Transport for Wales - Meet the Buyer
Cost: Free
Transport for Wales (TfW) is transforming transport. For people, for places, for Wales.
At our Meet the Buyer events, we’ll be presenting our exciting plans to ‘Keep Wales Moving’ and to engage SMEs in the journey.
The presentations will include:
- Introduction to Transport for Wales Rail Services and our plans to transform the rail network in Wales and its borders
- Overview of the support Business Wales offers to small businesses
- Talks from Construction Futures Wales, Business Wales and Sell2Wales
There will be small group sessions available with TfW, Sell2Wales, Social Business Wales, Construction Futures Wales, Supplier Champion and Business Wales to discuss details of packages on offer and learn how your business can prepare to bid.
You’ll get a taster of the free tendering support offered by Business Wales, which includes how to plan and tender for public and private sector contracts, how to get your business ‘Tender Ready’ and guidance on e-procurement.
What contracts are available?
As part of our commitment to the people and communities of Wales, we’re encouraging as many Welsh SMEs as possible to apply for contracts that will improve our railways (SMEs – fewer than 250 employees).
Over our 15-year contract, we’re investing £194 million on station improvements. This will be divided to work packages suitable for SMEs.
An additional £50 million of packages are available per annum for:
- Train Spares
- Lease or purchase of road vehicles
- Stationery
- Depot Track Maintenance
- Station Cleaning
- Train Cleaning
- Facilities Management
- PPE
- Rail Replacement Buses
- Staff and Customer Taxis
- Station Improvements Packages
- Oils and Lubricants
- Recruitment and Temporary Labour
- Uniforms
** Please note, we are unable to accept the following: **
No more than 1 delegate per business at this event
No Businesses with more than 250 Employees (SME’S Only)
If you are living outside of Wales but are intending to set up a business in Wales, you will be accepted onto our Workshops