DICM (Scotland) Social Value Marketplace

This marketplace spans three topographic areas: the Highlands in the north, the Midland Valley (Central Lowlands), and the Southern Uplands. It's where public buyers and business suppliers are collaborating to use contract social value to build healthier, safer and more resilient communities.

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Any business supplying into Scotland's emergency services, councils, NHS or criminal justice services can develop contract social value which is built around supporting local provisions meeting the Safer communities objectives.
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Community provisions aligned to and directly supporting safer communities objectives...

The following community-led provisions are aligned to and support the Police & Crime Plan and Community Safety Partnerships' priorities.

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Updates and insights from within communities...

The 2026 Public Procurement Squeeze: Why "Box-Ticking" is Dead and How Local SMEs Are Holding the £7.4bn Answer

20 May 2026
The landscape of UK public sector procurement has hit a point of no return. As we move through 2026, the traditional playbook used by Tier-1 contractors and public buyers is no longer just outdated—it is a compliance liability...

Pluggin Marketplace Launches National Apprenticeship Levy Hand-off Campaign

18 May 2026
Having successfully tested the way for the large Tier-1 suppliers to seamlessly offset their unused, expiring Apprenticeship Levy funds directly into grassroots organisations within public contracts, the Pluggin Marketplace is now scaling this radical way for all major suppliers to...

Does AI Know About Your Social Value?

28 April 2026
The new public sector sales battleground is social value, the 10-30% weighting on supply tenders. So why does AI need to be a marketing and sales focus, how will this ensure your business stands-out for its social value?...

Why Tier-1 Value Added Reseller IT Suppliers are Risking a "Strategic Miss" on Social Value

24 April 2026
For the UK’s Tier-1 technology giants the rules of social value leadership in the UK public sector just changed... The eye of Mordor has moved!...

The HBS Scheme Playbook

23 April 2026
This HBS Scheme playbook is a quick-step way for sales and marketing teams to take an early-entry position of founding member ahead of the main roll-out of the HBS Scheme; the scheme is creating a new brand differentiator by moving...

Mitigating the £3.3bn Retail Crime & Safety Risk: How Strategic Social Value is helping Reclaim the High Street

9 April 2026
To protect the long-term viability of the high street, we must pivot from containment to structural prevention. The most potent tool for this transition lies within an unexpected quarter: Public Procurement...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part Two.

3 April 2026,
In an era of tightening budgets and complex community demands, the Home Office and our police forces are facing a fundamental question: How do we fund long-term prevention while maintaining a visible frontline? The answer doesn't lie in waiting for the...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part One.

2 April 2026,
It's 2026, Police budgets are under unprecedented strain. Yet the demand for community safety and multi-agency collaboration and funding continues to rise...

Helping Police Executives Operationalise Social Value via the Pluggin Marketplace

29 March 2026
Read how this fully established UK marketplace, is leveraging the multi-billion pound police and council supply chains within an area to create sustainable, private sector funded safety nets for your neighbourhoods, aligned perfectly with your statutory multi-agency objectives and obligations...

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