DICM (Northern Ireland) Social Value Marketplace

This marketplace spans Northern Ireland. It's where public buyers and business suppliers are collaborating to use contract social value to build healthier, safer and more resilient communities.

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Any business supplying into the region's emergency services, councils, NHS or criminal justice services can develop contract social value which is built around supporting local provisions here who are meeting the Safer Communities objectives.
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Community provisions aligned to and directly supporting safer communities objectives...

The following community-led provisions are aligned to and support the Police & Crime Plan and Community Safety Partnerships' priorities.

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Updates and insights from within communities...

The HBS Scheme Playbook

23 April 2026
This HBS Scheme playbook is a quick-step way for sales and marketing teams to take an early-entry position of founding member ahead of the main roll-out of the HBS Scheme; the scheme is creating a new brand differentiator by moving...

Mitigating the £3.3bn Retail Crime & Safety Risk: How Strategic Social Value is helping Reclaim the High Street

9 April 2026
To protect the long-term viability of the high street, we must pivot from containment to structural prevention. The most potent tool for this transition lies within an unexpected quarter: Public Procurement...

Helping Police Executives Operationalise Social Value via the Pluggin Marketplace

29 March 2026
Read how this fully established UK marketplace, is leveraging the multi-billion pound police and council supply chains within an area to create sustainable, private sector funded safety nets for your neighbourhoods, aligned perfectly with your statutory multi-agency objectives and obligations...

Giving Life to Unused Garments – Sustainability in Action at Tailored Image

19 March 2026
Tailored Image has engaged with two organisations to address how uniforms are given a purposeful life beyond their initial use. Through its work with a recycling partner in the UK and a charitable organisation in Ireland, the company has demonstrated...

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

13 March 2026
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...

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

2 March 2026
New kid on the block Pluggin Ecosystem differs significantly from the more established Social Value Portal, but how?...

Support for Community Cyber Resilience

13 February 2026,
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...

Public procurement helped create the UKs first dynamic, public-facing social value marketplace…

5 November 2025
The Pluggin Marketplace was built with and for UK public procurement bodies, the UKs first dynamic and public facing social value marketplace supporting how suppliers collaborate within charities for tangible community impact through public contracting...

Social Value Marketplace enables Telefónica Tech to support West Mercia Police apprenticeships

21 October 2025
Telefónica Tech are proudly supporting a 3 year Police constable (integrated degree), Level: 6 (1 Apprentice) for West Mercia Police by paying for the tuition on the course...

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