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:

DCMS areas of research interest GOV UK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop new procurement markets in high value sectors, in consortia with social enterprises and private businesses, which could potentially lead to better outcomes for people and communities.

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: FIRESOULS LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly addresses the question by developing a platform that applies the Social Value Act to government procurement, aiming to generate new resources for local communities.

  • Reportable Social Value Smart Procurment Platform

    The Key objective of Phase 1 of this project is to develop, test and prepare to commercialise a 'Reportable Social Value (RSV) Smart Procurement Platform', for the incorporation of social value into procurement decisions...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: DATA PERFORMANCE CONSULTANCY LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is developing a procurement platform that incorporates social value into procurement decisions, which could lead to better outcomes for communities.

  • An Urgent Review of Single Source Procurement During the Pandemic: Recommendations for Best Practice and Reform

    Public procurement has played a vital role in the COVID-19 response with over 1 billion items of equipment sourced across the UK. However, procurement has not been subject to rigorous analysis. Ordinarily, contracts must...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham

  • Building a Real-time Model of the UK Public Sector Procurement Industry

    Transforming UK public procurement is a major government priority. New initiatives (outlined in a recent Green Paper) place procurement-transformation at the heart of post-COVID-19 economic recovery. Additionally, Januar...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: STOTLE LTD.

  • Optimising Outcomes from Procurement and Partnering for Covid-19 and Beyond: Lessons from the Crisis

    Public procurement is firmly in the spotlight in the Covid-19 crisis. Local authorities (LAs) spend around £100bn (or 47% of their total budget) annually on procurement (IoG,2018). In the Covid-19 crisis, it is cru...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Stirling