Social, environmental and economic benefits from every pound of public money you spend
At CCS, we’re not just about helping you to save money. Our commercial agreements are collaborative tools to help you improve the lives of citizens across the UK.
That’s why we’re ensuring our agreements can empower you to achieve the specific social value benefits you need, whether that is:
Every contract the public sector signs is an opportunity to build back better, fairer and greener. So, we will help you build social value into every step of the procurement process.
Every public sector organisation should factor social value into their procurements. Think COVID-19 recovery, tackling economic inequality, fighting climate change, equal opportunities and wellbeing.
We take a ‘whole market’ approach by talking to customers at the earliest opportunity to get a clear understanding of their needs, and to suppliers to explore what the market can provide.
At the tender stage we ask suppliers to demonstrate how their policies, strategies, systems and ways of working will help you achieve the social, economic and environmental benefits you seek.
We’ve worked hard to address payment practices so more invoices are paid from suppliers to their supply chains within 60 days – encouraging smaller, regional and more specialist suppliers to do business with us.
Ark Schools achieved social value by using our Building Cleaning Services commercial agreement to procure its cleaning contract
Read more about Academy schools group implements social value with cleaning contractDavid Bemrose explains how Crown Commercial Service is working with local government and suppliers to build social value into public procurement
Read more about Social value: how local government is leading the waySimon Tse, CEO of Crown Commercial Service, delivered the keynote address at Public Sector Show 2021
Read more about Public Sector Show 2021: read Simon Tse’s keynote speechCCS policy statement on social value
Procurement policy note 06/20: taking account of social value in the award of central government contracts: this procurement policy note (PPN) shares a new model to achieve social value through government’s commercial activities.
We will discuss the implications of the Social Value Act on public sector buyers and the growing demand for social value through contracts.
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