Bids

Accountancy Services

Henderson Loggie Sinclair Wood

Henderson Loggie Sinclair Wood is an accountancy firm with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee.

Please contact Alan Davies - Telephone No. 01382 200 055 or David Wood Telephone No. 0141 225 8622 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Johnston Carmichael

Johnston Carmichael are a well known accountancy firm with offices throughout Scotland.

Please contact Claire McCaffray or John Todd - Telephone No. 01463 224 848 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ballot Services

ERS

ERS is the UK’s leading election administrators and consultants, with over 120 years experience and expertise.  With experience of working on over 30 BID ballots in England, we are able to guide you through both phases of the BID ballot process, thereby freeing you from the additional administration that complex electoral procedures can generate.   At the same time your electorate will have confidence in the impartiality and independence of the election process and its result.

ERS are repeatedly appointed to manage ballots by numerous organisations and companies, including two thirds of all UK local authorities and many FTSE 500 companies.  We have run around 40 BID ballots since the inception of the scheme and have developed a clear and flexible working process that can be tailored to your requirements.

Many BID proposers have looked to the expertise of Electoral Reform Services (ERS) to provide consultancy and balloting services.

For further information or indicative costs please contact: Martin Oakley via: email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Tel: 020 8365 8909

Prime Connexions

Prime Connexions operates in the response handling and fulfilment marketplace, providing services primarily to the financial services sector.  Prime operates at the ‘high end’ of the market with a strong emphasis on service quality.  We provide a fully comprehensive service entirely in-house, from receipt of data files through to the printing and mailing of signed correspondence, inserts, the handling of inbound telephone and mail responses, outbound telephone and letter campaigns, reporting of results in detail or in statistical summary format. 

We are complimented regularly on our ability to meet very tight deadlines and quality standards.  Accuracy is of paramount importance to our clients, as is our ability to handle volume responses professionally and to provide data management expertise.

We believe that we can offer an unrivalled service to all parties involved and we can provide services in the following areas:

1. Printing and mailing of ballot forms and any relevant inserts. This is an area in which we have considerable expertise and can print and mail all types of ballot form, covering letters and any other inserts from the data file provided.
2. Handling of both telephone and mail responses.  These can be processed in accordance with client specific requirements.  We can provide a low cost 0845 telephone number for enquiries and can provide a full response handling service between the hours of 8.00am and 8.00pm, Monday to Friday, and at weekends as required.  Our staff would be fully trained to handle enquiries from businesses receiving ballot forms.
3. Completed ballot forms can be processed by us and any relevant reports provided on a regular or ad hoc basis.
4. We can provide an outbound telephone or mail service to follow up ballot forms not returned, if this is considered to be appropriate.

For further information or to arrange a meeting please contact : David Lyall - Tel 0131 477 8999 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or write to Prime Connexions II Limited, 12 Drumsheugh Gardens , Edinburgh , EH3 7QG

Prime Connexions II Limited has its registered office at 40 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4HG.

Legal Services

Harper Macleod LLP

Harper Macleod LLP, one of Scotland's leading commercial law firms, is working together with the Scottish Government and the pilot BIDs on developing a bespoke suite of documents to regulate the relationship between the various stakeholders for use by the pilot BIDs and other Scottish BIDs. For further assistance and advice on this or private - public partnership companies contact Chris Kerr, Partner, on 01463 795 007, via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or the Harper Macleod website at http://www.harpermacleod.co.uk

Levy Collection Services

Scott & Co.

Scott & Co Group is the leading provider of Revenue Management, Debt Recovery and associated services to both the public and private sector.  In particular, we act for the majority of the Scottish Local Authorities, a number of whom utilise our services on an exclusive basis.  We believe that our wealth of experience and established performance in relation to the collection of Non Domestic Rates in Scotland is a key factor in our proposal to provide the services required under this project.

We can provide services in the following areas:

1. Issuing of initial invoices.  These can be printed and issued in any format required.  We print a wide range of letters and other documentation for major banks and Local Authority clients and we believe our commitment to our quality service in this particular area is key to our proposal.
2. Processing of payments received from businesses.  We offer a wide variety of payment methods to ensure that it is as easy as possible for businesses to make the required payment.  Again, this is an area in which we have longstanding experience and our organisation handles very high volume payments on a daily basis. Payments will be remitted to the appropriate body on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, as required.  We can remit payment and back-up payment files in any format.
3. We will provide a full monitoring service to ensure that all payments are received timeously and any default identified as quickly as possible.

For further information click here or to arrange a meeting please contact : David Lyall - Tel 0131 477 8999 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or write to Prime Connexions II Limited, 12 Drumsheugh Gardens , Edinburgh , EH3 7QG

Through a combination of Prime Connexions and Scott & Co’s expertise in both the public and private sector, and our commitment to partnership working, we believe that we can offer an unrivalled service to all parties involved and handle the service required entirely in-house.