Facilitating Supply Chain Relationships
The DWP Work Programme
London - Tuesday 12th October
Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ
Birmingham – Thursday 14th October
National Motorcycle Museum, Coventry Road, Bickenhill, B92 0EJ
Leeds – Friday 15th October
The Loft, Cross York Street, Leeds, LS2 7EE
The Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) is hosting a series of Prime
Pitch “speed dating” events to assist providers interested in subcontracting
opportunities within DWP’s Work Programme to meet up with prime bidders. The
Prime Pitch events are designed to bring together a number of prime bidders in the
same venues at the same time, and are particularly supportive of smaller, specialist
and voluntary sector providers in enabling them to pitch their services to multiple
bidders in a single day.
We are aiming to attract as many prime bidders as possible to host a speed dating
table at each event, to talk to subcontractor candidates and disseminate their
literature. A full list of confirmed table hosts will be provided in due course.
The events will be free for subcontractor representatives (limited to two
representatives per provider per event), although pre-registration is required. Each
event will involve a separate morning and afternoon session (09.30am to 12.30pm
and 13.30pm to 16.30pm). Participants will be regularly rotated between the tables,
to ensure that subcontractor candidates get the chance to meet all of the prime
bidders that they wish to see.
The price for prime bidders wishing to host a table at each event is £400 plus VAT
for ERSA members and £450 plus VAT for non-members. There is an additional 5%
discount for booking a table at two events, and a 10% discount for booking a table at
all three. Bookings should be confirmed no later than Thursday 30 th September
2010, and tables will be allocated on a first come / first served basis.
An event programme will be available for each event, providing a full list of attendees
and contact e-mails, as well as an overview of each prime table host.
The Prime Pitch events are being organised on behalf of ERSA by Carley Consult.
To register to attend any of the Prime Pitch events, please e-mail Jane Shelley
(jshelley@carleyconsult.co.uk), confirming the event(s) that you wish to attend, the
names of your representatives, and whether you would prefer to attend the morning
or the afternoon session. If you would like to receive an order form to host a table at
any of the events, please also contact Jane at the same address.