Executive Told 'Smarten Up'; Fsb Report Says Small Businesses Are Shut Out of Public Sector Tenders
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THE public sector is going to have to radically overhaul its procurement practices if the Scottish Executive is to meet its goal of building a "smart, successful Scotland".
A new report compiled by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland, based on interviews with senior company managers, catalogues numerous barriers that have often shut out local small and medium-sized companies from public sector tenders.See the full content of this document
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Executive Told 'Smarten Up'; Fsb Report Says Small Businesses Are Shut Out of Public Sector Tenders
Paradoxically, many of the firms are ones in which government agencies like Scottish Enterprise have invested millions to help grow them in the first place.
The trade body has already met with enterprise minister Jim Wallace and las...See the full content of this document
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