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...

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...

65 people arrested an estimated £618,000 worth of drugs seized as part of a county lines intensification week at the end of June

"County Lines is something we do take very seriously in West Mercia and we will target organised crime networks that bring drugs from other towns and areas into ours. We need to keep getting that message out that they're not...