Julia needs to know government inside out - both central policies affecting Survue's business, and local authorities who assign contracts. The ID team have recently added new sources to Julia's MediaDashboard service; it's time to check them out.

First is Hansard: the official record of British parliamentary business. A list of key concepts in the search criteria produces several links a week to ministerial statements and parliamentary questions concerning Survue's business: civil engineering and infrastructure projects. Usefully, this also flags upcoming debates - which Survue might be able to influence.

Second is a set of sources covering PPPs, the privately-financed public works in which Survue plays a big role. She reads up on new legislation about PPP/PFI regarding sub-£250K projects. (Survue is involved in eight of those.) She cuts and pastes the summary into an email to the project managers. Also, 22 local authorities now publish Requests for Proposals on the web; MediaDashboard trawls them too, saving 2 FTEs of resource. One £500,000 tender is of interest to Survue; Julia emails the link to the sales team.

Business worth £2.5m communicated, and it's not lunchtime yet.

Next: finding out what matters to Ministers.