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...

Leading the way for regionally connecting social value

In the summer of 2023, a police procurement collaboration began with UK social enterprise Pluggin Ecosystem, which led to the Thames Valley being the first region to develop and pilot the Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM) as the way to...

Caudwell Youth Outcomes report February 2023

We are Caudwell Youth, a mentoring charity, working with young people at-risk aged 11-24. We specialise in mental health, at risk of offending, exploitation and care experience. As part of local strategic safer and more resilient communities objectives, we work...

Meet In Music In Media

Initiated in 2017, this project has evolved through ongoing development and analysis of practices, resulting in the refinement of impactful course content and the development of effective delivery methods...

Meet Teach Outdoors

Teach Outdoors are a regional education specialist support provider, which embed their Teach Outdoors programme into schools as part of core provision. About Teach Outdoors Through the Teach Outdoors programme, they provide training and support to teachers, enabling them to confidently incorporate...

Motorola Solutions is partnering with Social Enterprise UK

Motorola Solutions is partnering with Social Enterprise UK ... The company's everyday business spend will now address some of the UK's biggest social challenges, from homelessness to the climate emergency...

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.