Welcome

These specially designed Roadshows will deliver a range of useful topics for attendees.

Starting with an overview of how to get the best from the Supply2.gov.uk website and what to look out for in contract adverts, the Roadshows will also deliver an insight into the most important issues to consider when tendering. They will explain what to look out for in the documentation you receive and will detail those areas of evaluation that are critical to tendering success. Ideas for enhancing your submissions to make them stand out will be offered, along with hints and tips about areas such as presentations, site visits and debriefs.

It is also intended to have guest speakers from the public sector at each event, offering advice on other areas of the public sector market and providing helpful routes to market for companies looking to develop their business with the public sector.

These Roadshows are a must for small and medium-sized businesses, whether already using the Supply2.gov.uk service, considering signing up or just looking for more information on the public procurement market.

Supply2.gov.uk – an open market
where any business, no matter
what size or type, can participate

Supply2.gov.uk is the only official government lower-value contract opportunity portal. Created by the Government, it is specifically designed to give small businesses access to lower-value government contract opportunities (typically below £100,000).

Launched in June 2006, the portal has already advertised in excess of 90,000 contracts to SMEs throughout Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Buyers and suppliers are brought together for the first time, allowing the portal to achieve its aim of being ‘the first portal of call for lower-value business opportunities’.

As a result of this success, the portal is recognised by both business and government as a useful and effective tool, providing a route to help small businesses thrive and grow.

Who are BERR?

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) helps UK businesses succeed in an increasingly competitive world. It promotes business growth and a strong enterprise economy, leads the Better Regulation agenda and champions free and fair markets. It is a shareholder in a number of government-owned assets and works to secure clean and competitively priced energy supplies.

The Enterprise Strategy, published in 2008, featured a range of measures to boost the number of small firms competing in the public procurement marketplace. An independent review, headed by Anne Glover, CEO of Amadeus Capital Partners, will look at ways to reduce barriers that small businesses face when competing for public sector contracts and the practicality of setting a goal for them to win 30 per cent of public sector business within five years.