ImpactOS has launched a technology platform intended to connect social-value commitments made during procurement with local-needs analysis, supplier delivery, evidence, measurement, and reporting.
The platform has been developed within Pagabo Group by combining capabilities associated with its existing Loop technology and Impact Reporting, which the group previously acquired.
ImpactOS covers social-value planning, delivery, measurement, and reporting within one system rather than treating tender commitments and subsequent evidence as separate processes.
Pagabo Group chief executive Amman Boughan said: “The challenge is no longer creating commitments. It’s making the right commitments for the right places and then proving those were delivered.”
The platform includes local-needs analysis, configurable metrics, commitment tracking, evidence capture, supplier monitoring, and reporting tools. It is aimed at bidding, procurement, project, and sustainability teams.
Its launch comes as central-government procurement requirements around social value are changing. Procurement Policy Note 026 was published by the Cabinet Office on 5 August 2026 and introduces a revised Social Value Model focused on British jobs, skills, and opportunities.
The policy applies to central government departments, executive agencies, and non-departmental public bodies within its scope. Those organisations should apply the provisions to procurements commencing on or after 1 January 2027.
Other public-sector bodies are not automatically brought into scope by the PPN, although the model can influence procurement practice more widely.
The revised approach places employment, skills, fair working conditions, progression, and local opportunity at the centre of social-value assessment. Contracting bodies are expected to select outcomes relevant to the procurement rather than treating social value as a generic set of promises.
That creates a data problem over the life of a contract. Commitments may be made during a tender months before delivery begins, while responsibility for achieving them can be distributed across several contractors and subcontractors.
Evidence can consequently become fragmented between tender submissions, spreadsheets, project reports, supplier documents, and sustainability systems.
ImpactOS is designed to preserve the connection between the original commitment, the local need being addressed, the organisation responsible for delivery, and the evidence recorded when activity takes place.
Its local-needs function draws on external data to identify priorities at community and neighbourhood level. That information can then be used when deciding which social-value outcomes are relevant to a particular project or location.
Measurement remains difficult because the activities covered by social value vary widely. Jobs, apprenticeships, training, employee wellbeing, environmental improvement, local procurement, and community investment require different evidence and do not carry identical significance in every place.
ImpactOS says its system supports both monetised and non-monetised metrics and keeps the underlying methodology visible. It also aligns its measurement framework with the National Social Value Standard and HM Treasury Green Book principles.
The regulatory change increases the importance of being able to substantiate commitments rather than reporting them only at tender stage. Suppliers competing for affected central-government contracts from January will face greater pressure to demonstrate how promised jobs and skills outcomes connect to delivery.
ImpactOS is entering the market as buyers and suppliers prepare for that change. Its adoption will depend on whether organisations can use a single platform to reduce fragmented administration while producing evidence robust enough to connect procurement commitments with measurable outcomes.
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