A briefing from the Scottish Defence Procurement and Supply Chain Summit, Glasgow If the opening panel of SDS set out the strategic prize, the second panel got into the practical detail SMEs in the room had come to hear. Titled Prime Contractors Opening Doors for Scottish SMEs, this was the candid conversation about what actually happens between an SME with a good idea and a prime with a category list. Chaired by Coreen McCubbin, Chief Technology Officer at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), the panel brought together a prime contractor, the operator of the defence sector’s most-recognised supplier qualification…
