Government Procurement Service Website

CAB 309

From 2012

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Government Procurement Service website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Government Procurement Service.

Cabinet Office - Government Procurement Service.

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

For the Commercial Procurement and Relationships - Cabinet Office website, please see: CAB 332

For the Government Procurement Service Fleet Portal website, please see: CAB 369

For the Crown Commercial Service website, please see: CAB 333

Public Record(s)

English

archived website(s)

Open

Gathered from original website

Topics

Official publications

Future website versions may be anticipated.

The Government Procurement Service (GPS) was an executive agency of the Cabinet Office. Its overall priority was to provide procurement savings for the UK public sector as a whole and specifically to deliver centralised procurement for central government departments.

The GPS was originally created as the Buying Agency on 1 April 1991. On 1 April 2000, it became part of the newly established Office of Government Commerce (OGC) within HM Treasury. On 1 April 2001, the Buying Agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, Property Advisors to the Civil Estate and other units from the Treasury merged to form OGCbuying.solutions. The agency's name was changed to just Buying Solutions in April 2009. 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.

In July 2011, its name was changed to the Government Procurement Service.

In January 2014 the GPS merged with the procurement management from government departments to form the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).