We’re procurement leaders, bid writing and sustainability experts, entrepreneurs and, most of all, passionate small business owners who recognise the challenges businesses face when working with the public sector. Our experience means that we’ve been where you are now – we know how daunting breaking into the public sector can seem – trying to find work, win work and keep it can be exhausting and often demoralising if you haven’t got the tools in place to help.
Managing Director of Ignition Brewery, Nick O'Shea, explains how Go4Growth helped his business secure a bid to supply Lewisham Hospital with hospitality services, and Chris Wagner describes the benefits of working with Go4Growth from his perspective as Director of Procurement for the Trust.
20 June 2023
Deborah Gaunt, Corporate Procurement Officer at Calderdale Council talks about her experience working with Go4Growth and how engaging with small businesses and VCSEs is crucial to the local economy.
06 February 2023
Virtual
03 March 2025, 12:30 PM
The series of four lunch & learn sessions during March 2024 will look at how to navigate public sector competitions, breaking down what's included, how to interpret what's required and how to put together your response.
At this first session, we'll look at the standard selection questionnaire (SSQ) working through each section and giving an overview of what's required including things like mandatory and discretionary exclusions.
Virtual
10 March 2025, 12:30 PM
At this second session, we'll look at the specification, evaluation criteria and how to answer technical/quality questions.
We'll break down the structure of questions and overview how to relate your response back to the specification and scoring criteria.
We'll use an example from a previous bid set of questions working through how to structure an answer
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