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Social value answers for social enterprises: tender drafts

Give ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini your impact figures and the tender question for a first draft of the social value answer. Free to about $27£20€24A$38C$38 a month.

At a glance

  • What it costsFree–$27Free–£20Free–€24Free–A$38Free–C$38 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$120£90€107A$173C$169 a month

  • Pays for itselfIn about a week

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Public tenders often carry a social value question, and social enterprises should score well on it, but each answer takes time to fit the buyer's themes and word limit. At about 6 hours for each of 2 tenders a month, that is 12 hours a month of writing.

What the AI does

Use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini as a drafting assistant. Paste in the question, the buyer's social value themes and the word limit, with your own impact figures, case studies and a previous answer, and ask for a draft that uses only those facts and answers each part of the question. Then rewrite it in the business's voice, check every figure and commitment, and make sure anything promised can be delivered and reported on. Free plans are enough to start; paid plans (about $20£15€18A$29C$28 to $27£20€24A$38C$38 a month for one person) handle longer documents.

A worked example

A recycling and repair social enterprise in Leeds bids for 2 council and housing association contracts a month. A manager writes the social value sections from the impact report and past bids.

Before

About 6 hours per social value answer: 12 hours a month

After

About 3.5 hours per answer including checking and rewriting: 7 hours a month

What it's worth

About $120£90€107A$173C$169 a month in manager time saved, against $0£0€0A$0C$0 to $27£20€24A$38C$38 for the assistant. 5 hours a month saved (12 minus 7), valued at an assumed $24£18€21A$35C$34 an hour.

How to set it up

  1. Keep an evidence file: impact figures, case studies (anonymised) and the commitments you've delivered before.
  2. Paste in the question, themes, word limit and your evidence, and ask for an answer using only those facts.
  3. Rewrite in your own words and add local detail and named partners only where agreed.
  4. Check every number and commitment with the person who will deliver it, then fit the word limit.

What goes wrong

  • An assistant can invent figures or promise outcomes you can't deliver. Social value commitments often become contract terms you must report on.
  • Tender documents may be confidential. Check the buyer's rules and your assistant's data settings before pasting them in.
  • Answers that read as generic score poorly. Keep specific local examples.
  • Some buyers ask whether AI was used in a bid; read the instructions to bidders.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.