Co-operative Development Scotland (part of Scottish Enterprise) can provide funding and expertise to help SMEs form a co-operative consortium company for joint tendering – and it can be done in less than 3 days!
Many SMEs cannot bid for larger public sector tenders because they lack capacity or geographic coverage. Collaborating with others for a joint bid sounds like a simple solution, so why aren’t more small businesses doing this?
Please help us understand some of the barriers that are preventing SMEs from collaborating for tenders by completing this 5 minute survey:
