2021 Report details for project: Commercial Capability Expansion Programme

Project name Commercial Capability Expansion Programme - there are 5 reports for this project: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Report year 2021 (data is from March 2021)
Category Transformation - see all reports for this category
Description: The original Commercial Capability Programme successfully established the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) - a single central employer of several hundred Commercial Specialists (Grade 6 and above) for central government departments. The Civil Service Board has endorsed proposals that commercial capability building interventions should be extended to Wider Government Bodies (WGBs), Grade 7 commercial professionals within central government and training and accreditation developed and delivered to the Civil Service contract management community. The Commercial Capability Expansion Programme has been established to impact these new target populations deeper within the Civil Service and more broadly across the Public Sector.
DCA (RAG) Amber
DCA text: Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating decreased from Amber/Red to Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors: Following the IPA Assurance Review in March 2020, our programme Delivery Confidence Assessment (DCA) improved to Amber/Green. The Review Team found the programme has had significant success to date. Impacted by Covid-19, particularly having to virtualise all training and accreditation services, we downgraded to Amber in August 2020. Given the pause to services, in November 2020 we received Civil Service Board's full endorsement for a 12-month programme extension.
Start date 2017-04-01
End date 2023-03-31
Schedule text Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the project's end-date increased from 31 March 2020 to 31 March 2023 This is primarily due to the following factors: The primary external factor impacting our programme has been Covid-19, due to: having to stand down face-to-face training and accreditation and develop new, virtual offers; redeploying programme resources to Covid-19 response work in Q1-Q2; and factoring competing priorities faced by departments and WGBs into our planning. Given the pause to services we received Civil Service Board's full endorsement for a 12-month programme extension to 2023. This allows more time to reengage with target populations and stand up virtual commercial and contract management assessments. As our focus remains on effective demand planning and virtualising services to meet the targets for the remaining projects, our confidence in the achievability of these targets has increased.
Baseline £6.05m
Forecast £5.15m
Variance -15.00%
Variance text: The budget variance exceeds 5%. The budget variance was caused by: a) The Covid-19 pandemic which affected the delivery of business as usual activities (e.g., the pausing of all our face-to-face services and operating at a significantly reduced level for the first half of the 2020/21 financial year. This led to lower cost than expected being spent as several teams virtualised their services during this period and, b) Efficiencies gained via less spending on operational activities.
Whole Life Cost £18.58m
WLCost text: Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the projects Baseline Whole Life Cost increased from £11.70m to £18.58m. This is primarily due to the following factors: Compared to Q2 2019/20 the programme's Baseline Whole Life Cost increased from £11.70m to £18.58m. This is primarily due to additional funding received in the 2020/2021 financial year from the Cabinet Office's Accelerator Fund and a one-year, one-off £3m central funding from CO/HMT to improve the capability of contract management across government. This fund was used to cover the costs of delivering contract management courses including funding for attendees from government departments to attend the Practitioner and Expert level courses.
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Sourcefile IPA_2021.csv

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