# Analysis of the Situation of Social Public Procurement of Works at the Valencian Region (Spain)
## 4 Results
It can be noted that only 20 out of the 143 contracting entities of the Valencian region have included social criteria in their procedures, and just 12 of them more than once. Table 9 shows the relationship between tenders with social criteria, the manner in which bidders participate in the tender and the type of administrative procedure. Results show that social criteria are mainly employed in ordinary processing by regional authorities and in urgent processing by local authorities (this fact is explained because the Castellon City Council has processed using urgent processing 23 of the total files, including social criteria). Regarding the participation method, social criteria are employed more in open procedures, mainly by the regional authorities, followed by the local and provincial ones. From the total of 967 procedures in the sample, 422 award prices are available. For each of the procedures, the bidder's drop \(D_{i}\) has been determined. It is the discount or bid reduction on the tender price of a contract (\(P_{t}\)) submitted by a given contractor \(i\) for a tender. It is mathematically expressed as:  
\[D_{i}=(1-\frac{B_{i}}{P_{t}})\cdot 100 \tag{1}\]  
where:  
\(D_{i}\) is the Drop of bidder \(i\) (expressed in %)  
\(B_{i}\) is the Bid (expressed in \(\ell\))  
\(P_{t}\) is the Tender price (expressed in \(\ell\))  
Results show that the average drop of the entire sample is 27.8%. With respect to the tenders with social criteria, award prices are available for 73 procedures, obtaining an average drop of 16.4%. With the available data and considering the weight that social criteria have, it can be indicated that the works that use social criteria have a higher award price. \begin{table}
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**Type of Administrative Procedure** & **GS** & **Tenders with Social Criteria** & **Total Tenders** & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Tenders with Social Criteria/Total tenders (\%)**} \\  & L & 21 & 403 & 5.2 \\ Ordinary & P & 8 & 127 & 6.3 \\  & R & 57 & 227 & 25.1 \\  & L & 26 & 184 & 14.1 \\ Urgent & P & 0 & 12 & 0 \\  & R & 1 & 12 & 8.3 \\  & L & 0 & 0 & - \\ Emergency & P & 0 & 0 & - \\  & R & 0 & 2 & 0 \\ \hline
**Method of Participation** & **GS** & **Tenders with Social Criteria** & **Total Tenders** & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Tenders with Social Criteria/Total Tenders (\%)**} \\  & L & 46 & 435 & 10.6 \\ Open & P & 7 & 113 & 6.2 \\  & R & 58 & 239 & 24.3 \\  & L & 0 & 41 & 0 \\ Negotiated with advertising & P & 1 & 5 & 20 \\  & R & 0 & 1 & 0 \\  & L & 1 & 111 & 0.9 \\ Negotiated without advertising & P & 0 & 21 & 0 \\  & R & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 9: Social criteria according to the type of administrative procedure, participation approach and geographical scope. If the analysis is performed from the point of view of the project budget (see Table 10), it can be affirmed that social criteria are more often used in both construction subsectors for projects with budgets between $1,000,001 and $10,000,00. It can also be concluded that social criteria are included more often in the building subsector than in the civil engineering subsector.