Crown Commercial Service: Small Businesses

(asked on 9th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of SMEs ability to bid for inclusion in Crown Commercial Service Management Consultancy Framework 2.


Answered by
Oliver Dowden Portrait
Oliver Dowden
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
This question was answered on 17th May 2018

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) believes that Lot 1 of Management Consultancy Framework 2 (MCF2) provides the primary opportunity for small businesses to bid, especially as we have used the new simplified bid pack, which reduces red tape.

Lot 1 has no threshold or restriction on the number of suppliers, and the lot definition 'business consultancy' is wide enough to be able to facilitate smaller engagements with micro-SMEs should there be the requirement to do so.

The role of our Crown Representative for SMEs is to encourage and support more small businesses to bid for and win government business.

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