The things you already do, counted and evidenced.
Care providers do a great deal of social value and record almost none of it. ELSA gives apprenticeships, local hiring, volunteering and spend with small and voluntary-sector suppliers somewhere to live, scores them against the UK Social Value Model, and turns them into evidence you can attach to a bid.
What this replaces today
- Writing the social value answer from scratch every time, because last year's numbers are in somebody's head.
- Claiming a round figure in a bid that nobody could substantiate if the buyer asked.
- Losing points on the section of the evaluation that is often the easiest to win.
- Not knowing whether the commitment you made in last year's bid was ever delivered.
How it works
Log it as it happens
A calculator of around twenty-six metrics, each with its own points value and a cap so no single line can dominate a category: jobs created, apprenticeships, training hours, work placements, spend with SMEs and voluntary-sector suppliers, carbon reduced, volunteer hours.
It scores against the model buyers use
The 2025/26 UK Social Value Model, with its real weightings: Employment and Skills at 30, Environment at 25, Equality and Inclusion at 20, Community and Wellbeing at 15, Supply Chain at 10. The older PPN 06/20 weighting is there for contracts still evaluated against it.
It reaches the bid on the questions that call for it
When you write a social value answer, your real recorded figures are in front of the writer. On any other question they are not, so a safeguarding answer never quietly acquires a paragraph about apprenticeships.
What you get
Delivered and committed are never mixed
What you have done and what you have promised are two different lists with two different verbs. A commitment in a winning bid is something you are then held to for the life of the contract, and a tool that blurs them is actively dangerous at review time.
A pound figure, resolved from the most accurate source available
Your own recorded value first, then your organisation's agreed rate, then a published proxy, in that order. It is labelled an estimate throughout, because it is one.
Reports as tender evidence
Monthly, quarterly and annual, exportable and attachable, so the answer you write is backed by a document rather than by a claim.
Dated entries, not running totals
Each delivered figure keeps the date it was logged, so three jobs in March and three in September never silently become six.
What stops it going wrong
An empty record produces nothing at all
If you have logged no social value, the bid writer is given no social value block, not an empty heading. An empty heading asserts that you have no record, which is a stronger and more damaging claim than saying nothing.
Relevance is decided before the prompt exists
Whether a question is a social value question is worked out in code first. A model handed the material and told to use it only if relevant will work it in regardless, which is precisely the failure being designed out.
You can see what fed a draft, months later
The records used in an answer are stored with it, so reopening a bid next year shows which entries it was built from.
Who it is for
Every paid plan
For any provider bidding for public sector work, where social value is a scored section rather than a nice-to-have.
It is also useful without bidding at all: it is the only place most providers ever see what they contribute written down.