The Procurement Hub

BUILD YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESS THROUGH THE NEXT STAGE OF OUR GROWTH STRATEGY

BITA is excited to announce our Procurement Hub, a powerful new opportunity for our members to grow their networks and find new clients, suppliers and collaborators.

When launching BITA we intended to provide connectivity and business for our members, as well as a friendly community. We have achieved this, but we are always seeking to improve and provide greater value to our members.

Although BITA is not industry specific, we have started creating sector specific hubs of business, and we want our members to be able to use these to their best advantage by providing the framework for a supply chain that is interconnected and quality checked.

To help us connect you with businesses that suit your exact requirements, we need more information about your organisation, your capabilities, revenues, sectors and more. The resulting Procurement Hub will have two facets, online connections and targeted introductions.

Connecting online The purpose of this new venture is to provide easy access to the resources required to fulfil the requirements of a company’s projects. This will be an easy to use system with multiple benefits.

Ultimately our members will be able to work together to create an alliance of businesses working collaboratively to access bigger contracts than they would be able to secure on their own. This will also create a so far untapped interconnected supply chain, able to offer full services to organisations struggling to fulfil their skill requirements.

Over the next few months we will be getting in touch with all our members and asking them to complete a questionnaire with further information about their business. These facts about resources, capabilities, location and reach, training and examples of projects they have delivered, as well as vital details about what sectors/ industries/specific businesses you want to have introductions to, will help make this a hub of significant value.

We know that our members represent a broad cross-section of industry in the UK and Ireland today, from sole traders working in competitive markets, to multi-nationals working in highly specialised industries, but by sharing this information about your business we will be able to connect you with opportunity at the right level, and help you access that opportunity yourselves.

Targeted Introductions By using the information from our online platform, we will be able to access details about members and find out not only who they would like to meet, but to connect them with great people they could benefit from meeting.

We will be organising small industry specific dinners throughout the year, where we will issue targeted invitations to those on the procurement hub with the intention to facilitate introductions that can be taken further. In a more intimate setting than our larger events, there is a greater opportunity to collaborate. Connecting suppliers and clients, as well as introducing suppliers to others in their industry that they can collaborate with to access larger projects, means the event becomes more beneficial for all parties.

These dinners of around 20 people will be held at various prestigious venues at all BITA chapter cities and will start in 2020.

Our mission as an organisation is to offer a helping hand to people of both countries who are seeking new business, relocating or adapting to cultural changes in either country.

Further assisting professionals branching out and building relationships with other business people in Britain, Ireland and further, to increase the wealth and prosperity of both nations.

The Procurement Hub is the next stage of this mission and has the potential to provide organisations with a supply chain that will deliver savings, retain quality and fulfil skill requirements.

We are the People who Know People that Help People, and this is the beginning of the next phase of BITA. We hope that you are as excited about this new development as we are.