Home / Insights / Blog / Supporting Buyers with the ‘Local Pound’ Supporting Buyers with the ‘Local Pound’ Product Update – Aug 2022 We are excited to announce platform updates to some of our most popular features. As a result of our customer feedback, we regularly update the Constructionline and Facilitiesline platform to help you get the most out of your membership and find new business. Please find this month’s updates below. Marketplace PUBLISH changes We are introducing a number of features into Marketplace Publish which will support Buyers in their efforts to maximise and demonstrate a commitment to supporting the ‘Local Pound’.Filter by Office Type – Allows a Buyer to select between Head and Branch offices when they are looking to maximise benefit to the local economy – the ‘Local Pound’. A Head office located close to a project will ensure more of the money spent flows back into the local economy and is often an important consideration for Main Contractors when bidding for tenders.Find suppliers by Area/Region – Offers a more accurate way for a Buyer to select suppliers that have a presence in a specific area, such as a county, as an alternative to within a radius of a project location – supports the ‘Local Pound’. Our SSIP product - Acclaim - achieves a UKAS Certificate for ISO 17020 We are pleased to announce that our SSIP scheme, Acclaim, is officially a Type C Inspection Body accredited by UKAS against ISO/IEC 17020:2012.Acclaim is one of the very few SSIP Schemes to hold this accreditation which demonstrates our technical competence in Health and Safety. Find out more about Acclaim Blog Supplier, Platform update Related case studies Supplier Case Studies Hill Hill is one of the country’s top house builders, specialising in developing homes of distinction across London and the South East. Innovation, design excellence, quality build and respect for the local environment are key to their success, which has been recognised through several major industry awards. … Read more Buyer Case Studies VINCI Construction UK VINCI Construction UK saves 22,000 man hours in procurement and supply chain management with Constructionline and the COINS iPortal VINCI Construction UK is a market leading national construction and facilities company, and part of the VINCI Group. The organisation employs 4,000 people across four divisions … Read more Buyer Case Studies Wates Group Following a comprehensive review of their supply chain data management systems and the providers of this technology available in the market place, construction and development firm Wates Group adopted Constructionline in a bid to streamline procurement processes and reduce risk across all its contracting divisions. … Read more See more
