Supply London is designed to provide flexible, relevant, in-depth support to your company to maximise your potential of winning new contracts.
Food sector relevance
Though the primary focus of the project is on how to win public sector contracts, the principles you will learn can equally apply to the commercial sector.
Why might you be interested in public sectors? Because public tenders for supplies and services do get advertised. These are example tenders that are advertised in your sector.
Supplies: Meat and meat products, fruit and vegetables, food and beverages
Services: Catering services for meetings, events and cafe services.
The boroughs of Southwark and Hackney, for example, recently tendered for cafe services this year
Programme Offerings
The programme is primarily designed for companies that have a turnover of more than £100,000 that have been trading for at least 2 years, and offers
1 to 1 support and assistance with bids and tenders- Supply London clients are assigned an adviser who is available to help your company with bids, tenders and Pre-qualification questionnaires
Workshop programme covering the following areas:
How to win new business, both in the commercial and public sector- content includes;
Where to find opportunities, requirements places on suppliers, the tendering process
Bid Writing Skills- icontent ncludes
How to select opportunities, how to prepare your bid and how to write with impact.
Pitching with Purpose- content includes
How to understand the brief, structure your pitch and give an answer that sells
Understanding your market and USP-content includes
How to define your market, understand and explain your USP
Effective Accounting-content includes
Casflow, sales v profit, understanding how the public sector will score your accounts
Understanding contracts, tax and raising finance- content includes
Negotating subcontract agreements, key clauses, managing disputes
Implementing a Quality Management System- content includes
What is quality, where to start and how to implement a system
Implementing an Environmental Management System- content includes
Why EMS is important, what should be included, developing your own EMS
Meet the Buyer events-To enable your company to meet with buyers that have specified an interest in sourcing new suppliers in your sector
Track record
From January 2007 to October 2009, Supply London assisted over 5000 businesses, ran over 230 workshops and events and helped clients win over £30million of new contracts.
In September 2009 we ran a bid writing workshop in partnership with The Food Network which received 100% excellent or very good ratings for the speakers. Comments from the day included " Wonderful presentations" and "greatly appreciated and very useful"
For more information
Please visit our website; www.supplylondon.co.uk or contact Samantha.Peart@pera.com to register
Supply London is funded by the LDA and ERDF and delivered by Pera
Project part-financed by the European Union
Catering Opportunity
The deadline for applications is: Friday 25th June 2010
The Mayor’s Thames Festival is a spectacular free outdoor celebration of London and its river. Taking place every September in the public spaces between the London Eye and Tower Bridge, the two-day festival is a vivid mixture of music, dancing, carnival, feasting, river races and street arts. It’s all about bringing people together and encouraging them to take part.
The Festival’s activity is not confined to one weekend, through our outreach programme we engage with around 10,000 young people a year to create work that is showcased over the Thames Festival weekend. The festival and its associated programmes are delivered by the Thames Festival Trust, a not for profit charitable trust.
Festival dates: 11 & 12 September 2010
Trading times: 12 noon to 10pm
Trading locations: Spread across the festival site from the London Eye to Tower Bridge. Trading sites are allocated at the discretion of the Festival Market Team.
Trading sites are allocated on the basis of the information contained within this application form. Please provide as much information as possible (including photos).
If you are accepted to trade at the festival your site will, where appropriate, be allocated to complement the Thames Festival event programme.
For more information go to: http://www.thamesfestival.org/traders/marketinformation/