Meet the “Real” Buyer – South Lanarkshire

This is an opportunity for business to speak to the actual South Lanarkshire Buyers who will commission contracts and be involved in identifying potential companies invited to tender, in other words the REAL buyer!!!

Buyers from all South Lanarkshire Council departments will be represented.  There will also be representatives from some of the large Tier 1 construction companies South Lanarkshire Council will be working with.

Confirmed exhibitors include:

Finance and Corporate - Health & Safety
Education Resources - Education
Social Work
Housing & Technical - Property
Housing & Technical - Building Services
Finance and Corporate - IT
Community & Enterprise - Fleet & Environmental
Community & Enterprise - Roads
Community & Enterprise - Facilities & Grounds
South Lanarkshire Leisure - Leisure
SLC Economic Development
Business Gateway
Supplier Development Programme
Hub South West
Lanarkshire Chamber of Commerce
Scotwest Credit Union
JM Anderson (Tier 1 contractor)
CITB
Public Contracts Scotland
Construction Scotland Innovation Centre
Morgan Sindall (Tier 1 contractor)
Federation of Small Business
Kiers (Tier 1 contractor)
Scotland Excel
Healthy Working Lives

This is an excellent opportunity for you to find out what South Lanarkshire Council will be buying over the next two years and how you can get yourself in a position to bid for these contracts.

The following workshops will be available throughout the day, these are aimed at making sure you are ready to tender to work with us.

Workshops

10:15 am - Opening Address from Councillor Collette Stevenson, Depute Provost of South Lanarkshire Council.

10:30 am repeated at 1:00 pm - "Talking Tenders" with Kenny Govan,  Procurement Category Manager at South Lanarkshire Council.

11:00 am repeated at 1:30 pm - Tender Support and Using Public Contract Scotland (PCS) with Gillian Cameron & Fran Goldie at the Supplier Development Programme.

11:30 am repeated at 2:00 pm - Scotland Excel Framework Opportunities with Peter Killiard, Senior Procurement Specialist at Scotland Excel.

12:00 pm repeated at 2:30 pm - Supply Chain Opportunities with Gordon Hunter, Supply Chain Development Manager at Hub South West.

Please be aware there is very limited parking for this event, however Hamilton West train station is a 5 minute walk away.

Larger businesses and those based outside of Scotland are welcome to attend this event. If you are not a Scottish based SME or third sector organisation please register using the link below.