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...

Local charity welcomes high profile new Chairman

Chris Heaton-Harris, Former MP for Daventry and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to chair the board of trustees at a local registered charity, The Reach for Health Centre...

A Safer Northants

New chief constable of Northamptonshire Police has told a police, fire and crime panel confirmation hearing that he wants to make Northamptonshire the "safest county in the UK"...

STEPs Project by Catch 22

Catch22 begins delivering a new Support Through Exploitation and Prevention Service (STEPS) commissioned by the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner.   With over ten years of experience supporting victims of child exploitation across England, Catch22 is bringing this knowledge to West...

Life-saving bleed kits installed in Darlington

New trauma cabinets, stocked with life-saving bleed kits, have been installed in key locations around Darlington town centre. Positioned alongside existing defibrillators, these kits provide essential tools to help control severe bleeding in an emergency before paramedics arrive. The cabinets...

Meet Boxing Clever MK

Boxing Clever MK originally operated as a Community Interest Company (CIC) established by a police officer as an early intervention program to help young people develop social and emotional skills. The program has expanded to include multiple locations and partnerships...

Meet SOFEA

The School Navigators Programme was initially launched and funded by the Home Office, and is now a community prevention process being scaled under the DICM...

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.