20 The government will not get value for money from its contracts until it improves contract management. The Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and major spending departments have recognised the scale of the issue and have responded accordingly. The major spending departments have launched significant change programmes to improve their contract management. The Cabinet Office is strengthening its role in supporting the commercial profession, managing collective spending on common goods and services and supporting departments. We believe this represents an opportunity to bring about needed change. Nonetheless, there is a lot still to be worked out. In our view there needs to be widespread change in the culture of the civil service and the way in which contractors are managed. There needs to be more emphasis on a commissioning approach, transparency over the contractors, use of open-book to align incentives and a targeted focus of the government's commercial capability.