Intend News Updates

In the year to come CDS will continue to develop co-operative working and succession planning in Scotland. Intend are proud to be involved in this work offering one to one expertise to a range of companies seeking to bid as a consortium through Scottish Enterprise...

The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Bill introduces a 'sustainable procurement duty' for all contracting authorities. Buyers in a local Council for example will be required to consider how their procurement might benefit the social, economic or environmental wellbeing...

This will involve the potential delivery of tender related training through the Supplier Development Programme (SDP) on a wide range of topics. Some of the courses that will be covered include: Introduction to working with the Public SectorUsing Public Contracts...

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...

Healthy Working Lives have helped develop the "Health Profits" guide which contains a wealth of information and practical tools to support the development of good health in the workplace. The 3 main sections cover health and safety legal responsibilities, how to...

Healthy Working Lives have helped develop the "Health Profits" guide which contains a wealth of information and practical tools to support the development of good health in the workplace. The 3 main sections cover health and safety legal responsibilities, how to...

The Certificate of Work Readiness provides young people with a qualification which includes a quality work experience placement along with classroom based learning. This practical step taken by the Chamber of Commerce network in partnership with Skills Development...

Hub South West is starting work on the construction of three state-of-the-art community health centres for NHS Lanarkshire. More details on these  £45million contracts are provided in the April hub newsletter along wtih information on a series of supply chain events,...

Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Enterprise, with a Scotland wide remit to support the growth of co-operative enterprises across Scotland.    Co-operatives are businesses, owned and controlled by their members, set up to...