Join our ecosystem and operate at the forefront of buyer-led activity transforming how social value is contracted and harnessed within the UK.
Bid Teams
The DICM removes social value ambiguity within tenders, by standardising the strategic objective and methodology for bids to support.
Bid teams can find and engage with the community providers making impact through existing local activities, explore mutual social value opportunities and then submit the collaboration intent within bids.
Account Teams
Post-contract award, the DICM provides a dual impact framework to showcase the evolution of the collaborations outlined within bids.
The Pluggin Ecosystem is the community environment hosting the collaboration and social value support outlined within the bid. Account teams showcase the collaboration in real-time, embedded within local activity.
Ecosystem membership helps you access the DICM!
Interactivity
Through desk/laptop or mobile devices your bid, account and even marketing teams are digitally connected with the community organisations, public buyers and universities all collaborating under the DICM within the 45 UK territories.
The DICM operates within a unique and interactive digital environment where everyone collaborates, shares and celebrates the evolution of dual impact across the UK.
Created by and hosted within the Pluggin Ecosystem, the Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM) was built with senior public procurement leaders.
Business membership enables your existing bid and account management operations to access the DICM within our ecosystem, to plan and manage supply contracts with dual impact social value which directly supports the obligations and dual impact objective of public buyers within 45 UK geographies.
Alignment
Embed your brand and social value contributions to the DICM within one or all of 45 territories of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
DICM Profile
Membership enables your social value and marketing teams to build a unique DICM social value profile and portfolio within our ecosystem.
Collaborations
You can expand your DICM portfolio with dual impact collaboration relationships built with community providers already making a dual impact.
Commitments
You can formalise your collaborations into bids and contracts through the DICM's Social Purchase Order (SPO) process.
Buyer Viewers
Your DICM portfolio is visible to emergency services, local government, NHS and criminal justice service buyers within and across all 45 territories.
Join Research
You can submit your social value data into the DICM's Dual Impact Research Hubs which provide key insights and metrics to public buyers across the UK.
Frequently Asked Questions
This ecosystem based, and DICM centred approach being taken with public buyers is designed to replace and improve the existing "business social value silo" approach which hampers meaningful and lasting collaborations within and across counties/regions.
These are the FIVE main questions we are asked by businesses, but are by no means all of them.
What is your connection with public procurement and how does this help us?
The Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM) was created by us with senior procurement leaders and the Pluggin Ecosystem now hosts this regionally as a strategic framework for the public contracting of social value. As a member of our ecosystem, you are able to support the dual impact objectives of buyers anywhere in the UK, and the DICM is your evidence of HOW & WHERE your social value supports dual impact.
When you say public procurement, who do you refer to?
Within 45 UK territories, the DICM is a social value framework to support contracting across emergency services, councils, NHS Trusts and the criminal justice services. This framework provides buyers the real-time visibility of supplier social value collaborations under the DICM within the UK.
Are we being asked to contribute to existing activities rather than design and deliver our own?
Yes. Rather than businesses developing stand-alone social value activities the objective now is to support and sustain community-led activities known to be delivering a dual impact as part of a strategic collaboration with public bodies.
So, we find and offer support to a community organisation and they deliver the impact?
Yes. All charities and social enterprises featured within the ecosystem's Social Impact Register are pre-qualified as having proven and pre-funded activity delivering the dual impact which buyers seek to be sustained over time.
Isn't this just another portal like all the others?
No this is far more than a digital tool. Membership of our ecosystem provides a new social value interactivity with the real-world organisations inside communities - enhanced by technology so it can be facilitated and showcased. Moreover, the ecosystem is embedded into the public contracting process enabling social value locked within collaborations, to be hardwired into contracts and then tracked in real-time through the life of the contract - community validated through ongoing research visible to buyers across the UK and local residents on the ground.
Business Membership
Membership subscription is quick and easy using our joining process.
Once set-up, membership enables your business teams to access and operate with the Social Impact Register to strategically align, operate and promote your social value in support of the DICM within all 45 territories.