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Glasgow to host event outlining community benefits and opportunities of Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal

15 Jan 2016: The £1.13billion Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal will deliver tens of thousands of jobs over the next few decades, but also a great deal of community benefit, and a series of free events will give businesses involved or interested in City Deal contracts more detail

How to sell digital outcomes, specialists and user research services to government on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.

14 Jan 2016: Public sector organisations, including agencies and arm’s length bodies, use the Digital Marketplace to find cloud-based services, specialists who can work on digital projects and physical data centre space. If you want to supply any of these things to government, you need to apply to be on the relevant framework.

Scottish SMEs rates relief scheme to remain in place into 2017

11 Jan 2016: The Scottish government has announced that its Small Business Bonus Scheme (SBBS), which offers discounted rates for eligible small businesses, will continue through the year and into 2017.

New changes to the value of contracts required to be advertised in the Official Journal of the European Journal (OJEU).

5 Jan 2016: The European Commission has announced the new thresholds for European procurement for the period from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2017. Public contracts with an estimated value exceeding these thresholds must, in principle, follow the European procurement process according to the applicable regulations.