Businesses can find out how they can sell their goods and services to the public sector at a Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership seminar this month.
How to win public sector work will allow businesses to see real examples of how local companies have worked with the public sector to help demystify the process and help local businesses learn more about the extensive market of public sector contracts.
Keith Rog, head of Marketing and Development at GFirst, which drives Gloucestershire LEP, said: "The LEP's Business Membership Group has been doing a vast amount of work on local procurement to try and encourage Gloucestershire's biggest employers to buy products from county businesses rather than go to other areas of the UK or further afield.
"Public sector agencies are among the largest purchasers of goods and services in the county and many of them are keen to support local businesses, but because of their stringent processes many small and medium-sized enterprises don't know how to procure with them. This seminar is designed to help our SMEs learn about the processes they will have to go through to gain public sector work and make it easy for them to secure future work to boost their business and the local economy."
How to win public sector work will be held on Wednesday, November 28 at the Rickerbys LLP office in Wellington Street, Cheltenham.
Doors open at 8.30am, with the seminars taking place from 9am until 12.30pm followed by lunch and networking.
Speakers include John Little from Fluid Transfer on the subject of "How we were successful in winning government contracts", Imogen Batten from Gloucestershire NHS giving the public sector procurer's viewpoint, Matthew Wolton from Rickerbys LLP who will be helping businesses understand how public procurement works and Roger Walker from BWord Consultants talking about bidding in a consortium.
Places must be booked in advance and cost £25 per head, which includes lunch (£15 of which will be donated to the National Star College). To reserve your place or for more information contact Francesca Mathews on 01242 246444, email events@rickerbys.com or visit www.rickerbys.com .