Travel Agent Wins Contracts

Independent travel company, The Travel Bureau, in Gosforth, has significantly extended its business opportunities as a result of joining an online tendering service.

(PRWEB) December 25, 2004 -- Independent travel company, The Travel Bureau, in Gosforth, has significantly extended its business opportunities as a result of joining an online tendering service.

Prior to signing up for the service its clients were all based locally. Now, however, it competes nationally and secures contracts with European companies, whose branch offices are located within the area.

Recent wins for The Travel Bureau include contracts from Government organisations, NHS trusts, local authorities and universities. The largest tender business currently handled by the company is a national account, worth in excess of 2 million.

The service, www.n-e-opportunities.com, is provided by n-e-life, the electronic community for the North East. It offers 900 business opportunities daily, from the UK, Europe and beyond, and can be tailored to deliver, to the desktop, only those that are most relevant to an organisation.

The Travel Bureau was one of the first companies to sign up for the service and rates it as an indispensable part of its business development activities.

Janet Blyth, business development manager at The Travel Bureau says: the tender identification process can be very time consuming, detailed and costly in terms of manpower. If we did not receive information on relevant tenders through www.n-e-opportunities.com it would be impossible to manually research and sift through publications such as the Official Journal of the European Communities to identify tenders of interest to the company."

This aspect of the service overcomes a challenge faced by many small and medium businesses like The Travel Bureau. Janet Blyth adds, The real benefit of the service is timely and relevant information. The system is designed to recognise our classification codes, so that it can filter, from a plethora of opportunities, only those that are relevant to us."

Janet Blyth encourages other small businesses that think that they are too small to compete for public sector tenders to think again.

There is pressure from central government to open up local authority supplier lists.

"This will mean that opportunities will be available to a wider group of businesses, in particular to smaller companies who can often provide clients with better value, greater flexibility and specialist skills. www.n-e-opportunities is a great way for a small business to 'dip its toe in the water and learn about opportunities it may otherwise miss."

The tendering service is available for 250 per annum. For more information visit www.n-e-opportunities.com or call (0191) 487 2002.

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