Prime minister David Cameron today announced measures to make doing business with the government more transparent for smaller firms.
Small property companies will be boosted by Cameron’s assertion that 25% of all government business should go to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Cameron announced the launch of an online tool, called Contracts Finder, which will display every central government tender opportunity, with an e-mail alert facility so businesses know when new tenders come up.
Cameron said: “To reduce the time and bureaucracy in competing for a government contract, we will seek to eliminate the prequalification process for lower-value procurements, and we are introducing a straightforward questionnaire for the rest that you will only need to complete once for common goods and services, rather than resubmitting the same data every time.”
Nick.whitten@estatesgazette.com
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