Public sector purchasers looking to buy more goods and services from social enterprises and the third sector need look no further.
Our web-based Purchasing Guide to Social Enterprise & the Voluntary Sector, a free service to the Birmingham and Solihull social enterprise sector, is designed to meet public purchasers’ need for better market intelligence about what social enterprises are out there, the services they provide and - most importantly - the benefits and added-value of using the social enterprise option.
Using a unique 'enterprise profile', the Guide offers an unprecedented level of information about individual social enterprises and trading voluntary organisations in Birmingham and Solihull and public purchasers will be able to use the Guide to:
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Choose likely third sector suppliers and understand the additional social benefits of purchasing from them |
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Target invitations to tender more accurately |
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Identify service providers in priority areas (both geographic and service-based) |
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And meet the Government’s objectives of diversifying public service provision and other kinds of public purchasing |
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This is a free service for Birmingham & Solihull’s social enterprise sector |
To be listed in the Guide - and inclusion is free - you just need to download the entry questionnaire and complete it as accurately and as fully as possible. Return it as directed on the questionnaire and we’ll do the rest to add your profile to the Guide. Over the coming weeks and months we shall be continuing to promote the Guide, encouraging purchasers to test it and enterprises to join. Be part of this unique experiment in bringing together public sector buyers and the third sector!
The information-gathering questionnaire - entries in the Guide will be 'enterprise profiles' built up from this response  (255 KB)
The purchasing guide is supported by:
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Birmingham City Council has now issued voluntary sector commissioning prospectuses in three service areas. The prospectus in each case can be downloaded below:
· Voluntary sector advice services
· Housing services, including young persons' home options service, domestic violence, street intervention service, housing advice (single people at risk, day centre facilities, and housing advice for vulnerable groups.
· Planning and regeneration services, including engagement and support of homeless people, refugee support, supporting the transition of people with mental ill-health from social care to economic activity, and employment development within the Early Intervention Team attached to Heart of Birmingham PCT.
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