{"id":71888,"date":"2016-07-01T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=493e45c506bb1d8445a5cc84967a41e8"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:34:02","slug":"news-story-ccs-shortlisted-for-inclusive-procurement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71888","title":{"rendered":"News story: CCS shortlisted for Inclusive Procurement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> has been shortlisted for the Inclusive Procurement Award from Minority Supplier Development United Kingdom (MSDUK), one of the UK\u2019s leading organisations for driving inclusive procurement.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognises <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr>\u2019s efforts in creating an inclusive supply chain and ensuring engagement with ethnic minority-led businesses and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> was nominated for this prestigious award due to our pioneering work in opening up government opportunities to small businesses, charities and voluntary organisations.<\/p>\n<p>This was achieved through implementing a range of measures to make becoming a government supplier more attractive, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>introducing 30 day payment terms to ensure suppliers and subcontractors are paid promptly<\/li>\n<li>removing the pre-qualification questionnaire in low value procurements to help save small companies time<\/li>\n<li>ensuring that all supplier opportunities are advertised in one place, for greater efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cass Chideock, Deputy Director Small Business, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s a real pleasure to have the work <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> have done with small businesses acknowledged by MSDUK. In just 5 years the government\u2019s spend with small businesses has increased by \u00a31.9 billion, and that\u2019s partly due to the initiatives <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> implemented. I\u2019m proud that we have been able to help SMEs, charities and volunteer organisations get better access to  government contracts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The MSDUK 2016 awards will take place on 21-22 September at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, in Tower Hill, London.  Tickets for the award dinner are still available and can be booked through the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/msdukconference.msduk.org.uk\/\">MSDUK website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCS is among 3 finalists to be nominated for MSDUK&#8217;s Inclusive Procurement Award<\/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\/71888"}],"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=71888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}