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. 

 

 

Browse the regional map, or click into an area.

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Navigate by Area

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

Key insights and updates from across the marketplace...

UK study highlights risk factors of domestic abuse of older people

A Durham University study has revealed that older people are more likely to be abused by their partners than by a family member...

Pluggin Marketplace: Tired remedies won’t end youth knife crime

Children & Young People Now is the magazine and website for all professionals who work to improve the life chances of children, young people and families. It is the essential resource on the learning, development, wellbeing and safeguarding of children...

Wales: Violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence: strategy 2022 to 2026

A recent survey in Wales and England revealed that 69% of respondents had experienced sexual harassment, domestic abuse, violence, stalking or other offences...

Meet Crucial Crew

Since 1992, over 35,300 children having benefitted from this event, with Crucial Crew standing as a critical pillar in preparing young individuals for the challenges of secondary school and life beyond...

Strategic Priorities: Worcestershire, Shropshire and Herefordshire

Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) were introduced by Section 6 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and bring together local partners to formulate and implement strategies to tackle crime, disorder and antisocial behaviour in their communities...

Most dangerous areas in West Midlands where 1 in 8 people witness a crime

More than five million non-fraud crimes were recorded by the 43 domestic police forces in England and Wales in the year ending September 2024...

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.