{"id":14677,"date":"2017-01-13T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14677"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:59:21","slug":"ihbcs-top-hespr-tender-pick-of-the-week-blaenau-gwent-county-bc-town-centres-strategy-closing-27-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14677","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Top HESPR tender pick of the week\u2019: Blaenau Gwent County BC, Town Centres Strategy, closing 27 Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HESPR_QA-e1459011751751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12425\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HESPR_QA-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>The IHBC\u2019s commercial conservation services listing, HESPR \u2013 the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme \u2013 offers its members weekly HESPR Bulletins that bring tender opportunities together into one handy resource, whle the Director\u2019s top pick for IHBC members this week features a call from Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council (BC) for a specialist consultant to develop select Town Centre Strategies, with a closing date of 27 January, and no valuation stated.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>IHBC Chair James Caird said: \u2018Our weekly Bulletin of current tender notifications to HESPR members is an innovative service that supports commercial conservation businesses that work to the IHBC\u2019s standards and expectations.\u00a0 These weekly selections offer the wider heritage world a regular insight into the conservation profession that we hope combine good news, sector profile and service inspiration all in one.\u2019<u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Top tender pick of the week:<\/p>\n<p>The IHBC Director\u2019s top pick from the HESPR Bulletin for this week comes from Blaenau Gwent County BC, which is looking to procure a specialist consultant to develop an individual Town Centre Strategy for each of Blaenau Gwent\u2019s 5 town centres \u2013 Abertillery, Blaina, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. It says: \u2018The strategy should be an economic development focussed document which sets out an approach to supporting enterprise, attracting investment and creating sustainable community hubs within each town centre.\u00a0 The project is funded by Welsh Government and therefore the project would need to be completed within 6 weeks of appointment (or 30th March 2017).\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The contract is not given a value, while bids close on 27 January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sell2wales.gov.wales\/search\/show\/search_view.aspx?ID=JAN178751\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about this opportunity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on HESPR and how to become a HESPR member see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">hespr.ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HESPR-Leaflet-Cover-e1475942582571.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10495\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HESPR-Leaflet-Cover-196x300.png\" alt=\"HESPR flyer\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/docs\/HESPR-A5-leaflet.pdf\">Download the HESPR flyer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC\u2019s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at <a href=\"mailto:contact@ihbc.org.uk\">contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a>, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/jobsetc\/\"><em>IHBC Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>, including a targeted email to 1700+ recipients as well as full coverage on our Newsblog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.14,000) and websites with 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at <a href=\"mailto:contact@ihbc.org.uk\">contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC\u2019s commercial conservation services listing, HESPR \u2013 the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme \u2013 offers its members weekly HESPR Bulletins that bring tender opportunities together into one handy resource, whle the Director\u2019s top pick for IHBC members this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14678,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions\/14678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}