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100 environmental testing companies across England target public sector work through Buyers Guide

January 23, 2007

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Buyers Guide and it’s website, www.buyersguide.co.uk, have been helping UK companies find opportunities with the public sector for over 10 years. It has been especially successful in the environmental testing services area where the public sector is constantly being challenged with new regulatory standards and contamination issues. This has been combined with a more aggressive public that are willing to use the courts to force environmental change.

This aggressive public puts the 14,000 government bodies and quango’s in the UK increasingly at risk of court action for not reacting appropriately and in a timely fashion to environmental issues. This is especially true when citizens’ lives or health are put at risk through environmental contamination, then the government body with ownership or enforcement authority is expected to react quickly or they could face legal proceedings. Once these issues get to court or trial, the penalties can become severe and include fines or prison in extreme cases. In the past years the number of court cases against the government have continued to grow as have the number of fines to councils as well as out of court settlements.

This is where Buyers Guide can help the public sector. The value that the www.buyersguide.co.uk website brings to government procurement officers and public service managers that are delegated the authority to purchase environmental services is that they can find most of the pre-qualification information from a vendor in one place. This in done through a Buyers Guide created company “profile” on the www.buyersguide.co.uk website. This profile is written to specifically answer the pre-qualification questions from public sector buyers. This usually includes information like; previous work with other government bodies, years in business, industry qualifications or certifications like ISO 9002, testimonials from clients, government awards like investors in people, confirmation of equal opportunity employer status, appropriate insurance in place and specific contact details.

Buyers Guide was established in 1996 and has supported environmental testing related companies selling to the public sector from it’s first year. Today there are over 100 companies from across the UK and Europe offering an amazing range of services for the monitoring of existing environmental issues at; brown field sites, landfills, old factory works, colliery’s, smelters, mines, waterways, canals, military bases and power generation facilities. Also, when newly identified environmental issues like emergency spills, asbestos contamination, suspected legionella, indoor air quality, dioxin contamination, noise pollution, gas monitoring, air pollution and enhanced recycling services are identified as a need, the environmental services companies with the requisite skills can be found on the www.buyersguide.co.uk website.

These companies range from family businesses to multinationals, but all have the goal of working on public sector contracts.

Contact:

Buyers Guide
0191 260 5388
0191 221 2287
www.buyersguide.co.uk

Company History

Buyers Guide, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, was established in 1996 and is the leading online directory of UK companies that are targeting the £600 billion in public spending each year. To date, there are over 5,000 company listings in 1,200 categories on the www.buyersguide.co.uk website.