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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Insights and updates from across the marketplace...

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...

PCC Community Safety Objectives for Bedfordshire

Suppliers to Bedfordshire's public bodies can now support the county's Police & Crime Plan - based-upon seven missions which are underpinned by objectives. The DICM (Bedfordshire) social valuer marketplace brings everything together for communities and business suppliers to collaborate for...

Telefónica Tech social value supports EDI within police ranks

West Mercia Police supplier Telefónica Tech is delivering social value linked to the strategic EDI objectives of the PALS programme, enhancing force approaches to existing community cohesion and engagement activities...

£1.8m of Home Office funding forms a base for tackling serious violence in the Thames Valley

£1.8m of Home Office funding goes into local partners as part of the ongoing drive to help tackle serious violence in the Thames Valley.Serious violence and knife enabled crime is falling in the Thames Valley, but further work is taking...

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).