Catalogue description Records of Supplies Division and successors

Details of Division within CM
Reference: Division within CM
Title: Records of Supplies Division and successors
Description:

Records of the Property Services Agency's Supplies Division, and predecessor and successor bodies, relating to the provision of furnishings and equipment for government offices and other official buildings.

Annual reports of The Crown Suppliers, CM 5; registered files concerning commodities, CM 9; Supplies: Unregistered papers, CM 13; registered files of the Transport Section of Supplies Division,CM 47; registered files of Supplies Division, CM 56; registered files of The Crown Suppliers, CM 59; and registered files of the Government Car Service (GCS Series), CM 67.
Date: 1940-1989
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Supplies Division, 1970-1972

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Supplies Division, 1962-1970

Ministry of Works and Buildings, Supplies Division, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, Supplies Division, 1942-1943

Ministry of Works, Supplies Division, 1943-1962

Property Services Agency, Supplies Division, 1972-1984

The Buying Agency, 1991-2001

The Crown Suppliers, 1984-1991

The Crown Suppliers, The Buying Agency, 1989-1991
Physical description: 7 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1987 The Crown Suppliers
Administrative / biographical background:

The Supplies Division of the Ministry of Works, then of the Ministry of Public Building and Works and the Department of the Environment (and their predecessors) was inherited by the Property Services Agency (PSA) in 1972. The Supplies Division of the PSA operated as a trading fund from 1976 and in 1984 was renamed The Crown Suppliers. In 1989 The Buying Agency was set up as part of The Crown Suppliers, and in 1991 The Buying Agency replaced The Crown Suppliers.

The Supplies Division was responsible for the provision of furnishings and equipment for government offices, law courts, consulates, hospitals and official residences not on the civil list. It also acted as a central purchasing agency for the provisioning of government departments and for fuel supply, letting of related contracts and controlling related stores. It was also responsible for disposal of surplus stores.

It sold a wide range of furniture, furnishings, floor-coverings, domestic appliances, electrical, mechanical and laboratory equipment, building materials, heating fuel and transport and provides expert design and technical services to meet the needs of the public sector. Customers of The Crown Suppliers included government departments, civil and military at home and abroad, local authorities, and nationalised industries.

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