About this Event
Meet the Buyer: WSP x Together Gloucestershire
Venue: Patch Gloucester
Date: 25th November 2926
Time: 10.00 – 15.00
Do you want to supply one of Gloucestershire’s biggest buyers?
Join Together Gloucestershire for their first Meet the Buyer event, connecting Gloucestershire businesses with WSP - one of the world's leading professional services and engineering firms.
This isn't a standard networking event. Meet the Buyer is designed to open real doors: giving Gloucestershire businesses meaningful access to WSP's procurement team, insight into their supply chain priorities, and the knowledge to position themselves as credible partners. . This is your chance to be one of their chosen suppliers.
WSP has been appointed by Gloucestershire County Council to provide a broad range of professional services associated with the delivery of transportation and civil engineering schemes across Gloucestershire. Following a successful first year of the contract, WSP continue to deliver a variety of project types including design of active travel, strategic major projects, geotechnical, infrastructure, and transport planning schemes. This contract is primarily delivered by local staff co-located within Shire Hall, Gloucester with support from other key services and delivery partners. WSP has a target that 80% of this work will be delivered regionally with additional support to provide additional capacity and expertise from other WSP offices nationally. Their subcontractors are a key part of meeting these regional goals.
Co-hosted by WSP and Together Gloucestershire, this event will include educational insights, networking opportunities, and exclusively for Together Gloucestershire members, the chance to meet one-on-one with the procurement team [limited spaces available].
Together Gloucestershire members receive priority access throughout the day, including 1:1 meetings with buyers and places in small group sessions, making this a genuine business development opportunity.
Not a member?
Together Gloucestershire is a business connector, driving Gloucestershire supply chains and connecting local suppliers with big buyers. Membership starts from as little as £20 for a sole trader and £80 for a small business, and includes our procurement connector, access to over 20 of the county’s biggest buyers, and free attendance at up to 12 Meet the Buyer events per year. Join today: https://www.togethergloucestershire.co.uk/join/
What WSP are especially looking to find suppliers for:
- Ecology / Environmental services
- Ground Investigation Contractors
- Printing supply
- Topograhical surveys / contractors
- Specialist engineering consultancy services
Agenda
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Arrivals, tea & coffee
🕑: 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Welcome from Together Gloucestershire and the Host Business Team
🕑: 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM
Hartpury University & College - engaging with supply chains
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Together Gloucestershire and the Social Value Ideas Factory
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Coffee & networking break & meet the exhibitors
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:00 PM
An Update from Togetehr Gloucestershire
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Insights on bid writing and procurement
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
1-2-1 meetings with The WSP team
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Group discussion and questions with WSPs Buyers
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Closing remarks, questions and discussion
🕑: 03:00 PM
Event Closes
Info: 1-2-1 meetings with The Hartpury team
Event venue & nearby stays
Patch Gloucester, The Forum, Gloucester, United Kingdom
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