“…Economic criteria and standards play an important role in value-for-money evaluations, but only a role because what makes resource use good for some stakeholders may not be economic in nature. It may, for example, include stewardship of resources, productive ways of working, and creating impacts with desirable qualitative characteristics like equity, sustainability, and variety (King, 2019; McLean and Gargani, 2019; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2021) that purely economic methods may struggle to incorporate (Adler and Posner, 2006; Julnes, 2012; King, 2023).…”