Over the last year Andrew has attended a few meetings surrounding the redevelopment of the Sell2Wales website. Each meeting was chaired by Richard Gaunt, acting as an independent research consultant, in order to gauge opinions from users of the Sell2Wales website.

Tuesday saw the last of the user-group meetings, where a representative of Sequence attended to run through the proposed redevelopment including the changes made from the users feedback. Lots of emphasis was placed on the search facilities, by providing a much more user-friendly approach to the core functionality of the website. CPV codes have been pushed to the background to be replaced by a much more intuitive keyword based system of searching.

Andrew and the others attending the final meeting had a quick walk through of initial visual concepts proposed for the website and it was out with the red and blue and in with the lime green and black, with a beta version of the site proposed for March 2011.

With many if not all SMEs relying on the website for information on public sector contracts, it will be interesting to see what impact the changes will make.