How to Win Projects in the Public Sector, ft. Be First London

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Jacob Willson Be FirstHousing & Placemaking

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Public-sector work can look opaque from the outside, especially for smaller practices trying to understand procurement, fees, quality scoring and how to avoid wasting time on the wrong bids.

Stephen Drew speaks with Jacob Willson and Amandeep Kalra from Be First about winning public-sector projects, building design teams, judging quality and making architecture useful for communities in Barking and Dagenham.

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How Be First uses architecture, urban design, landscape and sustainability expertise

What public-sector clients look for when procuring design teams

How quality, fees and due diligence shape tender decisions

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0:00 · Stephen Drew
Stephen Drew
Have you ever been to Barking? Things are changing and I'm going to be the first to show you. I'm not joking. Wow. That came to me that quick. It's like a dad joke, but I promise the rest of this is definitely not a dad joke. 25 seconds. We go live.
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Now for all you that thought about client side, okay. And you bang the ears off the developer managers and all that stuff. You can get the information here.

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Barking, London, United Kingdom · 2023
Industria
London's first new-generation multi-storey ramped industrial scheme, providing 45 units and more than 100,000 sq ft in Barking.
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