AMTEC Consulting is one of just four suppliers to win a place on a prestigious new framework awarded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The Project and Programme Management (PPM) framework will provide a wide range of resource and expertise to support the strategic objectives of Defra over the next four years. This will include support for a number of organisational-level initiatives, such as new ways of working, improved approaches to policy-development and an increased focus on PPM - all intended to drive through and deliver Defra's organisational aims and objectives.

"Once again, a key Cabinet-level department is endorsing our PPM consultancy services," says Russell Wolak, AMTEC Account Director for the environment sector. "This award paves the way for a continuation of our long-standing partnership with Defra and its agencies. For example, one of our largest projects to date concerned the creation of Natural England, for which we provided extensive consulting and resourcing services to many aspects of this challenging organisational merger."

AMTEC is the only supplier to win all eleven regional lots on the new framework, covering London, South East, South West, East of England, East Midlands, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, North West, North East, Wales and Scotland.

The Defra award is the latest in a series of project and programme management framework agreements won by AMTEC during the last few years. Others include the Department for Work and Pensions, National Policing Improvement Agency, the Ministry of Justice and OGCbuying.solutions (Catalist).

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