SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 15 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, presented this Thursday the seventh ‘Meeting of Spanish Bidding Companies’, a national event that will bring together on the island, on October 18 and 19, more than a hundred companies from all Spanish regions and with representatives of international organizations such as the World Bank.
The objective of the initiative is to bring the international tender market closer to the Tenerife business fabric and foster alliances that contribute to improving their chances of being awarded public contracts.
The meeting is organized by the Cabildo de Tenerife, through the delegated area of Foreign Action, and the Chamber of Commerce of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in collaboration with ICEX and a wide network of Spanish regional organizations for international promotion.
Martín stressed that “this meeting will turn Tenerife into a connection platform for companies interested in expanding their business abroad, especially in the African market.”
From the Cabildo, he said, “we want to promote business opportunities through the international market for tenders, as well as through organizations as powerful as the World Bank, the European Investment Bank or the African Development Bank, which guarantee the solvency of payment of the operation, which further opens the range for participation”.
The president added that it is “an impulse to promote the internationalization of the business fabric through public tenders, which contributes to maintaining the economic activity of companies, sustained over time and with the generation of employment and that also contributes to the development of the territories in strategic areas such as industry, energy and the environment, among others”.
For his part, Santiago Sesé, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, explained how international tenders represent an opportunity to facilitate the exit of Tenerife companies abroad and “with this event the business community will be able to find out which countries will receive more financing in the coming years and the public contracts that will be tendered two years ahead”.
He also stressed that “any company, regardless of its size, can become a successful bidder of these international organizations.”
For her part, the CEO of Foreign Action, Liskel Álvarez, stressed that “it is no coincidence that this event is held in Tenerife, given the success and trajectory of the ‘Tenerife Licita’ program, promoted by the Cabildo, together with the chamber institution , which has been consolidated in recent years as a benchmark program in the national market for tenders”.
Along these lines, he said that he hopes that this national forum “will serve companies to share contacts, experiences and generate collaboration opportunities to launch joint projects.”
FOR THE FIRST TIME TWO DAYS OF DURATION
Among the novelties of the programming, an award ceremony is announced to highlight the work of the business fabric in 11 categories: large bidding company; SME; micro-SMEs; bidding Canarian company; bidding company in Africa; bidding public company; bidding companies from the water, energy, ICT, engineering and tourism sectors, and the bidding company of ‘Tenerife Licita’.
Another novelty is that it will be the first time that this business forum lasts two days.
The program will include four talks on ‘The Spanish company on the African continent’, ‘Business opportunities in Africa from the perspective of multilateral financing’, ‘The role of financial institutions in the multilateral market’ and ‘The action European foreign affairs and the main financial instruments for projects in Africa’.
These conferences will present the novelties in the project portfolio of the main multilateral organizations that operate in the African market, such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank, among other organizations.
This event will also be enriched by the holding of B2B meetings in which attendees will be able to hold individual meetings both with representatives of the international organizations attending and with other companies, thus being able to identify common interests and favor alliances that allow Tenerife companies to establish consortiums to jointly present more competitive offers.
The agenda will be completed with the celebration of five sectoral work tables, on the UN, water and sanitation, energy and environment, tourism, engineering and transport, and ICTs, as strategic sectors to promote growth and development on the African continent.
