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Building Resilience – Interview with Josh Quigley, World Record Holder

Blair Young October 27, 2021

Resilience is a skill that most professionals require at points throughout their careers. An individual who has resilience in abundance is Josh Quigley, who completes various cycling challenges throughout the world. Josh had recently attempted the Guinness World Record for Greatest Distance Cycled in One Week – Unpaced in April 2021, however, this attempt was halted due to injury. Josh

£70m 5-year Adult Education Framework

Blair Young October 19, 2021

Published Date – Monday 11th October 2021 Deadline Date – Friday 19th November 2021 Opportunity Overview Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is looking to procure provision for Liverpool City Region residents using a proportion of its devolved Adult Education Budget (AEB). The Provider will deliver education and training provision for adults aged 19 and over that are resident in Liverpool

£25.2m 5-year Lifts Installation, Repairs and Maintenance Opportunity

Blair Young October 8, 2021

Published Date – Wednesday 29th September 2021 Deadline Date – Monday 1st November 2021 Buyer Overview Lewisham Homes Limited (LHL) was created as an ALMO in 2006 to improve housing in the borough. It is a non-profit making company limited by guarantee, and the LBL is the sole member. LHL manages c18,000 council homes in Lewisham, operates its own repairs

£30m 2.5-year Design and Delivery of Earthworks for the Global Centre for Rail Excellence

Blair Young October 8, 2021

Published Date – Monday 4th October 2021 Deadline Date – Monday 8th November 2021 Opportunity Overview GCRE Limited (“ProjectCo”) ProjectCo is looking to procure a suitably qualified earthworks contractor with experience of designing and carrying out large scale earthworks projects to facilitate the subsequent design and construction of the Global Centre for Rail Excellence (the “Centre”). The Centre is to

Introducing PAGABO Frameworks

Blair Young September 28, 2021

PAGABO is a specialist framework organisation building and managing modern, innovative framework agreements for a range of UK clients. As a preferred supplier to PAGABO, AM Bid takes a deep dive into what PAGABO offers and their views on various topical issues in the industry. PAGABO offerings PAGABO currently have nine framework agreements (focusing on mainly construction, built environment, facilities

Construction Consultancy in the 2020s

Blair Young September 28, 2021

The past 18 months have seen incredible changes within the construction industry. Brexit, Covid and other significant issues have resulted in fundamental changes in virtually every aspect of the industry, resulting in great uncertainty for companies wishing to survive and be successful. In this article, we will explore the world of construction consultancy and deep dive into some of the

Developing as a Bid Professional

Blair Young September 28, 2021

Working in the bidding industry is a rather curious affair. Up until relatively recently, bidding and tendering was never historically viewed as a specialism in its own right, with the vast majority of current professionals falling into bid roles from other professions. Without any industry defined career paths or skills development plans, this has regrettably contributed to a twin effect

Should you challenge a procurement decision?

Blair Young September 27, 2021

Almost all organisations have felt the pain of spending considerable time and effort tendering for an important public sector contract and then being told that the bid was ultimately unsuccessful. In most instances, there will be legitimate reasons for a bid failing but what should a bidder do if they believe that the procurement process was unfair and want to

£70m 4-year Construction Framework – Portsmouth City Council

Blair Young September 27, 2021

Published Date: Tuesday 21st September 2021 1st Stage Deadline: Friday 22nd October 2021 at 12 noon 2nd Stage Deadline: Monday 6th December 2021 at 12 noon Opportunity Overview Portsmouth City Council is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced contractors for inclusion on a commercial / industrial focused multi-contractor framework agreement. The framework agreement will primarily be used by the

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