About the
Government Commercial Function

About The GCF

Join us on the journey to be the best Commercial Function in the UK. We work across a range of categories and sectors as well as providing deep commercial skills and expertise extending from procurement and contract management to market analysis and shaping commercial strategies to deliver great outcomes.
 
Whether delivering clean and secure energy or procuring the latest technology for hospitals, we are tasked with some of the most unique projects in terms of both scale and complexity.
 

At GCF we aim to be the best commercial function in the UK.

This goal is being achieved by transforming the commercial capability across the UK, the public sector buys goods and services worth over £300 billion pounds every year – from tanks and satellites to IT equipment and medical supplies.

Buying the right goods and services at the right time, right price and the right quality is crucial to delivering government initiatives and providing great public services. And we go further in public procurement, using our collective spending power to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits for our citizens.

Public procurement in the UK, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales buys goods and services from a large number of suppliers, from small and medium enterprises and social enterprises to large companies. We have commercial and procurement colleagues working across the four nations of the UK, all delivering great outcomes for our security, our environment and our public services that we all use.

GCF includes commercial professionals and colleagues from a range of functional disciplines that are all committed to making a difference to their country, getting value for UK tax payers’ money and finding solutions. 

The GCF are transforming public procurement, the Cabinet Office has announced that the Procurement Act 2023 will commence 24 February 2025.