Reforming Public Sector Procurement - Get Your Voice Heard!

6 January 2009

If you are involved in Small or Medium sized Enterprise (SME) or a Social Enterprise (SE) in Scotland, you are involved in the backbone of the Scottish economy. Scottish Government wishes to understand how to assist SMEs and SEs to collaborate in order to access more effectively the £8bn spent by the Scottish public sector per year.

Consequently they have commissioned a partnership of two independent consultancies, Wood Holmes Group and Accelerate, to listen to SMEs’ and SEs’ views, experiences and attitudes towards bidding for public sector work through working collaboratively with other businesses.

If you would like to take part, please contact Chaitanya Bal on 0191 2112990 or cbal@woodholmes.co.uk. You can choose between giving a highly focused confidential interview (face to face or by telephone, as you prefer) in January/ February 2009 and/or attending a workshop event in early March.

Through understanding your experiences of working with other businesses and the opportunities and barriers you may have encountered, we aim to provide the Scottish Government with strategies to enhance the effectiveness of existing procurement processes and support more generally for businesses like yours in Scotland.