Credentials

Our business is built on trust and respect. And as such, our credentials and what our clients and partners say about us is key to our success. Take a look for yourself and see what our clients say about us.

We also believe in the importance of actions as well as words. As such, we’re an accredited Investor In People (IiP) and our consultants are members of appropriate professional bodies

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Linbrook Services Ltd

“Since working with AVE (Partners) Ltd during Linbrook’s recent – and successful – bid for the City of London’s Repairs and Maintenance tender, our partnership has gone from strength to strength. AVE really understands the problems facing SMEs tendering for public sector business when competing against major national and multinational players. This understanding was keenly highlighted during its recently-held “Supplier Diversity” workshop.

“AVE believes, as we do, that smaller organisations can be just as skilled as larger ones; and in some cases, even more agile because they have leaner more efficient organisations. Financial size is not necessarily an indicator of capability and competence but a company’s turnover is often given an unreasonably high weighting compared with other criteria

“For instance, while Linbrook generally meets comprehensive pre-requisite conditions for public sector bids, we can sometimes be disqualified mid-tender based on an insufficient annual turnover – where the minimum requirement can be set as high as £64 million. To a company like Linbrook with a turnover of more than £45 million, this seems extremely unfair and highly frustrating when we have the right experience and the right people to do the job. All too often in the public sector the awarding of major contracts comes down to supplier size; a trend which, like us, AVE is intent on reversing.

“AVE’s impressive scope of experience, knowledge and intuitive understanding of public sector procedures, processes and people is proving invaluable in helping us, and other SMEs, break down the size-barriers within local government.

“Linbrook has been offering apprenticeships to local people for trade and office vocations within the construction industry for over 20 years. We train locally. And we source our materials locally; which often can’t be said of bigger contractors. We’re encouraging employment so in effect, giving something back to the community, but if we are to sustain this we need first to be eligible to win public sector business.

“I’m confident that our continuing partnership with AVE will not only help us to win bigger and better tenders, but enable us to reinvest in what matters most – our people and our local community.”

Tommy Thompson,
Business Development Director, Linbrook Services Limited
www.linbrook.co.uk

Other Clients

We work across the public, commercial and charity sectors and have delivered programmes, workshops and activities for clients including:-

• Buying A Better London (part of the London Centre for Procurement Excellence). Council clients included: Barking & Dagenham, Croydon, Hackney, Haringey, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Lewisham, Newham and Waltham Forest. GLA group clients: GLA, Transport for London, Metropolitan Police and the London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority.
• Bradley Catering Ltd
• Copiae Ltd (business consultancy)
• Delta Club (business support organisation)
• HAVCO (social enterprise network)
• Janssen- Cilag (part of the Johnson & Johnson Group)
• London Borough of Hackney
• London Borough of Waltham Forest
• People Asset Management (occupational health provider)
• RTS Cleaning Services
• Selby Trust (business support organisation)
• The London Development Agency (LDA)
• Total Heath Care (a social enterprise)
• Trade Local, a London Borough of Haringey initiative
• Work2work