EU law ‘must support SME tenders’
3 April 2012
European law should give small and medium-sized enterprises a chance to prove their business cases by making members of purchasing consortia tender individually before larger deals take place, a European Parliament sub-committee has heard.
“Being part of a consortium doesn’t take away a company’s responsibility to advertise and tender contracts,” said Tim Williams, managing director of Aberdeen-based public procurement company Tenders Direct.
Williams, a former contracts manager at BP, addressed a public hearing of the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee this month in an effort to get a...