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
24 September 2024, 9:30 AM
There is lots of information and guidance being developed for providers and buyers on the Procurement Act 2023 and this will become more prevalent as the Act comes into force in October 2024.
As this event takes place a little over a month prior to the regulations being in place (28th October) we'll cover the main changes to areas such as:
Notices - what do the public sector have to publish and when?
Frameworks & Dynamic Markets - how do they differ from current Frameworks and Dynamic Purchasing Systems?
Debarment - What does this mean and how will it work?
Supplier measurement & contract management - Understanding the expectations from public sector to suppliers
Removing barriers for SMEs - what duties are placed on public sector to support accessibility of opportunities for SMEs
Social Value - What does the procurement Act expect or encourage under social value?
This workshop should be useful for both buyers and suppliers.
Virtual
08 October 2024, 9:30 AM
A deeper dive into public sector procurement processes for general goods and services, with practical examples of a typical public sector procurement. We'll look at how to work through the stages of a public procurement, including the standard selection questionnaire and draft responses on quality questions, social value, carbon reduction and maximise chances of success.
In this interactive workshop we'll draft answers to some sample quality and social value questions and score them according to the answers we write. We'll discuss our scores based on the specification and evaluation criteria and discuss any improvements we could make.
We'll go through some live examples of answers that have scored top marks and those that have missed out.
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