The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Prestigious oil contract for Dundee company
TRAINING: Preferred global supplier status under master contract by BP
Dundee-headquartered training provider 20/20 Business Insight has won a prestigious contract with one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies.
The Broughty Ferry-based company, which also has offices in Aberdeen, London and the USA, has been awarded preferred supplier status under a master contract by BP for providing project management training globally.
Ironically, the account has been won after 20/20 stepped away from its previous focus almost entirely on the oil and gas sector – adding BP to a diverse client portfolio that now includes Wood Group, Centrica, Balfour Beatty, British Aerospace, Hinckley Point, Network Rail, Diageo and Wm Grant.
Chief executive officer Tony Marks, who said the new status came off the back of recent big contract wins in the nuclear power industry, added: “20|20 are delighted to have been awarded preferred supplier status under a master contract by BP for providing project management training globally.
“It’s a great team performance in demonstrating our international capability and upstream oil industry experience to win this prestigious account.”
20|20 Business Insight, which employs 26 staff and had revenues of £2.84 million last year, is a full service, project management, business and leadership training and consulting company which delivers training courses and consulting services throughout the world.
It is the largest independent provider of project management training courses in the UK.
The consulting team works with companies to analyse competence baselines and deliver maturity assessments, design bespoke and accredited training programmes, create handbooks and manuals, implement project management procedures and protocols and then measure and report effectiveness.
Mr Marks said that, crucially, they had the ability to deliver internationally-accredited training and consulting anywhere in the world, primarily in oil and gas, engineering and construction, utilities, nuclear, food and drink However, despite an international outlook, they remained proud to be rooted in Dundee.
“We are big fans of Dundee and supporters of the Tay Cities Deal to bring jobs, including de-commissioning, to Dundee,” he added.
“When we started in 2003, we were almost exclusively in the oil and gas sector before diversifying into other sectors.
“We were lucky because two years ago the oil and gas sector started to decline, and accounts for around 10% of the work we do now. So it’s quite interesting we are back in the oil and gas sector now.”