Consultants Conference Sponsorship Opportunity

Newsletter - Public or Private?
I'm writing this newsletter just before doing a talk on tendering to a group of IBC members near Derby, and as I was preparing the talk it occurred to me that we sometimes draw too strong a distinction between public tenders and the buying process that goes on in the private sector. My experience has been that some large private companies run almost as complex and bureaucratic a process as major government departments. Equally, quite a lot of the public opportunities we publish are actually very small and involved little more than a letter and a short proposal.
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Demonstrating Quality
I've always been impressed by the depth and variety of experience that so many Skillfair members have, and that's been reflected in the testimonials, references and other information they've provided for quality checking purposes. We've now added a new feature to the system that allows members to display their key memberships and accreditations alongside the quality rating - so clients can see immediately who is 'Prince Qualified' or a 'Chartered Marketer' for example.
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Consultants Conference Sponsorship Opportunity

As bookings come in for our conference in November it's been interesting to see what a variety of backgrounds will be represented - from engineering to social marketing and HR to Housing we seem to have just about every variety of consultancy represented among the attendees already.

To keep the cost of the event down we're opening this year's conference up to sponsors who are interested in providing services to consultants. Sponsorship is reasonably priced at £400 and includes a stand in the conference area and 2 delegate places.

If you or a business you're in touch with would benefit from a presence at the event then please email or call us for more details.

There have been just under 200 projects and tenders posted since last week's newsletter so the following selection is just the tip of the iceberg.

Direct Client IBC Member Train the Trainer
Business Continuity and HACCP Trainer - Jamaica
national strategy of trade development for Djibouti (2010-2015)
Opportunity Support to local authorities on implementing e-petitions
VAT Consultant with Investment Gold Experience, London
Client Web Site Review of Respite Care , Wales
Feasiblity Study for Theatre Project, London
Core Strategy Retail Study , South West
‘Investors in People Facilitator Workshop Events' , Wales
Worklessness-Lessons from Behavioural Economics, London
Marketing materials and website maintenance, Eastern England
Client Web Site Technical Review of Cloud Computing for Research
Cost benefit study of Site Waste Management Plan regulations, Wales
Creative Community Seating Project, West Midlands
UNIX System Software Engineering Support - Solaris Focus
Strategic Review of Biodiversity Delivery , Scotland
Client Web Site Leadership in Public Service Programme, Wales
OJEU Revenues and Benefits and Business Improvement Contract, South West
OJEU Cultural Relations Through Sports Services
OJEU Health and Safety Consultancy and Training Framework
OJEU Disaster Recovery, North East England

While trying to fix another problem last week I wound up loading an upgrade of various browsers to my PC and discovered (probably rather belatedly) that many of them now include spell-checkers. If you're like me and consistently mistype certain words (marekting and netwroking are my favourites) then this is a very useful facility. Hopefully it will mean that future newsletters and blogs by me will be better spelt! You may well already have the right software downloaded as by default they seem to switch the spell checker off - for details have a look at the Skillfair blog - and feel free to comment if you have any other suggestions for improving the quality of online profiles and information.