MHA+ building social value priority measures

We incorporate social value principles into our Medium Schemes Framework (MSF) in a number of ways, including a requirement that each scheme assesses how it contributes to delivering social value.

The Employment and Skills Plan (ESP) has 14 targets, which are selected, agreed and monitored for all schemes over £1 million. This plan is augmented by 14 MHA+ building social value (BSV) priorities tracking, which are related but separate from the ESP targets.

The tracker targets and themes are compliant with both Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 6/20, for the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) (PDF, 54KB), and PPN 002, for the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023) (PDF, 249KB).

This consistency in MHA+ processes for defining social value is standardised, and provides a clear, systematic way for local authority members to be given data to evaluate and evidence how their procurement delivers value for money, economic growth and social value.

MHA+ building social value priorities were based on the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) Building Social Value Assessment (PDF, 916KB). We hoped to partner with CCS, but developed our own MHA+ building social value (BSV) priorities instead.

Projects complete a spreadsheet to capture additional social value outputs and achievements on MSF schemes. This is available to download by MHA+ members on the secure MHA+ Information Sharing Platform (ISP).

Commissioners can use the ESP and BSV metrics to report on how use of MHA+ frameworks enables them to evidence compliance with social value models, as defined in both PPN 6/20, for PCR 2015, and PPN 002, for PA 2023.

The BSV monitoring page provides a summary of the values identified to meet a range of MHA+ priorities for the MSF3 and MSF4 schemes.

CCS has developed a best practice hub, which includes content on social value.