Setting requirements that reflect local need
Procurement teams need meaningful and proportionate social value requirements that respond to local needs and can be evidenced during delivery.
Set consistent social value expectations, score supplier bids fairly, and collect comparable evidence from delivery partners. Social Value Engine is built for commissioning teams navigating the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023.
Who We Help: Procurement
Measure the outcomes of your contracts and commissioning
Commissioning teams need evidence of delivery and of the outcomes achieved for local communities. The Social Value Engine provides an SROI framework to assess those outcomes and inform procurement decisions.
The challenge
What commissioning teams face
Evaluating supplier commitments consistently
Scoring social value at tender stage is difficult when bids use different frameworks, different metrics, and different financial values for similar outcomes. Without a common measurement framework, comparison is guesswork.
Knowing whether the investment made a difference
Contracts end and KPIs get ticked off, but did the community benefit? Most procurement tools track whether suppliers delivered what they promised. They cannot tell you whether the outcomes were the right ones for the place.
How SVE helps
Built for commissioning teams
The Social Value Engine uses accredited SROI methodology to assess the outcomes of commissioned activity and inform future procurement decisions.
SROI-based requirements
Use our proxy library and accredited methodology to set social value requirements grounded in outcomes and financial values.
Consistent evaluation across bidders
Give all suppliers a common measurement framework so bids can be compared on a like-for-like basis. Reduce the risk of gaming or over-claiming at tender stage.
Evidence that outlasts the contract
Assess the outcomes achieved alongside delivery commitments, and use your SROI evidence to inform the next commissioning round.
Now available
SVE Connect
A dedicated tool for the funder-to-supplier flow
SVE Connect lets commissioners set and track outcome commitments while suppliers provide delivery evidence through a shared reporting framework.
Explore SVE ConnectCommon use cases
What organisations like yours measure
- Setting outcome-focused social value requirements for contracts
- Evaluating and scoring social value in tender responses
- Monitoring supplier social value delivery post-award
- Procurement Act 2023 social value compliance
- Aggregating social value across a commissioning portfolio
- Social value evidence for contract management and audit
- Understanding whether commissioned outcomes matched local need
- Building an evidence base for the next commissioning round
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Are we measuring cash savings, or are we measuring people's lives?
Case studies
See it in practice
Independent sign-off
Need independently verified social value figures for a contract or audit?
When a commissioner, contracting authority or auditor needs more than self-reported social value claims, Assurance gives you an accredited practitioner who independently reviews and signs off the methodology, proxy selection and final SROI report. Procurement Act scrutiny and contract management audits both call for figures that hold up independently.
Learn about AssuranceMake social value work beyond the contract
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