Social Value Training Course
Our social value training courses will provide your team with the skills and knowledge to understand the topic of social value and reasons behind it and, more importantly, how to approach and implement social value in your organisation. This might be as part of your own organisational agenda, or as part of your company’s strategy to secure public sector contracts.
Course agenda
Our social value in tendering course is designed to support a stronger fundamental understanding of social value and its application in the public sector tendering process. Key topics addressed include:
- What is social value, considering key principles within a number of recognised definitions to arrive at our own simplified version to take forward
- What social value is in the context of public procurement, what’s driving it and why it is often a source of competitive advantage (or disadvantage)
- What separates it from similar concepts such as CSR and ESG and what this means in the context of a tender at both selection and award stage
- The different categories of social value and identifying these in our existing activities, illustrated by practical examples of how social value can be created
- Measurement, monitoring and evaluation methodologies, recognising these need to consider both quantitative and qualitative impacts
- How best to respond to questions on social value in public sector tenders, recognising the key principles which need to be covered in each instance
- Priority areas – i.e. how to identify and research what purchasing authorities are looking for, whether you work with central government, local government or both.
Key outcomes for the bid and tender training include cascading a shared awareness of and commitment to social value across your team, as well as developing the skills required to demonstrate social value to buyers in a competitive environment.
What you will learn
After attending the course, your team will understand how social value connects to all parts of the operation and management of your organisation.
Alongside a stronger theoretical understanding of what constitutes social value, participants will become more confident in responding to social value questions in tenders. In particular, you will become more competent producing high-scoring responses that align with the particular objectives, aims and priorities of diverse buyers, both in terms of the commitments that you make as well as the way you develop, monitor, record and improve upon your social value activity.
Requirement
With social value now a mandatory component in above-threshold central government tenders and an ever-increasing focus in local authorities’ and other sub-central buyer’s procurements too, this course is recommended for any organisation looking to win work with the public sector.
In particular, the course is designed for organisations looking to strengthen their social value strategy – both in practical terms and also in the context of responding to tender questions.
No prior knowledge of social value is required; your trainer will tailor the course to reflect your baseline understanding.
Delivery
Our training is delivered by an experienced bid writing practitioner with a comprehensive understanding of social value, having received training from Social Value UK.
The training is delivered online via Teams, Zoom or equivalent, at a date and time to suit you. The collaborative, workshop environment encourages active participation, underpinned by worked examples and practical scenarios to consolidate understanding. As the training will be delivered directly to your organisation rather than in a generalist ‘open-access’ environment, all aspects of the course will respond directly to your unique context and requirements.
We deliver the course to any number of participants, ranging from a single delegate on a one-to-one basis, through to a group of delegates from across your organisation.
Price
Prices start at £1,499 + VAT, for the workshop in its entirety, covering up to 20 attendees.
Contact us for a bespoke price, dependent on your requirements.
95.00% average rating for the overall quality of the training received based on feedback from delegates who have attended social value training sessions in 2024.