This is the heart of the Pluggin Ecosystem, where our "Dual Impact Collaboration" process harnesses business social value within supply contracts to the provisions supporting strategic impact objectives of our public buyer partners.
Primary Impact
Geographically, businesses supporting the local charities & social enterprises building healthier, safer and more resilient communities;
Secondary Impact
Primary Impact delivering secondary impact through reductions in costs of frontline policing, health & community care, and criminal justice.
Built with and for UK public procurement leaders, it bridges the gap between business suppliers and public buying authorities by harnessing contract social value as the visible, measurable and sustainable resource for community organisations to deliver impact aligned with strategic objectives.
This is all visible in real-time within a public-facing, media-rich environment; making social value the business differentiator and a true measure of Taxpayer Return on Investment delivered by our public buyers.
Get some insight from marketplace design collaborator David Levy, former Director of Commercial Services Seven Force Commercial Services.
Where business social value is the visible, dynamic and differentiating aspect of public contracts.
Across 12 regions of the UK, our marketplace puts supplier social value central to the resourcing of community activities that address specified local priorities such as reducing crime, improving community safety, and enhancing health outcomes.
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A live and dynamic buying environment, showing How & Where social value is supporting local impact.
- A Dual Impact Collaboration process develops and bakes-in contributory social value within contracting.
- Real-time visibility of contracted social value flowing into specific community activities and resulting impact.
- Charities and social enterprises showcasing their impact with the suppliers supporting them; powerful impact storytelling.
- Dedicated area newsfeeds promoting stories and insights directly to search engines, ensuring the impact can be seen "far and wide.
- Social value turned into a business differentiator and a sales factor, with companies "marketing their social value impact contributions, for public tenders.
This is a long-term, regional approach to harness social value across public contracting...
The Pluggin Marketplace is evolving rapidly, we're transforming contract social value into impact collaborations across senior public procurement leaders within 12 regions.
In each region, a Buyer Steering Group is being supported to shape policy and practice in order for all public buying authorities to build far-reaching approaches where contracted social value is used to support approaches to tackle the major health, safety and resilience issues facing communities and the UK economy.
Many well-known suppliers were quick to join...
Businesses of all sizes operate their bids and contracts within the Pluggin Marketplace; many of the big brands joining first as they recognised the change being forged here and need for a business social value differentiation.
