SVE Connect
See what changed across every contract, grant and funded project
SVE Connect helps procurement teams, commissioners, funders and grant-making organisations set consistent outcome expectations, collect evidence from delivery partners and understand the social value created across a whole portfolio.
Move beyond separate spreadsheets, inconsistent reports and output counts. See what your contracts and funding changed, where they made the greatest difference and what should happen next.
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The challenge
Different contracts and grants should not mean different standards of evidence
When several suppliers, grant recipients or delivery partners deliver work on your behalf, social value reporting can quickly become fragmented.
One supplier reports against contractual KPIs. Another sends a spreadsheet of activities. A grant-funded organisation provides a narrative report with no consistent way to assess the outcomes created.
This makes it difficult to:
- Compare results across contracts, grants and projects.
- Understand the collective impact of a programme or portfolio.
- Connect procurement commitments with evidence of delivery.
- Identify gaps, risks or areas requiring further support.
- Challenge unsupported social value claims.
- Report clearly to boards, funders, auditors or communities.
- Use evidence to improve future procurement, funding and commissioning decisions.
SVE Connect gives you a common outcome-measurement framework while allowing each contract, grant or project to reflect the people, place and circumstances involved.
How SVE Connect works
From individual contracts and grants to a complete portfolio view
Set up your programme
Create the contracts, grants, funding streams or projects you want to monitor. Establish a clear structure for what suppliers and delivery partners need to report.
Invite suppliers and delivery partners
Give each organisation access to the relevant project so it can provide information and evidence directly through the platform.
Measure outcomes consistently
Suppliers, grant recipients and delivery partners identify stakeholders, record outcomes and apply appropriate financial proxies using the Social Value Engine's guided SROI methodology.
Review progress and evidence
See what has been entered, examine the evidence behind the figures and identify areas that require clarification or support.
Understand the whole portfolio
Bring results together to understand where value is being created, how outcomes differ and what the evidence means for future procurement, funding and commissioning decisions.
Platform capabilities
Consistent measurement without reducing every project to a tick box
Manage projects across your portfolio
Keep contracts, grants and funded projects within one structured environment rather than managing separate reporting processes for every supplier or delivery partner.
Set outcome-focused expectations
Build social value requirements around the changes you want to create, rather than relying solely on easily counted contractual outputs.
Give delivery partners a common framework
Help different organisations report using consistent principles, while retaining the flexibility to reflect their own services and stakeholders.
Use credible financial proxies
Access more than 650 research-backed financial proxies covering outcomes across health, employment, education, housing, community participation, the environment and other areas.
Apply appropriate impact adjustments
Account for deadweight, attribution, displacement, drop-off and other factors so that reported social value does not simply claim every observed change.
Follow every figure
Trace each result back to the relevant outcome, proxy, source, quantity and adjustment. No unexplained totals or hidden calculations.
Compare and aggregate evidence
Review project results using a shared methodology and build a clearer understanding of the value created across the portfolio.
Integrate with existing systems
API access is available for organisations that need to connect SVE Connect to procurement, contract management or reporting systems.
Who SVE Connect supports
Designed for organisations responsible for contracts, grants and funded programmes
SVE Connect is suitable for organisations that procure, fund, commission or oversee work delivered by several external or internal teams.
Procurement and contract management teams
Connect tender-stage commitments with evidence of what suppliers delivered and what changed after contract award.
Local and combined authorities
Measure outcomes consistently across commissioned services, procurement activity, regeneration programmes, community funding and place-based investment.
Grant-making organisations
Replace disconnected grant reports with a consistent view of the outcomes created across a funding programme.
Housing associations
Understand the collective impact of community investment, resident support, grant programmes, employment initiatives and supplier commitments.
NHS organisations and integrated care systems
Gather consistent outcome evidence across commissioned services, procurement activity, community partners and anchor-institution programmes.
Prime contractors and programme leads
Apply a consistent social value approach across subcontractors, suppliers and other delivery partners.
Which SVE product do you need?
Measure your own work or measure across a portfolio
SVE Platform
For organisations measuring the social value of their own projects, services and activities.
Use it to:
- Complete forecast or evaluative SROI analyses.
- Measure individual projects or organisational programmes.
- Access the SVE financial proxy library.
- Produce transparent, downloadable reports.
SVE Connect
You are hereFor procurement teams, commissioners and grant-making organisations overseeing work delivered by several organisations.
Use it to:
- Establish consistent requirements across contracts and grants.
- Assign projects to suppliers and delivery partners.
- Review evidence across a portfolio.
- Connect procurement commitments with delivered outcomes.
- Understand the collective impact of funding.
- Improve future procurement, funding and commissioning decisions.
Credible by design
Built on accredited SROI methodology
SVE Connect uses the same Social Value International-accredited approach that underpins the Social Value Engine.
Every project is guided by established principles of social value measurement, including understanding change from the perspective of stakeholders, valuing the outcomes that matter and avoiding overclaiming.
SVI-accredited platform
The Social Value Engine has been independently assessed against the Principles of Social Value.
Research-backed proxy library
Choose from more than 650 financial proxies drawn from recognised research, government data and established valuation sources.
Transparent calculations
Every result includes a clear audit trail showing how it was produced.
More than a reporting system
Connect does not simply collect supplier declarations or grant reports. It provides the methodology required to assess the outcomes behind them.
Optional independent assurance
Add practitioner support when the evidence needs to withstand external scrutiny
SVE Connect can be used as a platform-only product or combined with independent support through SVE Assured.
An accredited practitioner can work with you and your delivery partners to:
- Review the programme's outcome-measurement approach.
- Support project setup and theories of change.
- Assess financial proxy selection.
- Review impact adjustments.
- Challenge potential overclaiming.
- Sign off agreed reports.
Assurance can be added where required rather than applied automatically to every project.
Learn about SVE AssuredCommon questions about SVE Connect
Talk to us
Get a clearer view of the value your investment creates
Tell us how your contracts, grants and delivery partners currently report social value. We will show you how SVE Connect can create a more consistent, transparent and useful approach across your portfolio.
No generic sales presentation. We will use the conversation to understand your current process and demonstrate Connect against a relevant portfolio scenario.
