Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) is a one-stop procurement shop for the UK education sector. As a non-profit and registered charity, CPC works to support and enhance the sector through its everyday work and its flagship Giving Back initiative, which reinvests in education through grant funded projects and purchases. Providing institutions access to professional procurement guidance, learning and development opportunities, plus premium consultancy resources, CPC promotes more than 80 compliant purchasing frameworks, saving institutions time and effort by pre-evaluating and selecting appropriate suppliers. Facilitating competition through the vast majority, CPC frameworks can fuel significant savings, to the benefit of a wide range of schools, academies, colleges and universities. Crescent Services is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC). Our 25+ frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems (DPS) have been specifically designed to streamline your procurement processes. We have a team of dedicated procurement experts in our consultancy team who can be available when time to fulfil your own procurement obligations is a challenge. Our services can save you both time and money. What makes Crescent Services truly unique is our commitment to donating all our profits to the Crescent Purchasing Consortium charity for the good of the education sector through our ‘Giving Back’ initiative. To date, over £2 million of grant funding has been designated for reinvestment, with £1.7 million specifically dedicated to providing grant funding to the education sector to support SEND, wellbeing, and absenteeism projects.

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https://www.thecpc.ac.uk/