The UK’s small business owners are going to the polls on the 5th May 2016 to vote in major elections in London, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, as well as local elections in England and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Mike Cherry, National Chairman for the Federation of Small Businesses, said: “FSB members have engaged with […]
Through the Progeny Maritime Research Framework the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is seeking suppliers to help build and sustain UK maritime science and technology (S&T) expertise. In March 2016, Dstl held an industry day for potential suppliers to find out more about the Progeny Maritime Research Framework procurement requirements. The event, attended by […]
Innovative businesses showcase efforts to meet challenges facing the energy sector at this year’s All Energy conference. More than 25 innovative businesses working in the energy sector and supported by Innovate UK and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) are showcasing their technologies to potential customers, partners and investors at the 2016 All […]
The Crown Commercial Service has launched a vehicle telematics agreement to help the public sector improve fleet safety and efficiency. This brand new agreement has been developed to help organisations manage their fleets more effectively by improving safety and efficiency through the use of telematics technology. Telematics enable fleet managers to monitor things like fuel […]
A new contract to manage the Ministry of Defence’s fleet of lease and hire vehicles will target savings of £100 million. It follows the Defence Secretary’s instruction last year that the cost of vehicle hire was reviewed and reduced. The £47 million contract has been awarded to Babcock. The company manage the so called ‘white […]
Credits is partnering with Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, to deliver Blockchain-as-a-Service to UK public sector organisations. The Credits platform enables organisations to quickly and easily build robust blockchains that address the challenges of establishing provenance, authentication and reconciliation faced by many industry sectors, including central and local government as well as other public sector bodies. […]
A unique £1bn housing delivery fund has been launched by Kier Living, The Cheyne Social Property Impact Fund (managed by UK-based investment manager Cheyne Capital) & The Housing Growth Partnership (a joint venture between the HCA and Lloyds Banking Group) with ambitions to help the public sector to build 10,000 new homes across the UK. […]
Dundee City Council and the Dundee Partnership have announced the approval of almost £2 million of EU money from the European Social Fund, to support jobless people into work. The funds will be used to support people looking for work, who have been unemployed for some time, or never worked and will help them not […]
Conditions for the UK’s small and medium-sized (SME) businesses stabilised over the past quarter, according to the latest CBI Quarterly SME trends survey, after deteriorating in the previous quarter. The survey of 441 firms reported that total new orders and new domestic orders edged up slightly in the three months to April, while export orders […]
Today sees the first tenants to access housing through Grampian Housing Association’s new choice based lettings system, at Osprey Heights, Inverurie. The Association joined Homehunt North East Scotland (NES) in March to give applicants more choice about where they would like to live. The properties are also the first to be supplied in the North […]
