Brief

H/Advisors Cicero has been the public affairs provider to HP since 2018, supporting them to raise their profile in Whitehall and Westminster. We provide regular insight and analysis on relevant policy matters and support them with legislative engagement, as well as delivering a comprehensive meeting programme with key policymakers.

Strategy & Execution

H/Advisors Cicero supported HP with a campaign to ensure public procurement processes consider cyber resilience and sustainability. Our campaign included engagement with the Procurement Bill, a series of meetings with relevant government, backbench and opposition stakeholders, as well as message development and thought leadership pieces. We also helped organise a roundtable on cybersecurity in public procurement at the US embassy with senior policymakers and industry stakeholders.

H/Advisors Cicero also provides ongoing support across a range of policy issues that directly impact HP’s business priorities, including 3D printing and digital manufacturing, ESG and trade policy.

Results

Our strategic advice and campaign support have allowed HP to be actively involved in the policy discussions that most impact the business, as well as strengthening their profile with key policymakers. Through our procurement policy campaign, we worked with the Labour Shadow Ministerial team to table a series of amendments to the Procurement Bill that would bolster cyber security requirements. HP have also campaigned and successfully advocated for mandated and robust considerations of sustainability in public procurement putting them on a par with value for money considerations.

We have placed HP at the centre of the public policy debate on their key issues such as embedding sustainability and cyber resilience into public procurement and championing the role of 3D printing. We have also organised a number of high-profile political roundtables and events for them.

Tijs Broeke, Government Affairs and Public Policy Director at HP, commenting on Cicero’s work with HP: “Cicero’s ongoing counsel and support has ensured HP can proactively contribute to the UK public policy debate on business-critical issues”.