Social value, evidenced.
The evidence that wins and keeps work when bids turn on more than price.
Government and council procurement increasingly weighs broader outcomes — the social, economic, cultural and environmental value created by how work is delivered. We build the evidence to prove it, with the te ao Māori depth those requirements increasingly reward.
Price alone no longer wins
Public buyers now ask suppliers to show the broader outcomes behind a bid: local employment and training, regional benefit, supplier diversity, emissions, community wellbeing. New Zealand's Government Procurement Rules make these broader outcomes an explicit part of how agencies plan and evaluate contracts, and councils weight social value and Māori and Pasifika supplier diversity in their own procurement.
Assertion is not evidence
Most bids claim social value. Few can evidence it. A reviewer can tell the difference between a statement of intent and a defensible estimate built on real data and conservative assumptions. We build the second kind — the analysis that survives scrutiny and gives a submission something competitors cannot easily match.
Infrastructure, construction & facilities management
Firms bidding for and delivering government and council contracts, where broader outcomes and social value now carry real weight in evaluation — and have to be reported through the life of the contract.
Corporates & large suppliers
Organisations with ESG, sustainability and procurement commitments that need credible outcome evidence — for tenders, for reporting, and for the board — rather than assertion.
We translate "social value" from a bid buzzword into measured, defensible outcomes — using the frameworks public buyers actually apply.
NZ Government Procurement
The social, economic, cultural and environmental value created by how a contract is delivered — the lens public buyers now apply.
Supplier diversity & local benefit
Māori and Pasifika supplier spend, local employment and community benefit — the outcomes councils and agencies increasingly ask suppliers to show.
The quantified case
Social return on investment and cost-benefit analysis to Treasury conventions, so value is expressed in terms a reviewer trusts.
Te ao Māori depth
Treasury's te ao Māori wellbeing framework — the genuine cultural grounding procurement weightings reward and most providers cannot offer.
What we do for you
- Social value & SROI for bids and tenders — the quantified evidence that strengthens a submission and defends it under questioning.
- Broader-outcomes measurement and reporting — outcomes mapped to the procurement requirements and reporting obligations you are held to.
- Supplier diversity impact — Māori and Pasifika supplier spend and its flow-on value, measured the way agencies and councils want to see it.
- Community, workforce and local-benefit outcomes — employment and training pathways, local procurement and community benefit, evidenced for consents and contracts.
- Ongoing impact reporting — measurement built in once, then reported through delivery, so the social-value story holds across the life of the contract.
Not sure where to start? A Pathway Scan is a short, fixed-fee piece that maps the social value at stake in a bid or contract and what evidence already exists — a low-risk way to test the case before you commit.
One we can show in public — and the shape of the rest.
$149m
of contracts matchmade to Māori and Pasifika suppliers.
Amotai supplier diversity programme · Impact evaluation for Auckland Council. One large contract drives most of this total.
Supplier diversity, measured
An independent impact evaluation of Amotai's supplier diversity programme for Auckland Council — the kind of evidence a buyer needs to show that social procurement is delivering real spend into Māori and Pasifika businesses, not just good intentions.
Elsewhere, where the client work is not public, the social-value and broader-outcomes engagements look like this:
Social-value evidence for tenders
quantifying the social value of a national services provider's programmes, to strengthen bids into local-government facilities contracts.
A 50-year cost–benefit analysis
of a proposed visitor-experience facility — market and non-market value, Treasury discount rates — to test an infrastructure investment case before capital was committed.
A CBAx-style cost–benefit model
for a regional housing-repair and energy-efficiency programme, evidencing value for money and community benefit to its public funders.
Broader-outcomes measurement
mapping employment, training and local-benefit outcomes to a public buyer's evaluation criteria, so a delivery story could be evidenced rather than asserted.
A combination few can offer.
Large firms can find someone to run a social-value model. Almost none can pair that economic rigour with genuine te ao Māori depth — and that is exactly what government and council weightings increasingly ask for. We are economists who work natively in He Ara Waiora and kaupapa Māori practice, so our evidence holds up for the procurement reviewer and rings true for the communities a contract affects.
Our social-value, SROI and cost-benefit work has supported bids, funding and investment decisions across infrastructure, housing, health, education, sport, tourism and community services — with analysis that survives review.
Value for money & CBAx Impact assessment & SROI Selected results & clientsPhD economists
A team of doctoral-level economists and researchers. The analytical depth a single headline number cannot fake.
Two knowledge systems
We work natively in mātauranga Māori and applied economics at once. Weaving the two is our deepest innovation, and our edge.
Internationally published
Peer-reviewed work in journals including Marine Policy, Ecological Indicators and Business Strategy and the Environment.
We build the tools
Custom modelling systems and large value libraries, with analysis drawing on IDI data extracts of 186 million rows.
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Bidding on more than price?
Whether you are preparing a submission or proving outcomes through delivery, the first kōrero is free. Tell us what is on the table and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
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