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Getting listed on a framework is a significant milestone. After the effort of a compliant application, it’s tempting to treat Social Value as a box ticked. For most frameworks, that’s not how it works. Your Social Value…
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Ever submitted a bid you were genuinely proud of, only to get a score back that didn’t match the effort? It happens to good suppliers more often than you’d think, and it’s rarely down to the quality of what you’re…
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Social Value is now a scored, weighted criterion in most public sector tenders, and for many suppliers, it’s where marks are being lost that should have been won. The challenge isn’t usually a lack of genuine…
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If you’ve been following Social Value in public sector procurement, you’ll know the landscape has been shifting quickly. PPN 06/20 was superseded. PPN 002 came in. And now, just days ago, the government published PPN…
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