Outcomes

Meet the Buyer Tayside 2023 Outcomes

The Supplier Development Programme has published the final report for Meet the Buyer Tayside 2023.

Meet the Buyer Tayside 2023 was held on 21 March at the Invercarse Hotel in Dundee. In total, 445 suppliers pre-registered interest on the SDP website for the Meet the Buyer Tayside event. There were 268 actual attendees on the day. Of those, 185 attendees were from 144 unique Scottish SME businesses. Of those, 44 unique Scottish SMEs were based in Dundee, 20 in Perth & Kinross and 14 in Angus.

Meet the Buyer North 2020 Final Report

The Supplier Development Programme has published the final report for Meet the Buyer North 2020.

Meet the Buyer North 2020 was held on 2 September and was the first fully-virtual 'Meet the Buyer' type event that the Supplier Development has ever organised. The Scottish Government was a headline partner of this event. On the day, there were 825 actual attendees on the day, which was made up of 684 suppliers (from 590 unique businesses) and 141 buyers/exhibiting staff. There were 30 virtual stands, and through the 1-2-1 exhibitor meetings on the portal, we collectively achieved 11,000 minutes of video interaction. The post-event survey also highlighted that 90% of Scottish SMEs responding to the survey said they were more likely to bid for public contracts after participating in the virtual event.

All presentations and Q&A sessions from the Meet the Buyer North 2020 event are available on the SDP YouTube Channel.

Meet the Buyer 2020: Live Virtual Event Final Report

The Supplier Development Programme has published the final report for the Meet the Buyer 2020: Live Virtual Event.

Due to restrictions imposed by the Scottish Government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, the physical Meet the Buyer event was postponed from 2 June 2020 to 8 June 2021. However, on 2 June, the Supplier Development Programme (SDP) organised virtual activities to mark the occasion of what would have been the 12^th annual Meet the Buyer event.

"Responding to the Coronavirus Outbreak: What’s been your experience? Supplier Views" Final Report

In July 2020, the Supplier Development Programme, with the support of the Scottish Government, published a report on suppliers’ views from a survey on the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on Supplier Relief, furloughed staff, access to free online training and capacity to bid for public sector contracts.