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What Is Social Value in Procurement?
The wider economic, social and environmental benefits a contract can deliver beyond the core goods or service, such as local jobs or lower carbon.
How is social value included in tenders?
Usually as an award criterion with its own weighting, and sometimes as contract requirements or KPIs to track delivery.
What counts as social value?
Benefits such as local jobs and apprenticeships, opportunities for SMEs, reduced carbon emissions, and support for community wellbeing.
How should suppliers answer social value questions?
With specific, measurable commitments tied to the contract, such as numbers, timelines and how delivery will be reported, rather than general company policies.
