Social Value

With the rising importance of Social Value in the world of bids and proposals, the new APMP UK Social Value Group is here to help members get to grips with the subject. The Group includes 12 Social Value enthusiasts who are committed to helping you:

Understand Social Value and how best to approach it in bids.

Boost your Social Value tender scores.

Advise your employers and clients to embrace Social Value.

Guide your customers to ask sensible Social Value questions.

Build Social Value into dialogue during Capture.

Watch out in the near future for :

The next in our webinar series with Social Value experts.

A monthly discussion group/surgery where you can share you experiences and debate Social Value challenges with group members and other APMP colleagues.

A monthly blog published on the APMP UK website.

If you are interested in sharing or improving your Social Value knowledge, join the APMP UK Community Social Value area now.

Social Value Community Area

Recent posts

Social Value Survey Report 2024

24 February 2024

Today, we are delighted to publish our second survey – showing how a good sample of the bidding community feels about buyers’ and suppliers’ social value maturity, overall and at different stages of the procurement lifecycle....

Capturing Social Value

29 January 2024

Explore the wisdom of building social value into your sales campaigns before the formal procurement phase begins. - Written by Sarah Hinchliffe...

9 top tips for writing a good Social Value bid response

04 September 2023

Our guest blog this month is written by Lorraine O’Donovan of SLR Consulting. Lorraine’s ‘9 Top Tips’ complement our newly-published ‘How To’ guides, which you can find in the APMP Resource Library....

Social Value: Employing prison leavers and ex-offenders.

05 May 2023

An important aspect of the Government’s agenda on social value, is to provide work for those who face barriers to employment and........

Social Value by Design

11 April 2023

A simple concept to help embed Social Value into the hearts and minds of everyone involved in growing the economy....

Policies that deliver social value: Domestic Abuse and the Workplace

02 February 2023

Can a workplace policy contribute to meeting social value targets?...

How we became better at delivering Social Value

04 January 2023

Are you feeling overwhelmed by Social Value? You're not alone....

A Disadvantage of Social Value – An International Business Lens

03 October 2022

While Social Value is recognised as a meaningful mechanism to ensure that Government contracting delivers benefit to local communities an......

Social Value: The Bidders’ Perspective

21 September 2022

It’s just over a year since we formed the APMP UK Social Value Group. We set out to help members understand......

Social Value Strategy - The Need for a Functional Approach

15 July 2022

What functions contribute the most to the roll-out of an effective social value strategy?...

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