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Industry News
DIO: Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has unveiled its plans for the future provision of facilities managementacross the English regions, and has begun inviting industry to submit expressions of interest in 3 new regional prime contracts.
CO: A new contract for Civil Service learning & development will be the first cross government contract to mandate that the majority of business is open to competition between other businesses in the supply chain, Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude announced recently.
Civil Service Learning (CSL), one of the Government’s new HR hubs set up to simplify HR & reduce costs, has recently awarded a contract to provide training across the Civil Service worth up to £250M to Capita Workplace Services, but has mandated that they must ensure a minimum of 51% of this business is delivered through an open and competitive supply chain.
The new style of contract is an innovative approach by Government to influence the number of smaller players that get access to government business and to ensure constant innovation & competition. The majority of the approximately 13,000 players in the learning & development market are small businesses.
DECC: The UK & France have agreed a raft of commercial deals and signed up to new agreements to cooperate on energy issues.
