Social Value in Construction

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* 1. Organisation name

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* 2. Your name

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* 3. Email address

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* 4. Phone number

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* 5. Which of these choices most nearly reflects how your organisation defines social value? Or add your own definition at the end.

The additional benefit from a procurement process over and above the direct purchasing of the goods and services themselves

The positive social, environmental and economic impact that an activity has on stakeholders beyond what would have happened anyway

Procuring goods, services, works and utilities in a way that not only achieves value for money but also generates benefits for society, the economy and the environment

Activities which will create strong and connected public, private and social sectors that enable communities to be more resilient

The wider impacts of programmes and organisations on the wellbeing of individuals, communities, society and the environment

Or add your own definition

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* 6. On average, what % of procurement scoring do you give for social value activities?

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* 7. Please tick which of these social value activities you typically procure?

Supporting previously unemployed people into work

Supporting vulnerable groups into work

Providing access to apprenticeships for local people

Providing skills development and training

Providing outreach to local schools and experience for pupils

Paying the living wage

Paying suppliers fairly and promptly

Equality and diversity initiatives in the workplace

Using local sources and materials

Supporting local companies to be procurement ready

Funding/volunteering for local causes/charities

Thorough community engagement

Provision of community initiatives or facilities

Responsible design concerning access and affordability

Initiatives to promote health and wellbeing of employees and/or locals

Initiatives to provide environments that are safe and community focused

Initiatives to minimise crime

Sourcing ethically

Low carbon sourcing

None - social value does not play any part in our contracts

Other (please specify)

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* 8. How do you set and justify social value targets?

Using industry benchmarks or tools

Known capabilities of the tenderers

Dictated by procurement team

Outcomes from previous projects

Past experience/understanding of good practice

Best guesses/proportional based on experience

Balancing costs of social value and project budget/size

Not applicable - social value does not play any part in our construction procurement

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* 9. How do you measure and monitor social value?

use of an agreed evaluation method with identified metrics, and monitored throughout the project

use of an agreed evaluation method with identified metrics, and evaluated at the end of the project

monitoring and enforcement of basic contractual obligations

Contractor takes a lead on recording social value

No formal monitoring, evaluation and recording of social value

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* 10. How often do you use the following tools?

	Always	Often	Sometimes	Rarely	Never	Not applicable
HACT	HACT Always	HACT Often	HACT Sometimes	HACT Rarely	HACT Never	HACT Not applicable
LM3	LM3 Always	LM3 Often	LM3 Sometimes	LM3 Rarely	LM3 Never	LM3 Not applicable
Social Value Portal TOMS	Social Value Portal TOMS Always	Social Value Portal TOMS Often	Social Value Portal TOMS Sometimes	Social Value Portal TOMS Rarely	Social Value Portal TOMS Never	Social Value Portal TOMS Not applicable
Other 1	Other 1 Always	Other 1 Often	Other 1 Sometimes	Other 1 Rarely	Other 1 Never	Other 1 Not applicable
Other 2	Other 2 Always	Other 2 Often	Other 2 Sometimes	Other 2 Rarely	Other 2 Never	Other 2 Not applicable

Please name the 'other 1' and 'other 2' examples if included

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* 11. What do you think are the critical factors involved in achieving high levels of social value? Please choose the top 3 factors from the list below

Specificity in the tender brief

Flexibility in the tender brief

Having contractual obligations to deliver and measure social value

Supply-chain engagement and buy-in

Close collaboration with the main contractor

Close collaboration with their supply chain

Robust and regular monitoring

Availability of tools and methodologies to measure social value

Sufficient resources to monitor

Sufficient resources to evaluate

Political will

Other (please specify)

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* 12. What are the challenges in delivering social value? Please tick all that apply

Lack of understanding of what social value is

Conflicts with other objectives and requirements

Aligning with actual local needs

Currently developing own strategy for social value

Lack of contractual obligations for social value delivery

Contractual inflexibility for social value delivery

Effective collaboration and communication with the contractor

Achieving stakeholder and community engagement and buy-in

Lack of leadership support for social value delivery

Partnering and collaboration between suppliers

Partnering and collaboration with the community and local businesses

Developing an effective plan to deliver social value

Availability of tools and methodologies to deliver and measure social value

Availability of resources and skills to deliver and measure social value

Budget to deliver social value

Constraining time frames

Conflicting/misaligned economic, social and environmental aspects

Local context constraining effectiveness

Other (please specify)

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* 13. In your view, on average how much of the social value contracted actually gets delivered?

All

Most

Some

Little

None

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* 14. Lastly, would you be happy for us to contact you to discuss your good practice examples to support the development of our report?

Yes

Thank you so much for completing this survey, we really appreciate your time. The survey analysis will feed into a final report and recommendations which will be launched at a special event, planned to coincide with a meeting of the new APPG for Economic Development.

The IED is extremely grateful to our partner sponsors - Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Arup, Atkins, The Supply Chain Sustainability School and Commonplace, without whom this project would not be possible. In addition we are also very thankful for the support of CITB and CECA North West.

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