We're delighted to be running a joint webinar with our partners BidCraft to discuss where social value is quietly costing businesses marks in their bids, and what it takes to close those gaps. Social value now carries real weight in public sector tenders, but it's often treated as a separate workstream, written late and bolted on, rather than built into the bid from the start.
In this practitioner conversation, Grace Manson (a social value expert from transformacy) and Jon Darby (a bid specialist and the Managing Director of BidCraft) sit down to work through where responses fall short, why it happens, and how to turn a compliant answer into a winning one.
The webinar will take place between 15:00-15:40 on Tuesday 7th July - a joining link will be emailed upon registration.
What you’ll learn in the webinar:
- Where the marks actually disappear. Why genuinely good social value work still loses points, and where in the bid those marks go missing.
- Too late, too generic, too siloed. The recurring patterns that weaken responses, and what evaluators pick up on when social value reads as bolted-on rather than built-in.
- The consortium problem. Why multi-stakeholder and subcontractor-heavy bids are where social value most often unravels, and how to hold the thread.
- One engagement, not two. What changes when bid craft and social value expertise work as a single joined-up process from kickoff, rather than a specialist brought in late.
- Audience Q&A. Ask our experts live.