The CMC Partnership and Buying Solutions

About the framework

The CMC Partnership consortium has been selected as a supplier on the Buying Solutions Management Consultancy & Accounting Services Framework Agreement (MCAS). This means that we are directly accessible to the whole of the UK public sector, offering any customer quick access to services, no financial limits and competitive pricing.

Buying Solutions is an Executive Agency of the Office of Government Commerce in the Treasury and enables customers to improve value for money and efficiency. The CMC Partnership provides services in the following areas of the Buying Solutions MCAS Framework Agreement:

HR Consultancy – consultancy advice on all aspects of HR and learning and development, including strategies, policies, processes and organisation development. Our capabilities range across the spectrum from restructuring and culture change to outplacement, performance management and employment law.
For more details on our HR and Capability Development services, please click here.
Programme and Project Management – a full range of strategic and operational advice on programme and project management, with expertise ranging from governance arrangements to portfolio design, risks, benefits and communications management, PPM office set-up, and project recovery.
For more details on our Programme and Project Management services, please click here

About The CMC Partnership consortium

The CMC Partnership is a consortium of privately-owned SMEs specifically dedicated to HR and PPM consultancy. We bring together quality of service, innovative and niche expertise, and lower rates than other large consultancies. Our consortium partners are: Alignea, Blue Alumni, CM International, GHK, Isos Partnership, ITS, KIS-Solutions, Koios, Method4, Richmond Group, The 10 Partnership, and Think First. Read more about our partners here.

Purchasing through Buying Solutions

If you are interested in our services, please email Tim Willott or call him on 01600 740215 to find out more about procuring through the MCAS Framework Agreement. Alternatively, see the Buying Solutions website for more information.

"Buying Solutions is pleased to have selected The CMC Partnership to provide HR and PPM consultancy through our new MCAS Framework Agreement. As a consortium of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) they will play a key role in helping the public sector to buy consultancy that offers value for money, quality of service and which complies with all statutory and legislative requirements. Buying Solutions supports the involvement of SMEs in the government marketplace as it offers wider benefits to the economy, including promoting competition and innovation in government procurement."

Buying Solutions, March 2010