Decision

(1)     That Cabinet approve the Social Value in Sandwell Policy that will apply to all Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council commissioners, all expenditure made on behalf of the council, for all services, goods, and works contracts, and planning officers determining planning applications that are over 10 residential units or exceed 10,000 sqm.

(2)     That Cabinet give approval for a tendering evaluation quality weighting of 10-30% on Social Value for all services, goods and works contracts and Full Council be recommended to approve an update to the existing Contract Procedure Rules to reflect this change, which is currently 5-30%.

(3)     That Cabinet delegate authority to the Head of Procurement to determine if and how the Social Value in Sandwell Policy is applied to contracts to ensure proportionality against Social Value weightings and contract value thresholds.