All episodesThe Architecture Social Podcast

EP 021518 June 2024 · 59 min

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

Jacob WillsonBe First
Housing & Placemaking
Ready when you are.

This Transistor podcast needs media cookies to play here.Enable videos and podcasts, or accept all optional cookies.

Your choice is remembered across the site. Change it any time.

Audio · 59:06

00:00 · Introduction to Be First and Barking and Dagenham12 chapters ↓

Read the transcript

About this conversation

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

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.

The conversation covers:

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

Topics in this episode

Each topic opens its knowledge hub with jobs, people, courses and more episodes.

Transcript

Back to player

Read the conversation.

Automatically generated. Words and speaker labels may contain mistakes. Play a passage to hear the original.

Opening of the conversation

Timestamps jump to the nearest marked moment in the audio.

  1. · 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.

  2. 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.

Continue the conversation

What’s your take?

An episode ends. A good conversation carries on.

View in forum →

The conversation

Loading the conversation…

The guest, the practice, the work

Follow the conversation into the directory.

Guest · People

Jacob Willson

Be First. Guest on episode 0215.

View profile →

Practice

Be First

1 project on Architecture Social.

Open Be First →

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.

Roles in this world

Live Public Sector roles on the jobs board right now.

Browse Public Sector roles

The newsletter

Get the next conversation in your inbox.

New episodes, the companion guides and the Friday session. No spam, unsubscribe any time.