A successful procurement doesn’t start when the tender goes live — it starts much earlier, with realistic planning, strong preparation and a clear understanding of the steps that need to happen along the way.

Awarding your contract is often a long awaited milestone — but it’s not the finish line. Mobilisation is where the real work begins: turning tender promises into a safe, compliant, uninterrupted service from day one.

Understanding the impact of staff pensions when running your tenders is vital. For this webinar in February we are delighted to be joined by Ginevra Gatrell (Partner, Pensions) from gunnercooke llp. Ginevra is a pensions law expert with over 20 years’ experience, and so is very well placed to talk us through the key issues

Minerva Director, Lorraine Ashover will highlight the most common challenges faced in education settings — from defining requirements and ensuring fair competition to document production, managing site visits, serving notice to existing suppliers and compliance with the Procurement Act 2023.

Running a successful tender process doesn’t necessarily mean you can relax and let the service run itself once the contract has been awarded. Once that ‘honeymoon period’ is over how do ensure you’re getting the best value from your services and managing key supplier relationships to best effect?  In this

Yes, she’s back again!  This month Minerva Director Lorraine Ashover will be taking you through a veritable smorgasbord of helpful resources when it comes to procurement.  She’ll be covering: If you can’t make the live session, don’t worry – registering will ensure you get a recording of the webinar.

The Procurement Act 2023 (PA2023) will be replacing the Public Contract Regulations 2015 from February 2025, impacting all regulated procurement for maintained and Academy schools and Trusts. So what exactly does it mean for you?  Join Minerva’s Director (and in-house PA expert!) Lorraine Ashover, who will be taking you on

If you are thinking of carrying out work on your school building then you need to sign up for this webinar. We are joined by Jo Marchant MBE who has 15 years’ experience of estate management, specifically in the education sector. She is currently the Estates Professional at The Boxing

This month we are joined by Amanda Hepburn who is an Account Director at GPT Waste. Amanda has extensive knowledge of this sector, working at one of the leading independent providers of waste management solutions in the UK. In April 2025 there will be new legislation for food waste –

Lorraine talks you through the key considerations when planning your next year’s procurement. It is never too early to start planning to ensure you remain compliant with all legislation and DfE requirements – and to avoid last minute panics!

This month we are joined once again by Matthew Wolton, partner at VWV in the Commercial Law team. In the second of our two webinars looking at contracts within the academy trust sector, Matthew will be covering termination and how to get out of contracts that are just not working, specifically looking

This month we are joined by Matthew Wolton. Matthew is a partner at VWV in the Commercial Law team. He has worked in the education sector for over 21 years, and with academy trusts since 2007, and has significant experience in general commercial law as well as public procurement advising on everything

We are joined by Neil Limbrick from The Education Collective. Neil has been in education for 22 years undertaking various strategic IT roles in schools and MATs with particular success in developing systems to improve functions, efficiency and security – the latter being vital in today’s precarious environment. Cyber attacks are, worryingly,

This month we are joined by Zenergi’s Energy Markets and Procurement team for an overview of the energy market landscape. Zenergi’s expert team continuously reviews the energy market, keeping on top of trends, news and forecasts affecting energy prices and plan to share their analysis in this session. Please tune

As the saying goes “garbage in, garbage out” and writing documentation and specifications for your tenders is no different.  This month Lorraine will take you through some thoughts on how to improve your specifications including information which is often missed and can cause issues down the line if it is.

This month we are joined by Ben Willetts of Edurio. Ben has worked with Edurio as a Content and Insights Specialist for over a year and was part of the team that completed the analysis of their recent insightful Staff Retention by Role report as well as being the author of the report.