STAR Procurement (the shared procurement service for Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, and Trafford Councils) is inviting businesses to come and meet with them face-to-face to discuss opportunities at their ‘Meet the Buyer’ event at Hyde Town Hall.
The event gives businesses a great opportunity to meet buyers, commissioners, other contractors, and key decision makers. Attendance will allow you to network and build your knowledge in public sector procurement and you’ll have the chance to learn what opportunities are coming up, attend Masterclasses, introduce yourself and your organisation to key contacts and much more!
Tickets
Tickets are FREE of charge for admission, seminars, and workshops. Get your ticket now before the event is sold out.
Programme
The event gives you unprecedented access and a great opportunity to meet buyers, commissioners, other contractors, and key decision makers.
Attendance will allow you to:
- network and build your knowledge in public sector procurement.
- learn what opportunities are coming up in our contracts pipeline.
- attend Masterclasses.
- introduce yourself and your organisation to key contacts and much more.
Seminars and workshops
STAR will be hosting seminars and workshops sharing our knowledge and experience of how to bid for tenders and projects and will offer time for Q&A’s.
The workshops will include a range of topics suitable for those who have never worked with the public sector before all the way through to those who frequently work with public services.
There will be hands on support available including how to create your own account on STAR systems, so you have access to bid for our opportunities.
Social value workshops
Unique to this year is the opportunity to attend the workshops on Social Value. This will be an enabler for businesses to improve bids for tenders and know the specifics of what is required for each of STAR’s Councils, as well as the opportunity for you to share your thoughts and ideas.
Attendees
STAR’s Meet the Buyer event is aimed at all business sizes, from micro to small and medium, across our four boroughs and the wider Greater Manchester area.
The current stall and seminar hosts list.
Stalls
- STAR Procurement
- BURN
- Bloom
- Constellia
- CCS
- Eric Wright Partnerships
- Galliford Try
- Growth Company Business Growth Hub
- GM Chamber of Commerce
- GM Good Employment Charter
- North West Construction Hub
- Oxygen
- Real Living Wage
- Rochdale Sustainability Lead
- Social Value Portal
- Stockport College
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- YPO
Seminars and Workshops
- STAR Procurement
- Bloom
- BURN
- GM Good Employment Charter
- Northwest Construction Hub
- Oxygen
- Social Value Portal
- GC Business Growth Hub
- Real Living Wage
- Rochdale Sustainability Lead
This list is still growing as we have more confirm so check back to keep updated.
View our pipeline of upcoming opportunities.
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