CCS frameworks, now GCA
Crown Commercial Service became the Government Commercial Agency on 1 April 2026, and its frameworks carried on unchanged: existing agreements keep their legal standing and call-offs continue on their original terms. Suppliers still get on through the agreement’s tender, and still win work through call-offs. In the last 12 months, buyers quoted a GCA agreement number in 321 of their own notice titles — most often G-Cloud.
UK notices read · 28 Sept 2026
The organisation
Government Commercial Agency
Formerly Crown Commercial Service. An executive agency of the Cabinet Office, since 1 April 2026.
- Call-off titles quoting an agreement, 12 months
- 321
- Buyers quoting one
- 139
- Latest GCA notice on Find a Tender
- 24 Sept 2026
01/ In use
The agreements buyers actually call off
Counted from the agreement number buyers put in the titles of their own call-off and further-competition notices, over the last 12 full months. Each bar says how many buyers are behind it.
Titles only, excluding GCA’s own notices: most call-offs name the framework in the description instead, so these are floors. Names are GCA’s, from each agreement’s page, read 28 Sep 2026.
02/ The pipeline
What GCA is procuring now
GCA’s own procurements on Find a Tender, most recently updated first. A pipeline notice is the early warning; the tender is the way in.
Buyer names containing Crown Commercial Service or Government Commercial Agency, on Find a Tender. Stage is the procurement’s latest.
03/ What changed
From CCS to GCA
For a supplier already on a CCS framework, very little — for now. The facts, from GCA itself.
- 1 April 2026Crown Commercial Service and several Cabinet Office central commercial teams became the Government Commercial Agency.
- An executive agencyGCA is a trading fund and an executive agency of the Cabinet Office; the CCS Trading Fund was renamed by order in 2026.
- Agreements unchangedExisting CCS agreements and frameworks keep their legal standing; call-offs continue on their original terms.
- Same contactsGCA says points of contact and supplier relationship teams stay the same for the time being.
- Two rulebooksOlder agreements run under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015; newer ones, such as G-Cloud 15, under the Procurement Act 2023.
- One searchGCA's agreement search lists each live agreement with its ID, dates and regulation.
Sources: GCA, what you need to know, about GCA, the Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2026, explanatory memorandum and GCA agreement search, read 28 Sep 2026.
04/ In practice
How suppliers get on, and get work
- 01
Watch the pipeline
GCA often publishes pipeline and market-engagement notices on Find a Tender ahead of a new agreement's tender — the list above is the latest.
- 02
Register, then bid
Put your core supplier information on Find a Tender, then bid for the lots you can win when the tender notice is published.
- 03
Or wait for a reopening
An open framework under the Procurement Act, such as G-Cloud 15, reopens during its life so new suppliers can join.
- 04
Win the call-offs
A place is the right to compete or be chosen: buyers award by further competition or direct award, as each agreement allows.
05/ Questions
CCS frameworks, answered
06/ Method
How this page is made
Live figures
Agreements in use: UK public notices — Find a Tender and Contracts Finder — published in the last 12 complete months whose title quotes an agreement number such as RM6116, excluding notices published by CCS or GCA themselves. Iterations share the four digits, so every G-Cloud counts as RM1557. Titles only, so the counts are floors.
The pipeline: procurements on Find a Tender whose buyer name contains Crown Commercial Service or Government Commercial Agency and whose latest notice is dated from January 2025, newest first. Figures are cached for up to six hours.
Outside sources
- GCA, Crown Commercial Service becomes Government Commercial Agency — the 1 April 2026 change, agreements and call-offs unchanged, contacts unchanged, read 28 Sep 2026.
- GCA, About Government Commercial Agency — executive agency and trading fund, read 28 Sep 2026.
- Explanatory memorandum, Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2026 — the trading fund's renaming, read 28 Sep 2026.
- GCA, Search agreements — 96 live agreements, each with its ID, dates and regulation, and each agreement's own page for the names shown, read 28 Sep 2026.
- GCA, Network Services 3 and G-Cloud 15 — further competition and direct award; G-Cloud 15 let under the Procurement Act 2023, read 28 Sep 2026.
- Find a Tender and Contracts Finder — every notice counted on this page, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Framework
G-Cloud 15
GCA's open framework: every supplier, lot and date from the award notice.
Glossary
Framework agreement
What a framework is, how long it can last, and open frameworks.
Glossary
Call-off contract
How work is awarded under a framework, with or without competition.
Platform
Find a Tender
Where GCA's tender and pipeline notices are published.
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