Dear WMCCM User,
Welcome to the new cluster for Construction Companies, related suppliers & services.
As a registered member of the West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace, you can already benefit from free services offered to a network of almost 4000 companies - find tender opportunities online, setup tender alerts for advance warning, find partner companies to collaborate with, form teams, and work together on bids. This cluster has been set up specially for Construction Companies and other suppliers of related services to the built environment. If you fit that description, please follow the links to add your company to the Constructing Excellence cluster.
If FREE assistance worth £2500 is of interest to you, please let me introduce you to the West Midlands Centre for Constructing Excellence (WMCCE).
They are one of 12 UK regional Centres linked with 'Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment’. WMCCE is a non-profit organisation supported by Advantage West Midlands, European Union and other industry partners.
They provide support to eligible companies to enable them to improve their productivity, improve their business processes, improve supply chain management, implement innovative technologies, and adopt best practice.
WMCCE also supports and coordinates the Best Practice Clubs, Regional Demonstration Project Clusters as well as a range of other pan-industry activities.
WMCCE act as brokers for continuous improvement and provide support to achieve excellence in your services and programmes. You can find more details about WMCCE by visiting http://www.wmcce.org.
The support services provided through their Business Assist Programmes include:
• Supply chain management and Strategic procurement
• Construction Accreditations (CAPS, CHAS, Respect for people, ..and many others)
• Product development
• Lean processes
• Benchmarking and Key Performance Indicators’s (KPI’s)
• Sustainability and environmental management
To confirm if you are eligible, please click [email protected] to send an email, or alternatively, you can contact Paul Hackney directly at the WMCCE on 0121 688 4050. I am sure that George will be delighted to answer any questions you may have about their programs.
Kind Regards,
Grant Melrose
Project Consultant
University of Warwick
West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace - Winning Better Business
tel: 024 7652 4602
fax: 024 7657 5388
mobile: 07720 40 30 10
PS: WMCCE also work closely with the larger construction companies, so they can help you to offer your services and bid for sub-contract work.
PPS: The service offered by WMCCE provides an additional 5 days of assistance, no matter how many days assist you may have spent with WMCCM.