A Supplier Development Programme can be conducted to ensure that you meet public sector evaluation criteria with regards to environmental matters and sustainable development. This is becoming increasingly important for UK public sector. We have partners who can assisst you to reduce your CO2 emmissions and more importantly reduce business costs ( www.green2020.co.uk) plus put in place an environmental policy for your company at a nominal cost.

Supplier Development Programmes are important to bring you organisation up to the mark to win public sector tenders and have longer term business sustainablility in the present economic climate.

Bid support and business development support are provided on how to approach the UK public sector to take forward your organisation. We are particularly interested and keen to assist SMEs to complete Pre-Qualification Questionnaires successfully and following contract award to develop public sector business and revenue streams. With the right message to the right person at the right time. We have extensive public sector customer databases and contact details.

Gordon Brown has promised to assist the SME community to receive payment from Government Departments in 10 days. In response to liquidity issues and the funding crisis, the minister for competitiveness and small business, Baroness Shriti Vadera pledged to make government departments, local authorities and NHS pay smaller suppliers promptly. We can assist to facilitate to ensure payment to SMEs in 10 days through our knowledge of e-enabled payments, e-invocing and e-payment tools.

The Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform require to do more for SMEs as do other Government Departments including Regional Enterprise Agencies in a practical manner in leading by example through payment to SMEs in 10 days (eg Scottish Enterprise). We can do more for you the SME.