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The 16 th annual Meet the Buyer National is set to return to Murrayfield Stadium on Wednesday 4 June 2025, from 9:30am to 3:30pm. Meet the Buyer National is hosted by the Supplier Development Programme and partnered by Scottish Government and Scotland Excel. Keep an eye on the Meet the Buyer event page for speaker announcements.
Only two weeks to go until the Supplier Development Programme’s seventh annual Meet the Buyer North event , on 11 September at The Music Hall in Aberdeen. The Supplier Development Programme is also delighted to introduce the first ever Health Zone at Meet the Buyer North, sponsored by NHS National Services Scotland.
The 15 th annual Meet the Buyer National event takes place on Wednesday, 5 June 2024 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Meet the Buyer 2024 Alongside headline partners, Scottish Government and Scotland Excel, over 55 exhibitors have already signed up to engage with suppliers on the day. However, all are welcome!
Private sector contracts can provide your business with the scope to supply a range of products, goods and services to a wider market audience, allowing you the chance to increase brand visibility and boost competitiveness. Public sector tenders are typically government-sponsored, which can include any form of central or local government.
As we’ll discuss, tender contracts are becoming an increasingly viable option for businesses to attract new suppliers and contracts. However, many businesses may not know where to turn when it comes to tender contracts. The UK also relied on the EU for supplying labour. Public sector tendering contracts have many benefits.
This commitment extends to their procurement and supplychain management, which is a vital part of sector activity. A shared SupplyChain Climate and Ecological Emergency Strategy has now been agreed by the Principals’ groups of both the University and College sectors in Scotland.
Ahead of Scot Climate Week 2023 , we welcome a guest blog from the Peatland ACTION project to tell us about the variety of supplychain opportunities and wider peatland restoration work. We will also be in person at the Meet the Buyer North event taking place on 12 September 2023 at Aberdeen Music Hall.
These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes. Tracker Intelligence is a great tool to help vendors precisely and easily negotiate the complexity of the tendering process.
This is crucial as businesses continue to be faced with supplychain and business challenges. A competitive and nimble supply base can assist organizations as they rapidly respond to challenges in cost and supply.
However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability.
in the first half of 2020 due to the explosion in global demand and broken supplychains have highlighted the key role suppliers play, as well as the critical need for effective supplier relationship management. Of course, Buyers’ time is limited. Tenders are an under-used source of information.
Additionally, this lack of diversity in supplychains can lead to overreliance on a few select suppliers. This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors.
Sustainability Focus: Many social value frameworks incorporate environmental sustainability, such as reducing carbon footprints or promoting green practices through supplychains. Ethical labour standards are non-negotiable, ensuring workers’ rights and well-being are protected throughout the supplychain.
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However, they could probably leverage their great buyers in a better way by having proper data delivered to them upfront and allowing them to identify the most strategic new projects. By bridging the gaps, Amrest could even start the tendering process earlier with a wider range of suppliers. Part of the Solution.
C SupplyChain Leaders” and digital platforms such as “CDP SupplyChain”, for example, are proving helpful in reducing supplier overwhelm and advancing efforts to achieve emission targets (see box on the right). Decarbonization will generate a significant increase in the amount of data buyers must manage.
Procurement and SupplyChain Leaders – to transform your SRM you need to understand your Procurement maturity (Beginner, Expert or Advanced), and what you are looking for from each supplier relationship. Steve has been involved in a vast number of procurement solutions and has run procurement events and won tenders.
Machine learning can also be used to improve the logistics of public sector supplychains , as well as unlock new models of public ownership of eg cars. It is difficult enough to have access to information on ‘live’ tender procedures.
If we want to tackle climate change, and if we want to have greener, cleaner, and more resilient supplychains, governments will need to buy things in a fundamentally different way. The same study found that about 40% of all emissions related to government procurement could be mitigated for less than US$15 per ton of CO 2 emissions.
The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Pa Goldbeck, Strategic Performance Manager, and Mary Niichel-Hegwood, Procurement Administrator, participated in an outreach event called “Meet the Buyers”, one of many vendor engagement outreach events the City is doing.
Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.
With the Tracker Intelligence tender alerts feature, you can set up real-time alerts tailored to your industry, so youre always in the know. Getting listed on Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) and framework agreements means buyers can award contracts directly to pre-approved suppliers. What are buyers looking for beyond just price?
For instance, a lack of clear, coherent tendering procedures or regulatory violations in the tender advertisement may affect the execution of government projects. Tracker Intelligence uses sophisticated procurement tools and integrates centralised systems, which decreases the time and effort needed for buyers and suppliers.
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