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In June 2018 the UK central government announced it would require social value to be explicitly evaluated when awarding most major contracts. To help government departments implement this change the Cabinet Office and DCMS worked with departmental commercial and policy teams and supplier representative bodies to develop the Social Value Model, to streamline and standardise the assessment of social value in the procurement process.
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