Transforming how public buying drives social impact...
In 2023, we launched a dual impact collaboration marketplace (DICM) with senior police buyers; a buying marketplace worth £485 million a year, it quickly evolved over the next 2 years.
Branded the Pluggin Marketplace in 2026, this environment not only supports how public contracting drives social value into counties, but enables these buyers and their local residents to see HOW & WHERE their business suppliers are adding real social value to the charity and social enterprise providers building healthier, safer and more resilient communities.
For public buyers across counties this provides a cost-free, public-facing and communities led solution to deliver strategically aligned social impact through inter-connected public spending.
A dynamic real-time marketplace connecting, capturing, measuring and promoting supplier social value across hundreds of supply contracts.
Public Buying: When tenders go out for businesses to respond, they are seamlessly connected with the Pluggin Marketplace; bidders can go directly to any of 44 marketplace areas to find and engage with a host of approved charities & social enterprises already delivering the impact buyers want supported via social value.
Our technology helps establish a business and charity/social enterprise collaboration proposal to be submitted as social value within the business bid; evaluated by the public buyers and supporting up to 20% of their tender weighting.
Supply Contracts: Upon contract award, the collaboration proposal is converted into a collaboration agreement and locked-into the supply contract - binding buyer, supplier and charity/social enterprise to support the locally published crime and safety objectives.
Measurement: Through the marketplace's ongoing data collection process, the collaboration agreement is measured for impact through the capture of outputs from the charity/social enterprise being supported; grassroot outputs which show the evolution of impact over time - which are then matched to wider crime and safety statistics, public spending on emergency services and criminal justice services.
Sharing real insights, building local awareness and engagement...
The marketplace is centred around charities and social enterprises inside communities; so their news is pushed-out into the public domain through their own social channels from within our dedicated SEO-targeted newsfeeds.
Many well-known suppliers were quick to join...
Business suppliers of all sizes recognise the opportunity to stand-out and showcase their social value, to UK public buyers who seek visible evidence before and after contracting.
Explore for yourself...
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