Response A1345563

Response to request for information

Response date

7 September 2021

Request

I would like to request any information you have available in written or electronic format in data spreadsheet or Word/text document, regarding procurement and/or tender results decided by the authority, relating to the Social Value (Public Services) Act 2012 - specifically the following:

For each completed procurement exercise or tender where a Social Value component has formed part of the award criteria:

• Name of organisation winning the tender or contract
• The winning organisation's social value created as a monetary amount, provided as part of their final submission or offer
• The winning organisation's social value investment amount, or input cost monetary amount, submitted as part of their final submission or offer
• Value of the tender or contract
• Duration of the tender or contract
• The name of the Social Value framework (if any) utilised by the winning tender for valuations of social value created.

Response

The Council does not specifically record details of award criteria that has been used, relating to the Social Value (Public Services) Act 2012.

Please note that details of the Council’s current contracts can be found within the ProContract online Contracts Register.

Council Officers consider the economic, environmental and social benefits of their approaches to procurement before commencing a procurement process:

• how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the “relevant area”
• how in conducting a procurement process it might act with a view to securing that improvement whether to undertake a consultation on these matters

This approach is relevant and proportionate to the services contract being procured, and the Council will often carry out Soft Market Testing and user engagement/consultation as part of the pre-procurement process (where relevant).