Crown Commercial Service

(asked on 31st January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of consultancy agreement business tendered through Crown Commercial Service Consultancy agreements went to SMEs in each of the last five financial years.


Answered by
Oliver Dowden Portrait
Oliver Dowden
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
This question was answered on 5th February 2019

The Management Consultancy Framework (MCF) agreements have been designed by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) to support the increased use of SMEs and a large proportion of framework suppliers are SMEs.

Since 1st April 2014, 10.05% of total spend through the following CCS managed commercial arrangements has gone to SMEs:

ConsultancyONE (RM1502)

MCF (RM3745)

MCF2 (RM6008)

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