26 Jan 2010
Free online public procurement course
A free online public procurement course designed to help smaller firms bid for the £220 billion of public sector contracts awarded each year has been launched.
The course, Winning the Contract, shows participants how to identify business opportunities to supply goods and services to the public sector, explains the public procurement process, and demonstrates how to submit tenders. It has hints and tips to guide businesses on the bidding process, and on where to find public sector contract opportunities.
Winning the Contract is a nationally available online training course which all businesses, regardless of size and sector, can access free of charge. It is part of a series of joint initiatives by the Office of Government Commerce and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills aimed at making the procurement market clearer and simpler.
For more information see the Learndirect website.
For the Government press release, see here.
