I worked with a private consultancy (Tech4i2) who is in partnership with Ernst & Young in bidding, winning and undertaking European Union tenders. I was part of the team who submitted a for an 8 million euro bid with three objectives: first, to develop the Annual Report on the European SMEs; second, to contribute to the development of the Small Business Act Fact-Sheets; and third, to construct a dataset of SME statistics based primarily on official statistics published by Eurostat and National Statistical Institutes. My main role in the bid was advising and working to meet objectives one and two. The second tender I undertook with is titled: “Connecting SMEs to the Digital Market”.