Procurement News, Opinions and Latest Market Leads

  The all-new Tracker GovSpend Report is finally here, and if you’re in the market to win more public sector contracts, this is the one for you. Awash with meticulously analysed public sector spend data and aligned with market leading insight, GovSpend provides the ‘need-to-knows’ on three key areas: Market opportunity – ‘the money making’ […]

Business sustainability has an average of 2,400 monthly searches in the UK while the keyword phrase ‘green business’ receives an average monthly search total of 1,900, up 19% year-on-year. In this article, we take a look at the number of benefits to going green for your business. What do the experts say about going green? […]

  In recent years, as the world’s attention has turned to sustainability, the concept of a smart city has positioned itself as a very plausible, fitting solution. As Forbes journalist Francois Laborie wrote in 2021: “technology enables the development of new products and services that use less energy, chemicals and water, and reduce waste from […]

A development partner is being sought by Homes England and Network Rail for one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK. York Central is a 45-hectare mixed-use scheme, which will see the creation of 2,500 homes and more than 800,000sq ft of commercial space adjacent to York Railway Station. Once developed, the site will […]

“A thriving business feeds on generating engagement,” wrote Goran Paun in his 2020 Forbes article, Build a Brand: Why A Digital Presence Matters. There are few things more important in business that connecting with consumers and remaining relevant. The question is, how do you do that? Well, in the modern world we live in, mostly, […]

Across the UK, as central and devolved governments make decisions regarding the future of mask wearing, testing and so forth, millions of employees have returned to the office on a full-time basis but a large proportion of workers now find themselves working in a hybrid fashion. According to a McKinsey survey, roughly one in three […]

The world of procurement is often tricky. It involves choosing one appropriate candidate, ultimately benefiting them, while rejecting and disadvantaging others. That said, it isn’t just the businesses that are picked which will profit from winning the contracts, it’s also their supply chain, their local economy, fellow businesses, families, and so on. The above is […]

A Prior Information Notice (PIN) has been published for an upcoming £6bn public sector framework from Southern Construction Framework (SCF). SCF is a leading construction procurement framework delivered by the public sector for the public sector in the South of England. Kicking off with a supplier information event on 12th April, the latest PIN advises […]

Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has powered into Poland, after securing the contract for a major offshore windfarm development. ODE used the General Export Facility from UK Export Finance (UKEF), gaining a €900,000 package financed by HSBC UK. HSBC UK and UKEF’s support provided working capital benefit by bridging the cash flow gap caused by […]

Brexit has dramatically changed the UK import and export dynamic. Pre-Brexit trade predictions estimated a 15% decline in UK imports and exports. However, several factors skewed this outcome. First, UK goods trade to the EU fell by more than 30% at the start of 2020 (Compared to 2019) and didn’t recover. The extended transition period […]