CCG FOI 658 – Public Service/Social Values

Responded to: 8th September 2016

1. A copy of, or link to, the CCG’s social value policy, strategy, framework or similar document if there is one.

Please see attached Sustainability Commitments document –

2.  How has the CCG applied the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 in its commissioning, tendering and grant making? The NHS Standard Contract must be used by CCGs and by NHS England where they wish to   contract for NHS-funded healthcare services regardless of length of contract or value. The NHS standard contract service conditions state that The Provider must, in performing its obligations under this Contract, give due regard to the impact of its expenditure on the community, over and above the direct purchase of goods and services, as envisaged by the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.

3. Has the CCG applied the concept of social value below the OJEU threshold for services, or for contracts other than for services? Please see Question 2
4. The percentage and number of tenders over the past 12 months where the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 has been applied and social value considered (that is to say, how much use does the CCG make of the Act).  All NHS-funded healthcare services tenders have been awarded through the supply of an NHS standard contract which applies the Act. Number of tenders awarded are published on the CCGs website
5. Where social value has been considered and is weighted in assessing tenders, what is the typical weighting for social value in the CCG’s scoring across those contracts? All NHS-funded healthcare services tenders have the social value act considered where appropriate through a tender checklist to consider the appropriateness of specified service to deliver added social value and whether to consider questions within the bidder response questionnaire. Typically it is not a weighted question but it is a condition within the eventual contract that the provider give due regard to the impact of its expenditure on the community, over and above the direct purchase of goods and services, as envisaged by the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting.  Any other reuse, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.  Most documents supplied by NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group will have been produced by Government officials and will be Crown Copyright.