18 years ago, Bramble Hub (then known as bramble.cc) began selling solutions via government procurement frameworks.

On 5 May 2006, the Specialist Solutions framework was declared open for business by OGCbuying.solutions, an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). In turn, OGC was an office of the UK Treasury. Bramble.cc was named as one of the suppliers on this new framework, which gave us a new route to provide our consultancy services to public sector clients.

This key moment in our company’s history set us on the path to developing the thin-prime model we operate today: we soon began to subcontract other suppliers, and eventually stopped delivering services ourselves. The OGC (which may have been best known for an embarrassing logo design) operated between 2000 and 2011.

Today, we supply our partners’ products and services via almost 20 public sector procurement frameworks from Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as well as NHS bodies.