{"id":59414,"date":"2015-07-20T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3861caf522ffa3cb93d57c1004710de0"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:34:04","slug":"news-story-ccs-delivers-5-9-billion-savings-in-201415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59414","title":{"rendered":"News story: CCS delivers \u00a35.9 billion savings in 2014\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Crown Commercial Service\u2019s first Annual Report and Accounts have been published today. CCS supported the delivery of \u00a35.9 billion savings for the taxpayer in 2014\/15. These savings were achieved through a combination of price and demand related savings on common goods and services, leveraging relationships with suppliers and spending controls.<\/p>\n<p>Further statistics and highlights for the year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend channelled through centralised arrangements from departments and public sector organisations including health, local government and education of \u00a315.1 billion<\/li>\n<li>Transitioned spend on common goods and services from seven departments, providing a managed service and managing 450+ contracts<\/li>\n<li>Provided advisory support to approximately 50 departments\u2019 projects <\/li>\n<li>Strengthened leadership and governance<\/li>\n<li>Improved capability and increased capacity \u2013 recruitment of highly experienced commercial specialists to deliver better services and superior savings for customers<\/li>\n<li>Supported departments in channelling 26.1% of central government spend through small and medium sized businesses by May 2015, exceeding 25% aspiration<\/li>\n<li>Successful implementation of new EU procurement directives 14 months ahead of deadline, enabling businesses to benefit early from the increased flexibilities in the regulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/crown-commercial-service-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015\">Annual Report and Accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCS publishes its first Annual Report and Accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}