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...

Connecting expertise and support into small businesses and charities to build community cyber resilience

To bolster the scale of expertise and resources available to community organisations and SMEs, the Pluggin Marketplace is enabling business cyber security knowledge as social value within supply contracts, in line with Home Office funded support from the National Cyber...

Welsh Community Impact From Forces Fitness

Meet Forces Fitness, a multi-award winning social enterprise run by veterans is now being supported by police buying in Wales; where business social value meets police and crime plan objectives...

Axis Counselling confirmed as new provider for vital victim services commissioned by PCC

Specialist West Mercia charity wins contract to provide a joined-up approach which will give victims a seamless and consistent support pathway, helping them understand their options, navigate the criminal justice process and access the emotional and practical help they need...

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

New kid on the block Pluggin Ecosystem differs significantly from the more established Social Value Portal, but how?...

Support for Community Cyber Resilience

The cyber resilience of social enterprises and SMEs is now being supported through public buying within the Pluggin Marketplace.A mix of National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG) support and the contract social value (equipment and knowledge exchange volunteering) from technology...

Meet Guiding Young Minds (GYM)

Guiding Young Minds (GYM) as a service, grew and developed from the charity ASSIST Trauma Care; a specialist therapeutic organisation dedicated to supporting people who have suffered psychological trauma. GYM is now a therapeutic service which recognises that young people...

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.