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...

Meet WMRSASC

West Mercia Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre (WMRSASC) was established within Worcestershire in 1986 as a telephone support service for women only.Services expanded gradually to include counselling support and the launch of the first Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA)...

Supporting UK Emergency Services & Communities

Supporting local communities by creating jobs and opportunities including employment veterans / emergency service personnel in medical logistics and supply...

Tailored Image proudly supports Smart Works Charity

Tailored Image has helped empower individuals to feel confident in their job search through the supply of garments suitable for interviews...

Social Value at Tailored Image: Supporting Restorative Justice at Hydebank College

Tailored Image was proud to demonstrate its commitment to social value through a recent project with Hydebank Wood Secure College and Women’s Prison in Northern Ireland. The scheme involved the donation of 3 sewing machines and hundreds of garments as...

Police and Crime Commissioner launches Safer Norfolk initiative with partners

Supported within the DICM (Norfolk) social value marketplace, The Norfolk Community Safety Partnership (NCSP) brings together local councils, police, fire services, probation, youth services, health, and housing—to tackle crime, reduce disorder, and respond to serious violence. The goal is to...

Cambs & Peterborough PCC calls for a robust policing response to tackle a rise in certain crimes.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s police and crime commissioner Darryl Preston says a “robust policing response” is needed to tackle a rise in certain crimes". A police and crime panel met on July 16 to review PCC Darryl Preston’s draft annual report...

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.