The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government.
On 15 June 2010, it moved, along with its parent agency the OGC, to become part of the Efficiency and Reform Group within the Cabinet Office.
[2] In January 2014 the GPS merged with the procurement management from government departments to form the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).
[8] Its use was mandated from 4 March 2011, amidst some controversy,[9] for purchases by police authorities in England and Wales of commoditised ICT hardware and off-the-shelf software under government regulations issued in 2011.
[11] A current (as of September 2023[update]) example is the Crown Hosting Data Centres framework, which can be accessed by all central government departments, arm's length bodies and the wider public sector.