Make social value a strength in your next tender.
Social value is driving major shifts in public and private sector procurement. To win, you need to be prepared. We provide specialist expertise to uncover, evidence and communicate the value that strengthens the social value element of your tenders and bids.
We help time-poor SMEs struggling with social value.
- You're an ambitious SME looking for growth from public and private sector contracting.
- Social value is always the part of the tender you leave until last.
- You don't know where to start, and you're not sure what procurement teams expect.
- You do lot of good things already. But you've never pulled it all together, and you're not measuring it properly.
We'll shape your social value
strategy & tell your story.
Tender strategy & readiness
Review upcoming tender requirements and previous bid feedback to build a strategy that strengthens future submissions and improves your chances of success.
Social value & ESG narrative
Understand what your organisation is already doing and identify the strongest, most relevant stories for your business and the contracts you’re targeting.
Story capture & evidence
Uncover credible evidence, real-world stories and measurable outcomes that substantiate your social value claims, and help you communicate your value in a compelling way.
Social value content & comms
Build a bank of consistent, credible content which can be used to support tender submissions, and can be re-used across multiple channels.
Our methodology ensures you're already prepared...
Strategy & preparation
We identify existing social value activity, understand the procurement expectations and advise where you can make credible commitments.
Measurement & evidence
We establish what to measure, identify the right evidence and recommend practical processes to track progress and demonstrate impact.
Storytelling & comms
We uncover the people and experiences behind the evidence, turning social value activity into credible stories for bids, reports and wider communications.
Recent tender work.
Guiding an energy services firm to strengthen social value for education frameworks
Challenge Our client wanted to strengthen its bids for major education sector retrofit frameworks, where demonstrating wider social value was an important part of the tender process.
Our role We helped their team look beyond the energy efficiency benefits of its retrofit work to identify credible ways it could contribute to schools and pupils. This included learning resources and classroom engagement around energy and sustainability.
Impact The business secured places on major UK frameworks, and has since delivered 100’s of projects alongside wider social impacts.
Strengthening an energy consultancy's social value response for public sector tenders
Challenge Concept Energy needed to strengthen its approach to social value for public sector tenders. Like many SMEs, it was already delivering social value, but this had not been formally identified or brought together.
Our role We helped the team uncover existing social value and supporting evidence. We also advised on how to respond proportionately to tender requirements and make credible commitments without over-promising.
Impact The consultancy now has a clearer framework for demonstrating its impact and developing credible commitments for future tenders.
Helping UK engineering firm meet stringent supply-chain demands from blue-chip clients
Challenge Addison Group is part of a blue-chip supply chain that is making increasingly stringent demands of its suppliers.
Our role Using data analysis, storytelling and creative design, we helped Addison identify and evidence its ESG and social impact. We turned facts into clear, engaging content grounded in real activity, from early careers to digital transformation.
Impact Addison is now better prepared to demonstrate its impact and respond confidently to pre-qualification questionnaires and tenders.
The people behind the projects.
Catherine A'Bear
Public sector contracting.
Catherine offers decades of experience in public sector contracting. She’s provided consultancy services to many of our our clients on bid preparedness.
Sian Clay
Impact-led communications, measurement & strategy.
Sian is an experienced social value and ESG practitioner, with broad client experience across the private sectors.
Tender, procurement & social value
Don't wait for the tender to land before looking for the evidence.
Tell us about your next tender, or what’s coming down the line. We’ll help you get prepared.
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