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Supplying Government is a new opportunities portal for lower-value contracts - supporting UK businesses to tender for government opportunities. The website at www.supplyinggovernment.gov.uk provides businesses and UK central and local government procurement professionals with information on the new opportunities portal for lower-value public sector contracts.

What is the opportunities portal?

It is a government-backed initiative to create a new portal that focuses on lower-value public sector contracts typically under £100,000. Developed by the Small Business Service (SBS) and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), it will enable all organisations across the public sector to publicise their lower-value contract notices on the portal and, for the first time, all types of businesses will access to them in the one place. Technical testing of the portal has commenced and services will be available from spring 2006.

Benefits include:

A wide range of lower-value opportunities will be publicised in the one place opening up the market to all types of businesses.
Buyers will have access to a wider range of goods and services from suppliers keen to compete for government business.
It will help procurement professionals potentially achieve value for money together with innovation in sourcing and purchasing.
Suppliers will find that it's the quick and easy way to source new business leads in the public sector.

This project is in support of one of the recommendations of the 2003 Better Regulation Task Force report on reducing barriers facing enterprises wishing to become involved in public procurement.

It is the first government-backed portal to focus on lower-value public sector contracts uniting buyers and suppliers in the one place.

Your Questions Answered: http://www.supplyinggovernment.gov.uk/questions.asp

Portal Guide: http://www.supplyinggovernment.gov.uk/pdf/portalguide.pdf