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FCN Commercial

Commercial’s mission, on behalf of the FCN community, is:
"To define, develop and maintain a sustainable and forward- looking commercial marketplace for both traditional and digital forensic science."

This will be crucial in helping the FCN community meet the challenges of creating a sustainable and forward-looking commercial marketplace, a cohesive forensic science landscape, and of pace of technological change and increasing demand.

To achieve this mission, Commercial will provide products and services to the FCN community under the following four service headings and as described in more detail below.

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Strategic market management
Market strategy
Make / buy analysis
Strategic supplier relationship & supply chain management
Demand and capacity management
Strategic performance
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Scales
Supplier performance and stability
Supplier & contract monitoring
Contract compliance
Contingency planning
Business continuity & disaster recovery
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Knowledge
Knowledge
Advice and guidance
Knowledge base – model contracts and standard specifications etc.
Strategic lessons learnt
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Contract
Contracting and commercial
Requirements
National contracts / frameworks
R&D / innovation
Section 22A
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Commercial will also act as the custodian of the FCN Section 22 Agreement on behalf of all FCN members.

Read more about the Section 22A Agreement here.

Commercial in action
The Commercial team is the most established of the core FCN capabilities and is already having a significant impact upon the forensic marketplace. Three existing examples demonstrating the way that Commercial will operate are market stabilisation; digital forensics; and developing FCN operational services
Commercial case studies

Other FCN service pillars

FCN Science
Identifying and exploiting opportunities so members can meet future challenges by having the people, knowledge, skills and specialist tools and capabilities they will need.
FCN Science
FCN Quality
Achieving and maintaining quality service with efficient, standardised processes, and to act as a single voice with key standards and accreditation stakeholders.
FCN Quality
FCN Operations
Maximising resilience and effectiveness through the design, introduction and maintenance of new ICT platforms, tools, operating models and business change support.
FCN Operations