The heart of our civic infrastructure is the Pluggin Marketplace, created with and for UK public buying authorities. 

Its true power lies in the deep community embedment, and maximising commercial market forces whilst providing absolute public accountability.

This is a live and dynamic environment, uniquely embedded into 44 public buying geographies to help build supply contracts where supplier social value sits within public-facing collaborations with buyer-approved charities and social enterprises making impact they need... all powered by proprietary technology now providing the digital rails for full transparency and auditability. 

DICM Engine

Our digital engine facilitates, formalises, measures and promotes hundreds of live contract social value collaborations between suppliers and community organisations - linking it all back for buyers to see.

Brand Sponsors

A powerful brand marketing framework enabling suppliers to stand-out within our fast-growing buyer marketplace, a profile page, tools and newsfeed pushing social value updates into our UK buyer partners.

Steering Group

Regionally, our buying partners are leading the drive to better harness contract social value across all local buying groups, to actively tackle community resourcing needs and deliver lasting community impact.

SME Matching

In line with 2026 legislation changes, Tier 1 prime contractors hyper-localise their supply chains within our marketplace, we publish live commercial subcontract spend as audit-ready contract Social Value.

Navigate the Pluggin Marketplace

Any member of our civic infrastructure can deep-dive into regions and areas to find out more. 

 

 

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Key insights and updates from across the marketplace...

PCC Community Safety Objectives for Bedfordshire

Suppliers to Bedfordshire's public bodies can now support the county's Police & Crime Plan - based-upon seven missions which are underpinned by objectives. The DICM (Bedfordshire) social valuer marketplace brings everything together for communities and business suppliers to collaborate for...

Telefónica Tech social value supports EDI within police ranks

West Mercia Police supplier Telefónica Tech is delivering social value linked to the strategic EDI objectives of the PALS programme, enhancing force approaches to existing community cohesion and engagement activities...

£1.8m of Home Office funding forms a base for tackling serious violence in the Thames Valley

£1.8m of Home Office funding goes into local partners as part of the ongoing drive to help tackle serious violence in the Thames Valley.Serious violence and knife enabled crime is falling in the Thames Valley, but further work is taking...

65 people arrested an estimated £618,000 worth of drugs seized as part of a county lines intensification week at the end of June

"County Lines is something we do take very seriously in West Mercia and we will target organised crime networks that bring drugs from other towns and areas into ours. We need to keep getting that message out that they're not...

Meet Herefordshire Vennture

Vennture's Twilight to Night-time work links closely with local businesses, doormen and the police to identify people that need help, preventing unnecessary 999 calls and reducing pressure on public services...

Meet The Silent Disco Project CIC

Within this DICM area The Silent Disco Project CIC offers local charity, youth services or education setting an expert resource as therapeutic musical experiences for children and young people - particularly those with special educational needs or disabilities, or as...

We're scaling our buying authority community to a collective £15 billion of UK public contracting.

We've established our civic infrastructure with police and council contracting, but we're not stopping there!

This community is growing from £2.1 billion of collective public buying, to £15 billion. So the infrastructure is also helping business suppliers to transform how social value helps them secure contracts.