For SMEs & bid writers answering public-sector tenders

Your social value answer, structured to score.

A tender is putting a meaningful slice of the marks on a social value question, and a generic "we are committed to giving back" paragraph scores almost nothing. The Co-pilot turns your real, deliverable capacity into specific, locally-grounded SMART commitments, self-scores them against a typical evaluator rubric, and flags over-promising — entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded.

100% client-side — your tender text never leaves the browser Built around the public Social Value Model Commercial-use licence for client bids

A structuring & self-assessment aid — not legal or procurement advice, and not a guarantee of any evaluation score or contract award. A qualified bid lead finalises every answer; committed numbers become contractual on award.

The painful moment

The marks are on the page you find hardest to write.

Social value is now a scored, weighted section of many UK public-sector tenders, especially in-scope central government procurements using the PPN 002 Social Value Model. For an SME, it can decide a close bid — and it is often the section quietly losing you marks.

"Describe the social value your organisation will deliver in the performance of this contract, with particular focus on local employment, skills and reducing carbon. (Weighting: 15%)"

Sentiment scores nothing

"We are passionate about giving back" is an aspiration, not a commitment. An evaluator can't score what they can't measure — so it reads as filler, because it is.

Generic ignores their place

A commitment that could be pasted into any bid in the country tells the buyer you didn't think about their community, their priorities, their local need.

Over-promising is now a liability

"100% local", "we guarantee", "industry-leading" read as risk. And on the Procurement Act regime, social value commitments become contractual — over-delivering a promise you can't keep is a real downside.

AI-sounding text gets screened

Generic, AI-default answers are easy to discount because they are not measurable evidence. "In today's ever-changing landscape, we strive to leverage synergies" is an instant credibility tax.

The mechanism

Map, scaffold, self-score, de-risk — entirely in your browser.

The Co-pilot is a structuring and self-assessment aid. It doesn't invent your capacity and it doesn't predict your score — it turns what you can genuinely deliver into the shape evaluators reward, then checks it for the mistakes that lose marks.

Map the question

Paste the social value question and your real capacity. The Co-pilot maps it to the most likely Social Value Model outcome area(s) so you answer what's being asked.

Build SMART scaffolds

Generate fill-in commitment scaffolds grounded in your authority, region and radius. Every number stays a blank — you commit only to figures you can deliver.

Self-score live

Draft in your own voice. The tool scores it live on the five dimensions evaluators reward and shows your biggest lever — a sanity check, not the buyer's mark.

De-risk & export

It flags over-promising and AI-texture. Fix them, confirm a real local partner, export the review sheet, and hand it to a human to finalise.

See the difference

The same capacity — written two ways.

A fictional groundworks SME, a council highways contract. One answer is sentiment; one is structured to score. The Co-pilot moves you from left to right without inventing a single thing you can't deliver.

Before · loses marks

"We are passionate about giving back and are fully committed to social value. As an industry-leading business we always strive to support local employment wherever possible and guarantee 100% commitment to making a difference."

  • No numbers — nothing to score or be held to
  • No named place or partner
  • No evidence of capacity
  • "100% / guarantee / always" — flagged as over-promising
After · structured to score

"Within 20 miles of [City] Council we will recruit 3 operatives, 1 ring-fenced for a person facing barriers (via a confirmed local employment hub), start 2 Level-2 apprenticeships, place ≥25% of contract value with local SMEs, and cut contract carbon 12% vs our FY2025 baseline — owners, dates and quarterly reporting attached."

  • Real, measurable numbers throughout
  • Named place, radius and partner type to confirm
  • Evidence: retained apprentices, existing local suppliers
  • Clean red-flag scan — and a human can sign it off

What you actually receive

The structuring layer — not another blank template.

Anyone can tell you to "be specific and local". What's painful and time-boxed is doing it under a deadline, against a framework, without over-committing — and self-checking it before a human signs off. That's what you get.

The Social Value Bid Co-pilot — the in-browser tool

A real, working application (no install, no account, no backend). It maps your question to the framework, builds SMART scaffolds from your real capacity, self-scores your draft, and flags the mistakes that lose marks.

  • Outcome mapping — your question matched to the public Social Value Model outcome areas and plain-English award criteria.
  • SMART commitment scaffolds — fill-in templates grounded in your authority, region and radius; every number left for you.
  • Live self-score — five evaluator dimensions, your weakest-link lever, transparent on-device heuristic (not the buyer's mark).
  • Red-flag scan + export — over-promising & AI-texture caught; a pre-submission review sheet generated in your browser.

The evaluator question bank + worked example

15 recurring social value questions across current outcome areas, each with what the evaluator actually rewards and a model answer skeleton — plus a full before/after worked example you can learn the shape from.

Partner-type map, tracker + the Playbook

Credible local partner types region by region (confirm a real org before naming), an editable commitment tracker for delivery & reporting, and the operator's Playbook — including a commercial-use licence for client bids.

Premium, one-time, yours forever

One afternoon's work, priced as a reusable self-serve tool.

Outsourced bid-writing help can cost materially more than a one-off self-serve tool. This puts the structuring and self-assessment in your hands today — once, with a commercial licence.

Founding price · first 100 buyers
Social Value Bid Co-pilot — full pack + commercial licence
£49 £79

Anchored against the cost of outsourced bid-writing support, which can be materially higher than a reusable one-off tool for a single section.

Founding price of £49 holds for the first 100 buyers, then it rises to £79 — the price genuinely changes at 100, no fake countdowns. No claim of any score or win is made.

What's in the stack

Social Value Bid Co-pilot in-browser tool £59
Evaluator's-eye question bank (15 questions) £39
The Afternoon-Answer quick-start path £29
Local partner-type map (region by region) £29
Commitment-tracker template + worked example £29
Commercial-use licence (client bids) £49
Total standalone value £195
Get instant access — £49

Secure checkout via Lemon Squeezy (VAT handled). Instant download. At checkout you'll confirm you want immediate access and understand this waives the 14-day cancellation right — your 60-day guarantee below is more generous anyway. This is self-assessment tooling, not a guarantee of any evaluation score or contract award.

60day
guarantee

Use it on a real tender. If it doesn't sharpen your answer, keep everything and get your money back.

Run the Co-pilot on a real social value question and produce your self-scored, flagged draft. If within 60 days it hasn't given you a sharper, more evidence-led answer than you'd have written alone, email for a full no-questions refund — and keep the question bank, partner-type map and worked example.

We can offer that because the tool does genuine structuring work. To be completely clear: the refund is about the tool's usefulness — it is not tied to, and we make no promise about, your evaluation score or whether you win the contract.

Honest answers

Questions worth asking before you buy.

Will this guarantee a good score or win me the contract?

No — and be wary of anything that claims it will. The Co-pilot is a structuring and self-assessment aid. It helps you turn your real capacity into a specific, locally-grounded, well-evidenced answer and self-check it before submission. The self-score is a transparent heuristic that runs on your device — it is not the buyer's real mark, and we make no claim or prediction about your evaluation score or the contract award. Your tender sets the actual scoring scheme and weighting, which this tool cannot see.

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT to write my answer?

A general chatbot will happily invent capacity, impressive-sounding numbers and partners you don't have — which is exactly what gets a bid disqualified or lands you in a contract you can't deliver. The Co-pilot deliberately does the opposite: it never invents capacity, it leaves every number for you to commit to, it maps to the actual framework structure, and it flags the AI-texture and over-promising that evaluators screen out. It's the discipline a generic model lacks.

Does my tender text or any data get uploaded anywhere?

No. The tool runs entirely in your browser. Your question, capacity, draft and self-score never leave your machine — there is no backend and no network call. The review sheet is generated locally as a download.

Does it reproduce the National TOMs or guarantee framework compliance?

No. The framework content is paraphrased in plain English from the public structure of the Government Social Value Model. We deliberately do not reproduce proprietary National TOMs measure IDs or any proxy financial values, and we don't claim framework or legal compliance. If your tender uses official National TOMs, use the authority's own measure list and values. Always defer to your tender's stated outcome areas, criteria, weightings and scoring scheme.

I'm a bid writer / consultant. Can I use it for client bids?

Yes — a commercial-use licence is included. You may use the Co-pilot to structure and self-score answers for paying clients and submit them under your or your client's name. You may not resell or redistribute the tool, templates or guide themselves. Full terms in the bundled licence.

Will it stay current as the rules change?

The tool tracks the public Social Value Model structure under the Procurement Act 2023 regime, and the framework data is fully editable. We ship free updates to buyers when the structure or guidance materially changes. The guide deliberately avoids stating penalty figures or win probabilities because they vary and change — it points you to the official sources to verify the current position yourself.

Who is behind this?

A UK-based independent software studio. Sold self-serve via Lemon Squeezy (the merchant of record), with a real money-back guarantee and a monitored support email. Reach us any time at the address in the footer.

Stop losing close bids on the section you find hardest to write.

Turn your real capacity into a social value answer structured the way evaluators reward — self-scored, de-risked, and ready for a human to finalise this afternoon.

Get the Co-pilot — £49One-time · 60-day money-back guarantee · instant access