On the 29th of November Fusion attended the Business Gateway roadshow at the Laichmoray Hotel in Elgin. This event followed the normal format of exhibitions, questions and answers and then informal networking. The venue was great with plenty of room for everything to take place. The questions and answer session included some pre-submitted questions and some time was spent debating public procurement. In Moray everything over £30,000 is put on the Public Contract Scotland site for tendering and for any spend between £5,000 and £30,000 the procurement team require 3 quotes with these going onto the website through their quick quote process. The Moray team also use the Supplier Finder service which enables organisations to put all their marketing information on the website. The Moray procurement team are encouraging the public sector in their area to look locally first and to get more than 3 quotes where possible.
Fusion queried the differing procurement arrangements between the Highland Council and Moray Council. The Highland Council have just raised their procurement level so now only tenders of £50,000 or more will be on the website with projects over £5,000 requiring 3 quotes. The differences are due to the discretion of the Chief Executive in each area who can set the council procurement policy. Given this session had started off about exporting Fusion felt it would be helpful to have procurement processes that were the same or very similar in Scotland before we looked at the process for exporting.
On the subject of public tenders Fusion is looking to develop it's skill in this area and Melanie is attending an Advanced Tender Writing workshop in March with a view to being able to assist member businesses with tender writing and also putting together consortium bids on behalf of members.
Fusion queried the differing procurement arrangements between the Highland Council and Moray Council. The Highland Council have just raised their procurement level so now only tenders of £50,000 or more will be on the website with projects over £5,000 requiring 3 quotes. The differences are due to the discretion of the Chief Executive in each area who can set the council procurement policy. Given this session had started off about exporting Fusion felt it would be helpful to have procurement processes that were the same or very similar in Scotland before we looked at the process for exporting.
On the subject of public tenders Fusion is looking to develop it's skill in this area and Melanie is attending an Advanced Tender Writing workshop in March with a view to being able to assist member businesses with tender writing and also putting together consortium bids on behalf of members.
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