Social Value Statement

We are committed to being a leader in social value, ensuring you have the right commercial solutions to deliver real benefits, whether that means creating more apprenticeships, reducing carbon emissions in your local area, or addressing your unique local priorities. We achieve this by listening to our customers, understanding your needs, and learning from other organisations.

We ensure that all relevant new deals offer social value opportunities and provide the flexibility to specify and evaluate social value at call-off. Our current deals are continually reviewed to identify new social value opportunities, and we work closely with our suppliers to ensure they are ready to meet your requirements. Additionally, we provide tools and guidance to help you integrate social value into your procurements and measure its impact, making these resources available for all your procurements, not just when buying from CCS.

Social Value Policy Public Services Social Value Act PDF

Delivering Social Value for Crown Commercial Service with whatimpact

Why Crown Commercial have partnered with whatimpact to deliver Social Value

In January 2013 the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 became effective. Its aim is to help commissioners secure more value for money out of the services they procure, by encouraging commissioners to source new and innovative means of delivering services.

The Act requires public authorities to consider, in the pre-procurement stage, whether the procurement can improve the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the relevant area and whether consultation is needed to enable this.

 

Crown Commercial are engaging our suppliers to deliver meaningful Social Value

On many of our agreements suppliers are ready to help you meet social value objectives, such as fighting climate change or tackling inequality, making it easier for you to take account of the latest public procurement policies. By partnering with whatimpact, we want to ensure that public spending generates additional economic, social and environmental benefits beyond just the goods or services being procured.
We want our suppliers to consider social value as early as possible, ideally when your requirement is still in the pre-procurement / development phase. The decisions you make during this stage will be integral to the final contract and the type of suppliers that will perform it. It needs to be right from the start. By partnering with whatimpact, our suppliers will be able to create tangible, contract-specific social value plans.

For Suppliers

  • Nationwide VCSE matchmaking
  • Hyper-local social value delivery
  • 300,000+ VCSEs with local projects
  • Verified social value impact reporting
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For VCSEs

  • Connect with companies with donations to give
  • Request money, products, and skill-based volunteers
  • Streamlined social value impact reporting tool
  • Grant reward for each social value impact report
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