Social Value

Chorley Council recognises the important role it can play in enabling Social Value through procurement activity and has implemented a Social Value Policy which outlines how the council intends to achieve this. For relevant contracts above £100,000 (and possibly lower), the council will require potential suppliers to submit details on how they will deliver social value through delivery of the contract. This will be given a percentage weighting and will form part of the assessment of submissions.

The National Social Value Measurement Framework (the 'National TOMs') will be used to embed Social Value in the council's procurement process, and contract manage its delivery through regular data entry and reporting. The council has partnered with The Social Value Portal to help support and facilitate this process.

The National TOMs Framework contains 4 principal issues or 'themes', 14 core 'outcomes' and 38 core 'measures' ('TOMs'):

• themes - overarching strategic themes.
• outcomes - objectives or goals that will realise the delivery of the themes.
• measures - specific and measurable initiatives or activities that can be delivered to achieve the outcomes.

The National TOMs Framework is designed to provide measures that suppliers can deliver as part of their local authority contracts. A customised version of the National TOMs will be used to measure the additional Social Value generated through Chorley Council's procurement process. To find out more about the TOMs framework, visit The Social Value Portal