The public sector offers your business some big opportunities. The figures alone are impressive.

Welsh statistics:

•  £340 million – The total value of the contracts published on sell2wales in its first year
• £3 billion – The amount spent each year on public sector goods and services in Wales
• 100+ – The number of public sector bodies funded by the Welsh Assembly Government you can sell to
• 49% - The percentage of public sector contracts won by Welsh-based companies in the last year
• 30 days – The payment terms you can expect when supplying to the public sector
• 2003 – The year the Welsh Assemble Government launched sell2wales

UK statistics:

• £175 billion – The amount that the UK’s public sector will put to tender in 2009
• 25% - The percentage of people employed in the public sector in the UK              
• 78% - The percentage of companies that won contracts that were listed in the Official Journal of the European Union as being ‘small and medium sized’ companies
• 5 million – The number of people working in the public sector across the UK, of which:
  • 2 million are employed by local government and
  • 500,000 are civil servants