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Date 24 Nov 2020 - 24 Nov 2020

Time 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Meeting Agenda

16:00-16:05 Intro by Chair Anne Davies, University of Oxford Law Faculty

16:05-16:40 Discussion: ‘Social Value’ in public procurement & contract management

Context: In September 2020, the UK government issued Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 06/20 launching “a new model to deliver social value through government's commercial activities”. From January 1 2021, social value should be “explicitly evaluated in all central government procurement, where the requirements are related and proportionate to the subject-matter of the contract, rather than just ‘considered’ as currently required under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012” (UK Government, 2020).

Background Resources:

Prompt for Panel: What are the strengths and weakness of the “new model” and requirement to explicitly evaluate social value in PPN 06/12? How might commitments be managed through contract performance?

Panel:

16:05-16:10    Ben Carpenter, Social Value UK 

16:10-16:15    Julian Blake, Partner, Stone King

16:15-16:20    Abby Semple, Procurement Analysis 

16:20-16:25     Tessa Cullen, Blavatnik School of Government student (re New Zealand) 

16:25-16:40     Open discussion / question and answer

16:40-16:55 Working Groups

Ruairi Macdonald (GO Lab) will facilitate a short discussion to help establish working groups to launch in the New Year. Suggestions include:

  • Raising awareness of public procurement among public sector leaders
  • Data on social value / strategic procurement policy implementation
  • Impact Bond contract template / standard terms
  • Procurement law reform for outcomes-based contracting
  • Local Procurement & COVID-19, Expert Panel, UKRI Project

16:55-17:00 Meeting closed by Chair

Please contact Ruairi Macdonald ruairi.macdonald@bsg.ox.ac.uk or Leigh Crowley leigh.crowley@bsg.ox.ac.uk if you would like to register for this event.