Business opportunities for 2012

Introduction

Delivering the London 2012 Games will be a massive undertaking.

Requiring the goods and services of large, medium and small sized firms from a myriad of business sectors such as:

• construction
• engineering
• manufacturing
• tourism
• hospitality
• food
• retail
• merchandising
• business services
• leisure
• media and creative industries

A summary of the business opportunities

People – recruitment of core staff, supported by a very wide range of professional, technical and advisory consultants. Some of these employment contracts will be large framework contracts that will last for many years. Others will be for shorter, task or project-specific activities.

Olympic Park – contracts for the Olympic Park will be a mixture of site-wide and zonespecific. The kinds of contract are: land assembly, land modelling and remediation, construction and infrastructure.

Venues – this encompasses work on the permanent venues, including support facilities for all Olympic and Paralympic stadia. It will also include the entire transport infrastructure and may include other supporting facilities.

Legacy – this will relate to the dismantling of the temporary Games infrastructure, the conversion of Olympic Games infrastructure to long-term legacy use, and the delivery of the long-term legacy development.

Operations – the London 2012 Organising Committee’s needs will focus on the staging of the Games themselves so its procurement requirements are likely to cover goods and services such as sponsorship, sports equipment, venue seating, security, venue IT/core systems, catering, staff/volunteer
uniforms and official merchandise.

Most supply chain opportunities for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) will start from mid 2007 onwards, once the main construction contracts begin to be let.

Information on all current and future procurement opportunities is available at: www.london2012.com/business.

You can also register for business related e-alerts on the London 2012 website.

Business Update for London 2012

The London Develpoment Agency (LDA) is working with its partners to provide detailed information on emerging procurement opportunities as well as networking events and an electronic brokerage service for Olympic contracts.

The LDA has prepared an update designed to the share the information we do have at this early stage about anticipated supply needs for the Games, the broad timetables and delivery structures.

It also suggests ways that businesses can get a head start on procurement for when contract opportunities do become available.

• A Business Update for London 2012 (May 2007) PDF