In an era where the Procurement Act 2023 demands greater transparency and tangible outcomes, our Pluggin Marketplace provides the digital infrastructure to transform passive social value obligations into active, high-impact community health, safety and resilience.

DICM Engine

The Pluggin engine which connects, contracts, measures and promotes social value seamlessly between UK communities and public buying groups.

Brand Sponsorship

Business brand sponsorship 100% sustains the Pluggin Marketplace, in return for a central profile from which to showcase social value to public buyers.

Buyer Groups

Regionally, the public buying leaders are driving how social value is best harnessed and targeted on to resourcing lasting community impact.

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Why we do what we do !!

Partner with GYM Youth Bus to deliver measurable social value: reduce youth crime, boost community cohesion, provide skills and wellbeing support — sponsor sessions, equipment, or mentoring. Join us!!...

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

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...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part Two.

In an era of tightening budgets and complex community demands, the Home Office and our police forces are facing a fundamental question: How do we fund long-term prevention while maintaining a visible frontline? The answer doesn't lie in waiting for the...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part One.

It's 2026, Police budgets are under unprecedented strain. Yet the demand for community safety and multi-agency collaboration and funding continues to rise...

Helping Police Executives Operationalise Social Value via the Pluggin Marketplace

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

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...

The Pluggin Marketplace stands at the intersection of public commercial necessity and localised community impact.

Armed with our proprietary DICM Engine our strategic objective is to scale our support for social value within UK public procurement from £2.1 billion in contracted spending to over £10 billion.

This expansion is not just an aspirational target, it is a structurally supported business objective. The regulatory landscape of UK public procurement underwent a tectonic shift following the enactment of the Procurement Act 2023 and the deployment of the new Social Value Model (PPN 002).