| 09.00 |
Registration |
10.00 |
Chairman's
opening address
Peter
Howarth, CEO
SOPO |
10.10 |
The
Local Government Procurement Landscape
What
drives the value for money agenda in 2008?
Peter
Howarth, CEO
SOPO
|
10.40 |
Opening
up new opportunities
Getting
selected as a supplier
Bryan
Webber,
Corporate
Procurement Manager, City and County of Swansea
|
11.10 |
Tea/Coffee
& Networking |
11.30 |
The
Procurement Process Internal and External influences
Andrew
Maisey,
Torfaen County Council
|
12.00 |
Selling
to local Authority Consortia
Mike
Phillips, West
Mercia Supplies
|
12.30 |
Lunch
& Networking with Local Buyers/Fellow suppliers |
13.30 |
The
Sustainability Agenda/CSR
Alan
Aitken,
Carmarthenshire County Council |
| 14.00 |
Supplying
to Local Government A view from a business organisation
James
Fothergill, Head
of Public Procurement: Health & Local
Government, CBI Public Services Directorate
|
14.30 |
Tea/Coffee
& Networking |
14.50 |
Selling
to the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service
Helen
Rees,
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service |
15.20 |
The
Welsh Assembly Government’s XChange Wales
programme
– its impact on Procurement and Suppliers
Sam
Mazloum,
ProcServe Programme Manager,
XChange Wales
|
15.50 |
Top
Tips to win and Open forum Q & A
Peter
Howarth, CEO
SOPO |
16.00 |
Close |
Programme
may be subject to change |
