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Office of Government Commerce OGC information includes Supplier Management and Supplier Relations, Code of Good Practice, SMEs doing business with Government and Encouraging Competition. For more information visit: www.ogc.gov.uk
HM Revenue and Customs Inland Revenue information includes Suppliers Guide to selling to the Inland Revenue, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Contracts in Place, Terms and Conditions and Working with other Departments. For more information visit: www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/supguide.htm
The Home Office information includes Changing the way we buy Goods and Services, Standard Terms and Conditions and Information for Suppliers. For information visit: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/inside/org/procurement/index.html
The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform DBERR information includes Framework Contracts, A Short Guide to Buying, EC Services and Supplies Directives, A Guide for Suppliers and Contract Awards. For more information visit: www.dti.gov.uk/about_dti_procurement.html
The Department of Health (DH) provides information about purchsasing and tenders within DH and the NHS, and also serves as a guide for submitting proposals; for research and developemnt, and covers public private partnerships (PPP), whose two main areas are the private finance initative (PFI) and NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT). For more information visit: www.dh.gov.uk/ProcurementAndProposals/fs/en
SIMAP aims to support an effective Single Market by encouraging suppliers and contracting entities to adopt best practices and use electronic commerce and information technology to provide all the information needed to deliver value for money in public procurement. For more information visit: http://simap.eu.int/index_en.html
Guidestar UK is an independent charity established in 2003 with the aim of promoting the UK's voluntary and community sector. For more information visit: www.guidestar.org.uk/
Supplying Government This site, produced by OGC and Business Link, gives advice to businesses on selling products and services to Government in England, including an introduction to the Government Procurement Code of Good Practice, contact points in Government organisations, where to find advertised contract opportunities and contact details and links to equivalent sites in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. For more information visit: supply2.gov.uk/
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain. Its mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled. HSE currently has a number of centrally negotiated contracts in place for goods and services and also has a number of other contracts for services such as research. For more information visit: www.hse.gov.uk/sellingtohse/index.htm
Procurement Information for Parliament If you are interested in finding information about the procurement arrangements for Parliamentary contracts, please use the following links. House of Commons (Central Procurement Office) House of Lords (House of Lords Procurement Officer). For more information visit: www.parliament.uk/site_information/procurement.cfm
The websites linked to below do not feature supplier focused information but may contain information of general interest to suppliers.
The Appeals Service arranges and hears appeals on decisions on Social Security, Child Support, Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, Vaccine Damage, Tax Credit and Compensation Recovery, Child Tax Credit and Pensions Credit. The Appeals Service consists of two distinct bodies within a single organisation. The first is a tribunal non-departmental public body with responsibility for the judicial functioning of appeals tribunals. It is headed by the President of appeals tribunals. The second is an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions. At the head of the agency, with responsibility for the administration of appeals (delegated to him by the Secretary of State), is the Chief Executive. For more information visit: www.appeals-service.gov.uk/
The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. We are totally independent of Government. We audit the accounts of all Government departments and agencies as well as a wide range of other public bodies, and report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which Government bodies have used public money. For more information visit: www.nao.org.uk/
HM Revenue and Customs is a Government department with responsibility for collecting billions of pounds in revenue each year in VAT, other taxes and customs duties. We also have a vital front-line role in protecting our society from illegal imports of drugs, alcohol and tobacco smuggling and tax fraud. For more information visit: www.hmrc.gov.uk/
The Pension Service The Government has set up The Pension Service, which is part of the Department for Work and Pensions. It has been set up to improve the service you receive, whether you are already a pensioner or are planning for your retirement, no matter how far off it might be. For more information visit: www.thepensionservice.gov.uk
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) was created in June 2001 * to drive forward the Government's programmes on the environment, food and rural affairs. We work for the essentials of life - food, air, land, water, people, animals and plants. Our remit is the pursuit of sustainable development - weaving together economic, social and environmental concerns. For more information visit: www.defra.gov.uk/
The Child Support Agency is part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). To find out more about the Child Support Agency, go to the charter in the leaflets section. The Child Support Agency is responsible for running the child support system. Our business is to assess, collect and pay child support maintenance, ensuring that parents who live apart meet their financial responsibilities to their children. For more information visit: www.csa.gov.uk/
The UK Debt Management Office (DMO), was established on 1 April 1998. The DMO's brief is to carry out the Government's debt management policy of minimising financing costs over the long term, taking account of risk, and to manage the aggregate cash needs of the Exchequer in the most cost-effective way, in both cases consistently with the objectives of monetary and any wider policy considerations. For more information visit: www.dmo.gov.uk/
The Disability and Carers Directorate (DCD) supports disabled people and their carers, whether or not they are able to work. The directorate is responsible for providing an efficient, reliable and considerate system of Disability Benefits, and for all disability civil rights issues. For more information visit: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/discare/ For more in depth information on disability legislation, policy and public consultations visit www.disability.gov.uk You can get information about disability rights and the work of the Disability Rights Commission from www.drc-gb.org
The Rent Service is an Executive Agency of the Department for Work and Pensions. The agency was established in 1999 and is responsible primarily for rental valuations for housing benefit purposes, providing guidance to local authorities and carrying out rental valuations. For more information visit: www.therentservice.gov.uk/
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ODPM's responsibilities for local and regional Government, housing, planning, fire, regeneration, social exclusion and neighbourhood renewal put the Office at the heart of the Government's ambition to create sustainable communities for all. Our aim is to create prosperous, inclusive and sustainable communities for the 21st century - places where people want to live - that promote opportunity and a better quality of life for all. For more information visit: www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_control/documents/homepage/odpm_home_page.hcsp