Introduction

We’re currently responding to several government inquiries into public sector procurement and commissioning, and the quality of public services.

To ensure our responses accurately reflect the experiences and opinions of the voluntary sector, we’d like to know what you think are the main challenges to competing for public sector contracts; participating in procurement processes; and some of the key obstacles that exist to improving public services for community users.

All trends identified and examples gathered will also help inform our ongoing public services policy work, allowing us to highlight important issues to policy makers and work towards potential solutions.

Your response will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This survey is open until Friday 11 October 2013.

If you have any comments or questions, email me at paul.winyard@ncvo-vol.org.uk or call 0207 520 2463.

Many thanks in advance for your help. We will keep you updated on the findings and further developments.

Best wishes,

Paul Winyard
Policy Officer

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