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FINANCE

High pension costs 'scare off' private bids says CBI

18 June 2009

Businesses are discouraged from bidding for public service contracts because of the need to mirro...

FINANCE

Appeal for city schools project

10 June 2009

Aberdeen City Council could effectively go ‘bankrupt’ unless Scottish ministers provide financial...

BUSINESS

Bidders line up for IBS OpenSystems subsidiary

09 June 2009

A bidding scramble is unfolding for the revenue and benefits subsidiary of IBS OpenSystems after ...

BUSINESS

Recruiters line up special care team to address skills shortfall

08 June 2009

International recruitment firm, Hays Plc, has launched a new arm to address the shortage of clini...

BUSINESS

Outsourcers count cost of downturn

08 June 2009

Grim results have been delivered by the service and infrastructure sectors supporting local gover...

BUSINESS

Mayor launches drive to promote small city firms

08 June 2009

BUSINESS

Rate relief fees set to rise as slump hits small firms

05 June 2009

Ministers could be forced to increase the amount small businesses contribute to emergency rate re...

BUSINESS

Veolia starts 20-year waste contract

29 May 2009

Veolia Environmental Services will take over responsibility for a £640m waste management and recy...

BUSINESS

'Bundle' contracts boom in recession

29 May 2009

Local authorities are demanding support service firms offer more from contracts, to help save cas...

BUSINESS

£4bn fund for schools

28 May 2009

A multibillion-pound push to accelerate school-building modernisation has been confirmed.