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Welcome to the new and improved Project Calls!

This new Project Calls website has been a long time coming!

As with most ventures, Project Calls started off trying to solve a problem: to reduce the time Independent Consultants and Contractors spend searching for project opportunities. Although searching for work opportunities is a necessary part of Consultant’s and Contractor’s life, it can be tedious, definitely time consuming, but also eats away valuable time that could be spent on paid, or otherwise productive, work.

From all indications, our mailing list subscribers have found Project Calls a valuable resource to help them be more aware of the opportunities across the region. With that knowledge, they can then decide whether on not to bid on a particular opportunity. The key though is being armed the informations not order to make an informed decision.

One of observations over the past 5 to 10 years, particularly since the global financial crisis in 2008, is the fact that competition for projects has gotten stiff. More Caribbean people seem to be working as Consultants and Contractors, but still for some of the larger tenders, say over USD 50,000, they still tend to be dominated by the more recognized, international/global firms.

Hence, in addition to collating Caribbean project opportunities, we eventually intend to share insights, tools and resources, all geared towards improving the quality of bids our subscribers prepare and submit, but ultimately, doing our part to help the Caribbean Consultant not only survive, but thrive!