Social Value and Sustainability

Jimmy BranniganDirector, NETpositive Futures

Let’s explore!

Effective and sustainable procurement can help to maximise social value, demonstrating a positive impact for tenants. This session will explore how social landlords can increase the sustainability of their procurement practices and, in turn, boost community benefits

We will cover

•An understanding of NETpositive Sustainability•How sustainable procurement can maximise social value and social impact•How procurement professionals can lead and demonstrate a net positive impact for their organisation

About NETpositive Futures

• Micro business• Focus on Sustainability, Corporate Social

Responsibility and Social Responsibility• Working with organisations and consortia on

sustainable procurement – getting them Level 4 of the Flexible Framework in 6 months!

• Developed on-line platforms / software to engage and support suppliers on sustainability (capital projects, whole supply chain engagement)

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NETpositive Sustainability

Increase the positive contribution of your organisation

- Social Contribution- Customer Satisfaction

- Financial value- Brand value

- Staff Wellbeing- Community benefit

Reduce the negative impact of your organisation

- Carbon Impact- Transport

- Waste

Sustainability Excellence

“Sustainability is about how organisations do what they do, it requires a focus on core activity and is about taking responsibility for the total impact of our activity. A socially responsible / sustainable organisation is one that is not only financially viable but takes account of all the positive and negative environmental, social and economic effects it has on society, both now and into the future”

How can sustainable procurement maximise social value and social impacts?

Stay with me on this!!

Sustainability Strategy Review

•Examined 50 University sustainability, CSR and Social Responsibility Strategies• Identified the key priorities / focus•Produced a ‘wordle’

Procurement Commodity Review

• Identified top 50 high spend / high risk / high opportunity commodities (using Proc HE coding)•Undertook a NETpositive impact appraisal on them•Produced another wordle with the results

The Approach (NET positive)

What does this tell us?

1. Currently most sustainability strategies (but not all!) are still focussed on environmental sustainability?

2. The opportunities in the supply chain – within the procurement process – include more social elements

3. There is an opportunity for procurement not only support organisational strategy but to be the driving force in leading a more transformational, socially-focussed agenda

It has to be said:

1. Cutting energy use, reducing waste, minimising resource consumption is just good business practice!!

2. Finding ways to maximise our contribution to society is what it is really about!!

3. If the utility I provide to society is a social one - my sustainability strategy (or whatever you call it!) should re-inforce this.

Our response

•We developed a supplier sustainability tool which helps each of a company’s suppliers to develop their own transformational action plan• It is being used in the university sector, the construction sector, by the city of Bristol as part of a European initiative but not the social housing sector

The data from one of our tools!

• 200 organisations (80% SME)• 2000 actions completed or in progress• 1000 pieces of evidence

Learning by helping.

Each supplier has been given the opportunity to develop their own NETpositive Action Plan (for free!) and the client has the opportunity to better understands it’s suppliers.Celebrating and communicate this collective impact becomes part of the commitment to being a socially responsible organisation – for both!

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