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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Click below for quick links to the 44 areas of the marketplace...

Key insights and updates from across the marketplace...

Supporting West Mercia Youth Through Reparation Projects

This project delivers court-ordered reparation activities for young people who have been involved in minor offences. These include carpentry-based projects where participants build bird boxes, wildlife homes, and other timber products for use across Wildlife Trust estates and local communities...

Employer supported police volunteering within West Mercia

West Mercia Police is helping public sector suppliers to the region, and local businesses, to develop a new way of delivering social value which directly underpins community safety and resilience. ...

West Mercia Police Community Cyber Safety Support Rolls Out

Exploitation and Vulnerability Session for parents and guardians. Join an online session focusing on the topic of exploitation and online safety. This session aims to raise awareness and provide valuable insights on how to protect vulnerable children...

2024 meant community impact for Telefónica Tech

Telefonica Tech's partnership with SmartSTEMs saw 23 schools, engaging 1,500 young people through 9,000 hours of learning, helping to inspire the next generation in science, technology, engineering, and maths. Their partnership with Bridge of Hope, is removing barriers to employment...

West Mercia Police Procurement: The 3-9-27 Model

Corporate Social Responsibility is not just a metric; it’s a core driver of our organisational & departmental strategy. It underpins support for the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Safer West Mercia Plan, informs our assessment of the most advantageous tenders, and...

Durham's Strategic Priorities

The Safe Durham Partnership is required by statute to develop an annual strategic assessment. Its purpose is to enable the Safe Durham Partnership Board to: identify its strategic priorities for the forthcoming year, identify key crime and disorder risks and...

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.