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Before joining the Home Office, Kate Carroll was head of the contract management team at the Crown Prosecution Service. In this role, she developed a central contract management team that contributed to savings of £1.4 million.
Soon after moving to the Home Office in July 2008, she was charged with getting a better deal on Microsoft software. By negotiating a change in the licensing position, she saved the department £2.4 million.
Carroll was also given responsibility as project manager for the IT services optimisation project element of the Next Generation Information Systems & Technology Transformation Programme. Her leadership and professionalism reduced running costs by more than 30 per cent a year, according to John Collington, the department’s commercial director, and her management “was very much the basis” for the project’s green/ amber rating on the Office of Government Commerce’s gateway review.
“Kate has marked herself out as being head and shoulders above her peers in procurement, let alone her age group,” says Collington.
