Issue - decisions

15/11/2024 - Cabinet Members' Items - Report of the Assets Portfolio Holder - A.7 - Social Value Policy - Essex Procurement Partnership

RESOLVED that Cabinet -

 

(a)    approves the Social Value Policy, as set out in Appendix A to item A.7 of the Report of the Assets Portfolio Holder, for recommendation onto Full Council for adoption;

(b)    authorises the Portfolio Holder for Assets (with responsibility for procurement) to approve changes to the list of Social Value Measures in the TOMs Calculator, where those measures deliver on the Outcomes agreed by Cabinet;

(c)    authorises the Director (Governance) (with responsibility for procurement) to approve the removal of TOMs measures for specific procurements, in order to meet the Public Contracts Regulations requirements for relevance, proportionality to the subject matter of the contract and non-discrimination; and

(d)    endorses an annual social value statement to reaffirm their goals to suppliers and measuring social value progress.