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The PPN 026 guidance is due this autumn, and it will settle how the new Social Value Model works in practice: the sub-criteria, the evaluation methodology, the List of Community Programmes and the definitions of target cohorts. Until it arrives, nobody can say for...
The EU Public Procurement Act, proposed by the European Commission on 9 September 2026, would replace the three directives that have governed European public procurement since 2014 with a single Regulation, and it changes how social value counts in public contracts....
From 1 January 2027, a new Social Value Model decides up to a fifth of your score on central government contracts. PPN 026 replaces the PPN 002 Model, narrows social value to jobs and skills, and makes delivery against your commitments public. For suppliers, the...
PPN 026 will soon replace PPN 002 as the Social Value Model for central government, and it changes the system more than any update since the Model was created. But comparing PPN 026 with PPN 002 is harder than it looks, because most of what made PPN 002 work in...
On 5 August 2026 the Cabinet Office published Procurement Policy Note 026, a new Social Value Model for central government. It replaces the PPN 002 Model that has governed central government tenders since 1 October 2025 and applies to procurements commenced on or...
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Social value is now firmly established in public procurement, with weightings, evaluation criteria and a minimum 10% score. But what happens after the contract is signed? At Westminster Insight's Social Value in Procurement...
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes For years, social value has been treated largely as a bid-stage discipline. Contracting authorities have built sophisticated systems for scoring what suppliers promise. Far less has gone into managing what suppliers actually deliver...
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes The UK Government has spent the past two years building the framework for social value accountability in public procurement. With the publication of the Contract Management Playbook (March 2026), it has now provided the instruction...
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes The government’s response to the “Public Procurement: Growing British Industry, Jobs and Skills” consultation has landed, with clear implications for how social value is delivered in public procurement. Based on 811 responses, it...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Getting Proportionality Right in Social Value Procurement - Key Takeaways Under the Procurement Act 2023, every social value requirement in a public procurement must be proportionate to the nature, cost, and complexity of the...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Insights from our webinar “From Policy to Proof: Delivering Social Value and Value for Money in Central Government”, which took place in March 2026 and predates the arrival of PPN 026 in August 2026. Key Takeaways Social value is...
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes The Procurement Act 2023 introduced up to 17 mandatory notice types spanning the full procurement lifecycle, from pipeline planning to published contract performance ratings. This blog explains what these transparency requirements...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Procurement Act 2023: What Changes on 1 April 2026 From 1 April 2026, new transparency provisions under the Procurement Act 2023 come into force. These introduce payment reporting, supplier registration on the Central Digital...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Key Takeaways Clarity in social value procurement processes boosts supplier competitiveness and ensures better project outcomes. Commissioning authorities should address key questions about contract goals, reporting, and evaluation...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes The Procurement Act 2023 has made contract performance more visible and more exposed. For most contracts over £5 million, KPIs must be set before award, published, and assessed annually. Performance is no longer just managed...
Platforms that reduce supplier burden produce better data, stronger assurance, and lower risk Every organisation depends on suppliers to evidence social value delivery. Yet the people responsible for collecting and submitting that information are rarely social value...
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes In the conversation around PPN 002, there has been - understandably - a heavy focus on the Social Value Model’s Missions, Model Award Criteria (MACs), and Standard Reporting Metrics (SRMs). Much less attention has been paid to the...
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The Procurement Act 2023 and the PPN 002 Social Value Model include two critical provisions that will help Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs) and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprises (VCSEs) to win a greater share of...
The Procurement Act 2023 introduced mandatory published Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - written into contracts and tracked over time - into UK procurement law for the first time. Days before the Act came into force in February 2025, PPN 002 and the new...
The Procurement Act 2023 has had a significant impact on social value since it came into force in February 2025. We’ve summarised the most important effects of the Procurement Act previously, but in this blog we’re going to focus on the Exclusion and Debarment regime:...
PPN 002 and Social Value Model Explainer series The Procurement Act 2023 changed the grounds for awarding contracts in competitive processes to “Most Advantageous Tender”. Before the Act, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 had ruled that the basis should be...
PPN 002 and Social Value Model Explainer series One of the new elements introduced in the PPN 002 Social Value Model is the idea of “Standard Reporting Metrics” (SRMs) - that is, officially mandated ways in which certain types of social value should be measured and...
PPN 002 and Social Value Model Explainer series: For Contracting Authorities In public procurement, social value is all about making sure that communities benefit as much as possible from every pound of public money spent. So it follows that, for any spending...
PPN 002 and Social Value Model Explainer series: For Contracting Authorities The Procurement Act 2023, the National Procurement Policy Statement, PPN 002, and the new Social Value Model all make one thing very clear: The government wants to direct a greater proportion...
In July 2025, NHS England published the NHS Social Value Playbook. The document sets out guidance on how social value is to be treated in NHS procurement, both: During the transitional period between PPN06/20 and PPN 002 (February to September 2025) Once PPN 002 is in...
The weeks and months are counting down until PPN 002 supercedes PPN06/20, which will bring changes affecting contracting authorities with PPN002. What does the switch from 2021’s Social Value Model to the 2025 version mean for central government procurement...
How To Implement The New Social Value Model Missions in your Business This blog looks at PPN 002 and the Social Value Model published in February 2025. This Model applies only to in-scope contracts published between October 2025 and August 2026, some of those...
How To Implement The New Social Value Model Missions in your Business This blog looks at PPN 002 and the Social Value Model published in February 2025. This Model applies only to in-scope contracts published between October 2025 and August 2026, some of those...
How To Implement The New Social Value Model Missions in your Business This blog looks at PPN 002 and the Social Value Model published in February 2025. This Model applies only to in-scope contracts published between October 2025 and August 2026, some of those...
How To Implement The New Social Value Model Missions in your Business This blog looks at PPN 002 and the Social Value Model published in February 2025. This Model applies only to in-scope contracts published between October 2025 and August 2026, some of those...
How To Implement The New Social Value Model Missions in your Business This blog looks at PPN 002 and the Social Value Model published in February 2025. This Model applies only to in-scope contracts published between October 2025 and August 2026, some of those...
On February 24 2025, the Procurement Act 2023 came into force - shaking up the face of UK public procurement dramatically. After a long trek through Parliament - starting in May 2022 and finally receiving Royal Assent in October 2023 - it took a further 15...
As of August 2026, new in-scope central government procurements are governed by PPN 002 or PPN 026 at the discretion of the commissioning authority. From January 2027, PPN 026 becomes mandatory. However, many contracts signed before October 2025 are still governed...
This article was published on the release of PPN 002 in February 2025. In August 2026, a replacement Model, PPN 026, was published to take effect in January 2027. Find out more about PPN 026 here. On February 13 - just 11 days before the implementation of the...
Winning public tenders often hinges on demonstrating not just your ability to deliver, but also the positive impact you can create for the wider community. Understanding how to answer the social value question has become increasingly important and crafting a...
