The Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM)
Built with senior public buyers to connect-into public contracting, the DICM can harness supplier social giving within dual impact collaborations between businesses and community organisations; linking these as public agreements locked into public contracts.
Primary Impact
Geographically, businesses supporting programmes/services proven to be building healthier, safer and more resilient communities;
Secondary Impact
Sustained programmes/services leading-onto reductions in demand for and costs of frontline policing, health & community care, and criminal justice..
The DICM represents the UK's only interactive and community validated social value marketplace...
Across 12 UK regions, our ecosystem facilitates the DICM to establish and nurture tangible dual impact collaborations between businesses and community organisations; formalising and tracking these within public contracts with emergency services, local authorities, the NHS and criminal justices services.
Activities
Community activities already making dual impact are pre-validated and digitally positioned within regions for businesses to interact with.
Collaborations
The Social Purchase Order (SPO) process links with public contracting and helps businesses evidence social value collaborations with dual impact activity providers.
Measurement
The DICM's regional research hubs collect and evaluate longitudinal dual impact data to then provide insights and metrics to shape practice.
Engagement
Within regions, dedicated operations help in capturing, producing and promoting dual impact to build community awareness and engagement.
Strategically Aligned
Fundamentally, the DICM was built with UK policing as a scalable solution for consolidating and driving supplier social value into building safer communities.
The DICM was launched and piloted within the Thames Valley...
In 2023/2024 Thames Valley was the first of 45 UK territories to adopt the DICM as a model to align contracted social value with the Police and Crime Plan of their elected Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Barber.
Mobilising Civic University Pledges...
The DICM connects with higher education institutions through their published 'Civic University Pledge' to help the positive development of local communities.
This mobilises the pledges, whilst complementing core provisions:
- Aligning their procurement social value with wider public bodies.
- Connecting faculties and student learning into live dual impact activities inside communities.
- Commissioning academics to lead dual impact research operations within the DICM's 12 UK regions.
Any business can access & support the DICM
The DICM is the new social value marketplace for small, medium and large businesses who supply into the UK's emergency services, local authorities, NHS and criminal justice services