Procurement Act 2023 compliance
The Procurement Act creates significant new obligations for businesses bidding on public contracts. Demonstrating social value at bid stage and evidencing delivery both require a robust, credible approach.
Measure, report, and demonstrate the social value of your business's community investment, supply chain programmes, and ESG commitments — producing credible SROI evidence your stakeholders, investors, and boards can rely on.
Who We Help: Private Sector
Social Value for the Private Sector
Manage commitments. Evidence delivery. Understand the impact your business creates.
Businesses, contractors and developers are increasingly expected to show what their social value commitments achieve in practice. The Social Value Engine family gives you tools for both sides of that task: managing live delivery across contracts and programmes, and measuring the outcomes and social value created. Use SVE Delivery to track commitments, targets, progress and evidence. Use the SVE Platform when you need deeper outcome measurement, SROI and credible reporting for clients, boards, funders or investors.
The challenge
What organisations in your sector face
ESG social pillar credibility
ESG reporting is under increasing scrutiny from investors and regulators. Generic claims about community investment are no longer enough. Investors want quantified, auditable evidence of social outcomes.
Avoiding social value washing
Unsubstantiated social value claims are reputationally risky. Without a recognised measurement framework, businesses expose themselves to challenge from clients, civil society, and the media.
How SVE helps
Built for how you work
Build bids and carry commitments into delivery
Use SVE Delivery to develop bids with place-based data and reusable evidence packs, then convert won bids into live contracts with targets, progress updates and evidence.
Produce credible SROI evidence
Use the SVE Platform to understand outcomes, value change and create transparent social return on investment reports.
Strengthen ESG social reporting
Build an evidence base around community investment, employee activity, skills, employment and other social outcomes using a consistent methodology.
Coordinate delivery partners when required
For prime contractors or organisations overseeing several suppliers and delivery partners, SVE Connect can provide a common structure for collecting and reviewing social value evidence.
Common use cases
What organisations like yours measure
- Managing social value commitments across public sector contracts
- Tracking progress against social value KPIs and targets
- Keeping supporting evidence with live delivery
- Preparing evidence for client and contract review meetings
- SROI evidence for public sector bids and contract reporting
- ESG social pillar and community investment reporting
- Employee volunteering and skills-sharing impact measurement
- Connecting delivered activity to outcomes and social value
From bid to delivery
Keep the commitment connected to what actually happened
Social value often begins during a bid, but the evidence is created during delivery.
SVE Delivery gives teams a structured place to develop the social value element of a bid using place-based data and reusable evidence packs. When a bid is won, it can be converted into a live contract so the original commitments continue into targets, progress updates and supporting evidence throughout delivery.
Where a commitment leads to a meaningful outcome that needs deeper evaluation, the Social Value Engine provides the next layer of analysis.
Bid commitment
Target
Activity
Progress
Evidence
Outcome
Impact
Inside SVE Delivery
See what is happening across live social value delivery
Give delivery, bid and account teams a shared view of contract progress, supporting evidence and the information needed for client reporting.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Teams can use SVE Delivery at bid stage to understand local need through place-based data and draw on reusable evidence packs when developing their social value response. If the bid is won, it can be converted into a live contract so the commitments, KPIs and targets carry through into delivery, progress tracking and reporting.
Yes. You can build a bid around your proposed commitments and KPIs, or bring existing requirements into SVE Delivery. When a bid becomes a contract, those commitments can be carried forward into a consistent delivery structure without forcing every contract into an identical set of measures.
Yes. Reusable evidence packs can support bid development, while delivery evidence can be kept with the relevant commitment and progress update once work is live. This creates a traceable record instead of leaving information spread across bid folders, inboxes, shared drives and separate spreadsheets.
SVE Delivery manages the operational record from bid development through contract delivery, including commitments, targets, activity, progress and evidence. Where delivered activity needs deeper outcome or SROI analysis, relevant information can connect into the Social Value Engine for impact measurement and reporting.
Knowledge Hub
Guides and resources for your sector
Build the social value evidence your clients and investors expect
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