The UK Cabinet Office reveals plans for the creation of the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), in a move to centralise procurement services.

The move to centralise public sector procurement comes as departments succeeded in achieving significant savings in ITO from consolidation practices.

The new service would see the joining under one roof of multiple cabinet office teams alongside the Government Procurement Serviceas as part of a cost saving exercise to centralise services and increase public sector buying power.

The new CCS according to the Cabinet Office will: “work with Departments and wider public sector organisations to ensure maximum value for the taxpayer is extracted from every commercial relationship”.

The new service is expected to be functional by the end of autumn 2013.

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