When : Friday November 27th at 2 pm

Overview:

14:00 - Webinar Begins

14:05 - Welcome

14:10 - Mike McGrath, ARVO

14:25 - Amanda Craven, BWL Consulting

14:40 - Questions and Answers

Contact: eimer.oconnell@nuigalway.ie

Mike McGrath, ARVO Procurement

Arvo is a specialist procurement consultancy that assists organisations to achieve procurement objectives, business efficiencies and commercial savings. Arvo is an award winning business, backed by Enterprise Ireland (EI). Arvo was founded by Mike McGrath in 2013 to address the growing Sourcing and Procurement challenges faced by local and international businesses, within the public and private sectors. Arvo provide both Strategic Procurement and Tactical Procurement services to clients, with the strategic approaches focusing on long-term delivery of value and impact, while their Tactical Procurement expertise supports the day-to- day operational aspects of sourcing & procurement.

Mike will provide an overview of procurement and discuss the key principals while also providing further insight into understanding the buyer and the buyer's mindset.

Amanda Craven, Director, BWL Consulting

The team of experts at BWL Consulting have extensive experience delivering client-focused solutions across a wide range of sectors and industries including healthcare, manufacturing, industry, education, residential and transport.

Amanda is a founding Director of BWL Consulting. She is an experienced Bid Professional and has vast experience of the Irish Public-Sector Tendering arena. She has a wealth of knowledge in all aspects of the tendering process, from identifying strategic opportunities, developing a library from scratch to leading complex consortium submissions for nationwide managed services. She has successfully delivered on tenders in the Recruitment, Education, Transport and Construction industries with particular success in all aspects of Healthcare, including Mental Health, Care of the Elderly and Homecare Solutions.

Many of Amanda's clients are first time tenderers who have now developed a successful tender strategy for their business. She have worked with a wide range of SME clients in ROI, NI and the UK .

Throughout this webinar, Amanda will discuss the process of writing a tender providing tips and advice, what mistakes to avoid, what to learn from an unsuccessful bid and much more.

Health Innovation Hub

Health Innovation Hub Ireland is a joint government initiative funded by Enterprise Ireland and supported by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to enable healthcare staff across all disciplines and departments to validate their ideas for innovative solutions, products, services, and process improvements for unmet needs in healthcare. Health Innovation Hub Ireland provide commercial, technical, and clinical feedback on ideas from the healthcare community, and help determine the best way to make them a reality.

Health Innovation Hub Ireland support indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs with early stage or developed solutions by facilitating access to the healthcare professionals qualified to validate their solutions. By means of user feedback sessions or pilot studies, companies and entrepreneurs receive invaluable information on the challenges their solutions must address to gain market acceptance and entry.

Health Innovation Hub Ireland has a national remit with offices in Cork, Dublin and Galway. The Galway office is located on the grounds of University Hospital Galway in the Clinical Science Institute.