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Series

Property Services Agency and predecessors: Supplies: Commodities: Registered Files

Catalogue reference: CM 9

What's it about?

CM 9

SCP (Supplies Contract Policy) series files of the Supplies Division of the Property Services Agency (PSA), relating to contracts policy and its legal and financial implications on subjects such as selective tendering, standard conditions for...

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Reference

CM 9

Title
Property Services Agency and predecessors: Supplies: Commodities: Registered Files
Date

1940-1988

Description

SCP (Supplies Contract Policy) series files of the Supplies Division of the Property Services Agency (PSA), relating to contracts policy and its legal and financial implications on subjects such as selective tendering, standard conditions for government contracts, Supplies Division contracts, the effect of the 1973 energy crisis on disposal of surplus stores and placing of government contracts with non-profit making bodies.

The SCP file series was created in 1976/1977 by PSA. It contains many earlier files which were re-registered from the CH series of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works ( WORK 58)

Related material

See also works departments,

Separated material

Two SCP files are in:

WORK 22/425

WORK 22/558

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

SCP file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of the Environment, Supplies Division, 1970-1972
  • Ministry of Public Building and Works, Supplies Division, 1962-1970
  • Ministry of Works and Buildings, Supplies Division, 1940-1942
  • Ministry of Works and Planning, Supplies Division, 1942-1943
  • Ministry of Works, Supplies Division, 1943-1962
  • Property Services Agency, Supplies Division, 1972-1984
  • The Crown Suppliers, 1984-1991
Physical description

145 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1990 Department of the Environment

Accruals

Series is accruing

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4114/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

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Within the department: CM

Records created or inherited by the Property Services Agency

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Property Services Agency and predecessors: Supplies: Commodities: Registered Files