Procurement Useful Links to other Web Sites

Business Link - Helpful advice can be found on the Business Link website

European Commission - Information and latest guidance from the European Commission.

TED - Tenders Electronic Daily. This site can be used to view OJEU contract notices.

Small Businesses - Information for small business can be found on the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)'s Small Business Service (SBS) website. The SBS has produced a guide for SMEs, Tendering for Government Contracts: A Guide for Small Businesses.

Voluntary and Community Organisations (including Social Enterprises) - information about the action plan to increase the involvement of the 'Third Sector' (voluntary and community organisations) in the delivery of public services can be accessed via this link.

South East Business Portal - Covers all 74 Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent Councils and is free to use. It is populated with current contract information, which will be added to and updated over time, and contract opportunities (including sub-OJEU [smaller than £144k total value]) for suppliers to view. Suppliers may register themselves on the portal in order to obtain alerts when a new contract opportunity in their area (business and geographical) is added to the portal.

How do you rate this information/service?