To what extent does greater voluntary, community and social enterprise participation in procurement lead to better outcomes for people and communities including young people?
Background
CSY is keen to develop its evidence base in order to better understand how it can best support the growth and resilience of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors to foster a strong and healthy civil society.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Queen's University Belfast and Ashton Community Trust
To develop new procurement markets in high value sectors, in consortia with social enterprises and private businesses. To deliver an understanding of key sectors, create a procurement toolkit and develop more effective s...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop new procurement markets with social enterprises and private businesses, creating social value metrics.
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Development of the Firesouls platform - an online, closed bid Social Value auction
Firesouls aims to provide all UK government organisations with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) auction platform that generates new resources for local communities. It does this by applying the Social Value Act to governme...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on applying the Social Value Act to government procurement to generate resources for local communities.
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Verifying impact through direct access to community networks
The Social Value Act allows government to drive social and environmental impact through its supply chains, with third party spend of approximately £270bn a year. It can use its spending power to effect a shift in ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the impact of Social Value Act on government contracts and aims to improve the link between Social Value commitments and delivery.