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PQQ Training We are offering companies the opportunity to have bespoke in house PQQ training. The training is designed to enable candidates to complete PQQ for their own company and is a very practical course. The broad outline is: 1. Introduction and background 2. Aims and objectives 3. Why PQQ are used by the Public Sector 4. Prepari...

Bid Writing Experts   Two contractors are left in the race for the £1bn Sheffield highways maintenance PFI. Carillion and Amey will advance to the final stage of the bidding process, after Colas failed to make the cut. The 25-year contract covers improvements and maintenance work on 2,000km of road, 65,000 streetlights, and over ...

Public Sector Bids Schools move lands £400m blow on HVAC industry The slashing of the Building Schools for the Future programme will land a £400 million blow on the heating and ventilation sector. Education secretary Michael Gove last week abandoned the £55 billion BSF scheme, scrapping hundreds of projects at advanced stag...

Public Sector Bid Writing Schools move lands £400m blow on HVAC industry The slashing of the Building Schools for the Future programme will land a £400 million blow on the heating and ventilation sector. Education secretary Michael Gove last week abandoned the £55 billion BSF scheme, scrapping hundreds of projects at adva...

Tender Writing for SME Proof, if proof were needed, that SME can win tenders. This one was a little protracted and initially they did lose it. However, perserverence paid off and they have retained the bid. A ferry company which faced losing a service linking Devon and Cornwall is to keep the route for another five years, it has said. Ta...

A new windfarm is being proposed on South Lochs’ moorland on Lewis. Nick Oppenheim, who, in January, secured planning permission for the island’s first giant windfarm, now wants to build a further scheme on his private Eishken estate. He plans to erect six turbines, each 160 metre high, on craggy hill slopes to the west of Loch Mo...

Tender Fine Kier is challenging the UK£ 17.9 million (€ 22 million) fine handed down last September by the UK competition regulator, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Kier's argument to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London, UK is that the fine is discriminatory and disproportionate. The contractor has argued that it is large...

Some of the biggest names in contracting are battling for the £400 million contract to replace Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The UK’s biggest two contractors by turnover, Balfour Beatty and Carillion, are both understood to have expressed their interest in the 30-year PFI deal to design, build, finance and operate the new faci...

Rail Tenders The government drive to slash the fiscal deficit could reignite the debate over foreign control of major UK infrastructure as ministers start the sale of the £1.5bn High Speed One rail link this week – with France's Groupe Eurotunnel and Australia's Macquarie bank among those tipped to bid. The auction of the right ...

Bidding for Work Alastair Merrill told delegates at the SmartGov Live exhibition and conference that the new database will simplify the bidding process and lower barriers for small businesses bidding for Scottish public sector business. It is due to go live later in 2010. He said that a working group of business representatives from across Sc...