To promote and champion good practice, and theprofessionalisation of public sector contract management, the Civil Service is investing in training and accreditation - through the Contract Management Capability Programme.
This structured programme of training will help and enable you to manage contracts and third party suppliers providing servicesto central government departments, wider publicsector organisations, and local authorities more effectively.
Here are all the details of the programme, the courses, and all of the benefits they bring.
Added a new section on the document:Civil Service: helping you with managing contracts and suppliers - 9. Providing value
Replaced the following document with the latest version: Government Commercial College (GCC) User Guide
Replaced the GovComCollege User Guide for Wider Public Sector with updated guidance
Updated the course costs table in the document Contract Management Capability Programme courses to provide further clarity.
Added the documents: - Contract Management Training & Accreditation Foundation level: takeaway guide- GovComCollege User Guide for Wider Public Sector
Updated guidance and replaced supplementary material with the latest version.
Civil Service: helping you with managing contracts and suppliers guidance updated.
The following "Preparing for your Expert Assessment" and "Preparing for your Practitioner Assessment" contract management brochures have been updated.
Preparing for your Expert Assessment, Preparing for your Practitioner Assessment, and Contract Management Training and Accreditation Brochure have been updated.
Addition of 4 new documents to help learners.
Addition of 'Government Commercial College User Guide'.
Preparing for practitioner assessment attachment updated. Preparing for expert assessment attachment added.
Updated preparing for your practitioner assessment brochure and added link to contract management professional standards guidance.
Preparing for your practitioner assessment brochure has been published to the page.
Attached documents updated with more recent version and FAQs document removed.
Updated 'Civil Service: helping you with managing contracts and suppliers' and added FAQ's document.
Updated the mailing list URL in 'Civil Service: helping you with managing contracts and suppliers'.
Updated the help card attachment.
Added CMTA user guide to 'help card' attachment.
Added 'help card' HTML attachment as a placeholder for a guide being published on Monday 29 October. The system is live now and has a help button that points to this HTML attachment's URL.
Added 'Contract Management Training and Accreditation Brochure'.
We have added information on when the training will be available and how to access it. We have also updated the definitions for Foundation, Practitioner and Expert level.
