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11.11.2022 by John McCollum

A Day Volunteering at Hawthorn's GlasGrow Urban Community Garden

The SPA team assisted at GlasGrow an urban community garden managed by Hawthorn Housing Co-Operative.

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04.05.2022 by John McCollum

Our office refurbishment is now complete

In April we re-opened our newly refurbished office, we haven’t moved, we’re still in the same location but we now occupy the entire first floor.

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03.05.2022 by Heather O'Donnell

Looking to the future recovery of the construction sector

As we are all aware, a little over 2 years ago, the world as we knew it changed significantly due to Covid and put a halt to pretty much everything: in both our professional and personal lives. What we thought would maybe be a few weeks turned into months, and then years.

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29.04.2022 by Kate Christie

SPA Community Benefit Fund Reaches £1.1m for Scottish Communities

As life slowly begins to return to some semblance of normality for many, this is not the case for those that lost family members, friends and jobs. Again, our housing communities are disproportionately impacted by the lasting effects of Covid-19.

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18.03.2022 by Graham Collie, SPA Technical Support Manager

Public sector steps up to net zero challenge

Graham Collie, technical support manager at SPA, explores some of the innovative ways its public sector partners are working to meet net zero in their housing stock, and how taking a flexible approach to procurement can help.

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02.03.2022 by Dean Fazackerley, Head of Technical Procurement at LHC Group

Seven important changes within the Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper

The Government’s recently published Transforming Public Procurement (TPP) Green Paper consultation response shows determination to put alternative assessment scoring front-and-centre over price, to drive both equity and economic improvement.

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31.08.2021 by Alistair Rankine

A Spotlight on our Client Support Team

Client Support Manager, Alistair Rankine discusses why SPA Partners trust SPA for their procurement solutions.

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31.08.2021 by Kate Christie

Why reporting on your social value can give you the edge!

Lintel Trust's Senior Business Development Officer - Kate Christie - discusses the benefits of recording social value for suppliers. 

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30.08.2021 by MAST Architects

Energy Efficiency Standard for Scotland Housing 2 (EESSH2)

A guest blog from SPA Appointed Company, Mast Architects, on EESSH2 targets and how their company can assist through SPA’s Consultancy Framework.

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30.08.2021 by Kate Christie

How our Community Benefit Fund is tackling food poverty in Scotland

Lintel Trust's Senior Business Development Officer - Kate Christie - discusses the causes of food poverty and what SPA's community benefit fund is doing to tackle it.

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