What is social value?
Social value is a way of thinking about how scarce resources are allocated and used. It prompts us to ask if £1 is spent on the delivery of goods, services or works, can that same £1 be used also to produce a wider social, economic or environmental benefit to the community in Suffolk. Read our social value and sustainable procurement policy (PDF, 447KB).
Bidding for contracts
When we commission goods, services and works we will consider how we can bring social Value additional benefits to our communities in the way the services or goods are outlined in the service specification or outline of requirements in our contracts.
We will also ask bidders to submit their social value offer with their bid and this will be evaluated and scored alongside price and the quality evaluation criteria.
If we would like you to focus your social value offer on a specific benefit we will outline that in the specification and/or the bid evaluation criteria. How much we weight the social value evaluation criteria will vary dependent, on what is being tendered and the experience of the market in articulating the Social Value in their bid.
You can use our social value summary tool (PDF) to help you map the additionality you offer and how to evidence it.
Our social value ask
Our social value ask outlines our commissioners priorities and how you can deliver social value in Suffolk to benefit our communities.
