The Office of Government Commerce is the British Government Agency responsible for UK best practice in procurement and project and program management. When it was set up in 2000 it had to decide upon its priorities in the project management area. OGC made a fundamental decision early on to stop work on an already extensive library of project management best practices. Rather OGC wanted to work on how to move these existing best practices to the level it wanted to influence, that of the senior leaders of projects, the senior civil servants and Ministers, to help them understand their role in their projects and policies. OGC chose one service initially, with which it felt it could succeed at that level. That was the service of Independent Peer Reviews of projects by practitioners. This has been very successfully applied by the best of private sector and OGC wanted to translate it into a Brand which became a product and service, free at the point of delivery for Ministers and senior civil servants who were trying to run projects. A big challenge of course was communicating with these clients without any trace of techno gabble that was frightening to them and would have meant the material would have been blindsided immediately. Not because OGC didn’t want a professional body of knowledge, but because it wasn’t going to help with the selected audience. OGC has been highly successful, learnt a lot on the way, and had a lot of fun and excitement in making it work. It is exciting to note that, in Australia, both the Federal and the Victorian state governments decided to proceed on a similar basis. We have applied the service to IT Projects, construction and defence projects all over the UK. The early projects generated success stories which were remembered and used in OGC marketing of the Brand.