Growth Hub to host tendering event for Stockport businesses

Do you know how to access and tender successfully for contracts in the public and private sector? 

Local authorities and businesses across the North West currently spend £6.5 billion a year on goods and services. Are you and your business seeing and winning your share in the tender arena?

You and your business could benefit; advertised and open tenders can provide a steady income and financial stability for qualifying local businesses. Many local authorities actively want to work with local suppliers, and are keen to encourage them to bid for contracts.

The Business Growth Hub has developed ‘Textbook Tendering’ to help businesses get to grips with the tendering process.

Stockport based businesses are invited to attend ‘An Introduction to Textbook Tendering’

Elizabeth McKenna, Head of Strategic Procurement at STaR (Stockport, Trafford and Rochdale Council Procurement) will demonstrate how to develop successful tenders.

Date: 15th March, 2016
Venue: Stockport Business & Innovation Centre (SBIC)
Broadstone Mill, Broadstone Road, Stockport, SK5 7DL

Please note, priority will be given to Stockport based businesses and places are limited.

To register your interest in attending the launch event on 15th March please ‘Book Now’ 

A one-day Intensive Workshop – 20th April 2016

Following the event on 15th March, Stockport Council and the Federation of Small Businesses will be a holding a 1-day intensive workshop

Led by industry experts, covering all the information, skills and practical support a business needs to qualify and tender for contracts with confidence, you will learn what a good approach looks like, help you avoid common mistakes and show you how to find and register for this kind of work.

Workshop – Tendering for Contracts, 20th April, Stockport Business & Innovation Centre – Find out more here

Two half day training workshops, one focusing on public sector contracting and one on bidding for business within the private sector. Choose to attend one or both, held over one day.

Private Sector – Delivered by Emma Jaques, of Onto The Page

Emma is an experienced, award-winning tender writer, who will deliver this session with the aim to help you to better understand and navigate your way through the tendering process. In this session you’ll be given real insight, from a procurement expert, into what does and doesn’t make a credible bid for contracts.

Public Sector

Delivered by the procurement team from Stockport Council, this session will focus on what the people devising and deciding on bids are looking for. This session will be ‘hands on’ taking you through a standard tender document utilising the Council’s e-tendering software ‘The Chest’ and will also go into more detail about where to look for public sector contracts that could be of interest to your business.