Social Value: Procurement Act 2023

 Delivered online via Microsoft Teams

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Course Overview

Are you exploring ways to practically embed Social Value through procurement? Do you need to further your knowledge of the new procurement requirements?

With the Procurement Act 2023 now in force and with an increased emphasis upon embedding Social Value (encompassing local economic, social and environmental considerations), local authorities and public sector bodies will need to learn how Social Value and other requirements of the Act can be included in procurement processes.

Whilst having been a legislative requirement of the Public Services (Social Value) Act since 2012, local authorities and other public bodies have sometimes struggled to include Social Value considerations across the entirety of the Procurement process.

This training will provide practical advice as to how Social Value can be considered during the six steps of the ‘Cycle of Procurement’ and including during spend analysis, in the design of services, in tender processes and evaluation, and during contract monitoring

Who should attend?

Social Value should be a cross-department consideration and not restricted to the procurement function alone. To support councils with this, the training is designed for a wide variety of roles, including:

 Data Analysts and Researchers.

 Those with responsibility for developing Strategy.

 Service Heads and Managers with responsibility for commissioning goods, services and works.

 Economic Development Officers.

 Procurement Heads and Officers.

 Contract Managers.

Learning Outcomes

During this course you will:

 Appreciate the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 regarding SME engagement, lotting of contracts, reserving contracts, and embedding local economic, social and environmental considerations.

 Consider how Social Value can be embedded across each step of the ‘Cycle of Procurement’ and to explore examples from elsewhere.

 Evaluate how Social Value can be applied in practice through working on a fictional procurement exercise.

 Develop the skills required to embed Social Value considerations in procurement in your own local authority, public sector bodies or context.

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