Meet the Buyer 2024
The STAR Councils are coming together again on Thursday 3 October 2024 for a joint ‘Meet the Buyer’. This follows on from the success of the joint Meet the Buyer in 2022, when more than 200 businesses benefited from interaction with public sector buyers across the STAR Councils.
The Meet the Buyer day gives suppliers across STAR Council areas and the wider Greater Manchester economy, the opportunity to find out what opportunities exist for supplying to local government, education, housing and health services. It provides a unique opportunity to interact with these organisations.
Businesses can also take advantage of workshops delivered by STAR Procurement which will concentrate on aspects of the tendering process which are relevant to the public sector. More information in respect of these workshops – including some regional workshops that will be hosted in the lead-up to the Meet the Buyer day, will be published on this website in the forthcoming days.
Follow the links on this website for further information, including upcoming needs from the participating organisations and the range of workshops that will be delivered on the day.If you have any queries contact STAR.
Tickets
Tickets are free of charge for admission, seminars, and workshops. Get your ticket now before the event is sold out.
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Programme
The event gives you unprecedented access and a great opportunity to meet buyers, commissioners, other contractors, and key decision makers.
Attendance will allow you to:
- network and build your knowledge in public sector procurement
- learn what opportunities are coming up in our contracts pipeline
- attend Masterclasses
- introduce yourself and your organisation to key contacts and much more
Seminars and workshops
We will be hosting seminars and workshops sharing our knowledge and experience of how to bid for tenders and projects and we will offer time for Q&A’s.
The workshops will include a range of topics suitable for those who have never worked with the public sector before all the way through to those who frequently work with us.
There will be hands on support available including how to create your account on our systems, so you have access to bid for our opportunities.
Attendees
STAR’s Meet the Buyer event is aimed at all business sizes, from micro to small and medium, across our six partner organisations and the wider Greater Manchester area.
The current stall and seminar hosts list
For more information on Exhibition Stalls and Seminars, visit our Seminar and Exhibitors page.
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