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West Dunbartonshire Council
provides a number of schemes to support new-start businesses, provides
assistance towards training. The Council is a partner local authority in
the Supplier Development Programme which aims to assist businesses in
bidding successfully for public sector contracts. It is a free programme
which provides assistance in tendering performance through free events,
a newsletter and website. |
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Glasgow
City Council’s Development & Regeneration Services
have identified developing the local economy is one
of the City Council’s key priorities. The Council is
achieving this through pursuing a pro-business
agenda and the development of innovative business
support projects, which seeks to remove constraints
to business growth and business start-ups. We seek
to assist local businesses to grow and develop into
competitive and sustainable employers of local
people.
Glasgow City Council is "home" to the Supplier
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Whilst
the public sector is a key employer in Dundee, the
role of the business sector in the city’s economy
must not be underestimated. Successful and
competitive businesses create the wealth upon which
the city can build a growing and sustainable future.
Therefore, improving the performance and
competitiveness of the city’s businesses and
encouraging enterprise is important for both job
creation and productivity growth. Linked to
employability and skills, the development of a
competitive business base will offer more jobs at
competitive levels of pay, encourage the development
of new skills, produce higher quality goods and
services and create the conditions required to
sustain the economy and offer full and fulfilling
employment. |
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Fife Council’s Economic Development and Procurement
Teams are committed to increasing access to supplier
development for the Fife business community. With
this in mind, Fife Council has become a member of
the pan-Scotland Local Authority Supplier
Development Programme (SDP). It is a business
growth initiative which will facilitate a range of
specialist business support activities targeted at
businesses who wish to consider procurement as a
means of growth or diversification and those who
wish to improve or expand their current
performance. Love Me Tender is an integral part of
the Supplier development programme detailing how to
get involved in Public Sector Procurement. |
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The Scottish Borders region
within South East Scotland covers over 1800 square miles of some of the
most scenic countryside in Europe. The Council's area comprises the
four historic counties of Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Peeblesshire and
Selkirkshire. These 4 counties contained a number of historic Burghs and
Royal Burghs, including the famous Border towns of Duns, Hawick,
Jedburgh, Kelso, Lauder, Peebles and Selkirk. |
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The Scottish Government
launched its "Enterprising Third Sector Action Plan"
in June 2008. It recognises the role that an enterprising third sector
can play in meeting the Scottish Government’s purpose of creating a more
successful country with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish
through increasing economic growth.
One area that the third
sector is increasingly active in is in generating income by selling
their services, often by competitive tender, to public and private
sector. This is an activity the Scottish Government is keen to support
and develop.
To achieve
self-sustainability through earned income many third sector
organisations will need to improve their understanding of procurement
processes and their tender writing skills to increase their chances of
bidding successfully for business.
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