The Forum of Private Business is advising small businesses to register online to improve their chances of procuring public contracts.
Business-owners have been granted free access to the Government website www.supply2.gov.uk, but only until July 31.
The FPB believes that, if the incentive paves the way for more small businesses competing for tenders, it should be made available to them indefinitely.
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The website provides information on thousands of available public sector contracts valued at under £100,000.
Free access to contracts across the UK for new registrants is being offered on a trial basis as part of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform's new Enterprise Strategy.
The FPB has long campaigned for the process of bidding for public contracts to be made more accessible to small businesses in order to boost competition and save taxpayers' money. In the 2008 Budget, the Government announced plans to award 30 per cent of all public contracts to small firms.
"One way of achieving the Government's target of 30 per cent is to better match the information about the contracts that are out there - particularly those at the lower end of the price range - with the small businesses that are eager to bid for them," said the FPB's Policy Representative, Matt Goodman.
"If the trial is a success, and more small firms submit tenders for public work, the Government should consider extending the incentive indefinitely, to give owners of small businesses a better chance to compete."
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