What Is Social Value Procurement?

Your Social Value Procurement Procurement Spend Is One Of Your Most Powerful Tools For Social Change. Are You Using It?

Social Value Procurement

We help housing associations, local authorities, and contractors measure, deliver, and evidence social value across their programmes.

What We Do For You

From Strategy To Evidence

We work with suppliers, contractors, and housing providers to build Social Value strategy into tender submissions that stand out for all the right reasons.

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Embeding Social Value Into Your Operations

Aligning your procurement practices with external frameworks, updating documentation, and evaluating bids to identify the strongest social value responses. We ensure every contract you award is working toward measurable outcomes, from day one.

Tender Writing Support

For contractors and supply chain businesses, winning public sector contracts increasingly depends on the strength of your social value offer. We help you identify, quantify, and articulate what your business genuinely delivers. Turning real activity into compelling, scored commitments that stand up to scrutiny.

Impact Measurement & Reporting

Using nationally recognised frameworks including the Social Value TOMs, we translate your procurement activity into auditable, financially proxied social value giving commissioners and stakeholders the evidence they need. We certify your procurement processes are defensible under intense scrutiny.

The Procurement Landscape Has Shifted. Here Is What That Means For Your Organisation

In the UK, social value has become a vital element of public sector procurement. A well-developed social value strategy is crucial for any organisation looking to win and deliver public contracts.

Procurement Act 2023: places public benefit and social value at the centre of all contracting authority procurement decisions
Social Value Accounts For a minimum of 10% of scoring criteria across all central government contracts
Social Housing Regulators: is placing increasing scrutiny on how registered providers demonstrate community impact through their investment and procurement decisions
Contractors who cannot evidence social value in their tender responses are losing public sector work to competitors who can
Grant funders including Homes England and the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund require social value reporting as a condition of funding

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What Good Strategy Delivers

For Housing Associations & Registered Providers

Your procurement spend on repairs, maintenance, retrofit, and development represents one of your largest opportunities to generate community benefit.

Done well, social value procurement reduces fuel poverty, creates local employment, supports resident economic wellbeing, and demonstrates to your regulator that your investment is genuinely improving lives not just properties.

For Local Authorities

Every contract you award is a policy instrument. We turns your spend into a tool for community wealth building, keeping money local, supporting SMEs, creating apprenticeships, and delivering against your corporate plan priorities.

We help you design procurement processes that are legally compliant, strategically aligned, and genuinely impactful.

For Contractors & Supply Chain Businesses

Your social value offer is now a commercial differentiator. Organisations that can clearly evidence local employment, skills development, supply chain spend, carbon reduction, and community contribution are winning more work, building stronger client relationships, and positioning themselves ahead of competitors who are still treating social value as an afterthought.

How We Work With You

Find Out What Your Procurement Spend Is Really Worth

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Procurement Audit

We review your current procurement processes, tender documents, contract management frameworks, and social value reporting to establish exactly where you are and where the gaps lie.

Strategy & Framework Development

We build a social value procurement framework tailored to your organisation, aligned to national standards, your community priorities, and your regulatory environment.

Implementation & Embedding

We work alongside your procurement and commissioning teams to embed social value into your tendering processes, evaluation criteria, contract conditions, and supplier management.

Measurement, Monitoring & Reporting

We establish the measurement and reporting infrastructure to track, evidence, and communicate the social value your procurement is generating to your board, your regulator, and your community.

Other ways we can help you deliver Social Value

Social Value Management

Community Needs Assessments

Social Value Auditing

Social Value Delivery

Common FAQS

Within procurement, it refers to the broader benefit that purchases and contracts can deliver to communities directly from public and private expenditure. For example, if a city council is procuring catering services for school meals, instead of choosing the cheapest suppler they may award the contract to an organisation who sources ingredients locally, thus reducing carbon footprint.

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