Hampshire & Isle of White

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Winchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Eastleigh, Fareham, and the Isle of Wight.

 
 
 

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These businesses are helping us make this marketplace a free collaboration space for everyone, to enable public bodies to support the evolution of impact in local communities. 

 

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Business members who supply the emergency services, councils, NHS and criminal justice services can utilise this area to find and engage with buyer approved community activities and projects making impact; to develop contributory social value within bids or as part of their ongoing social value marketing:  

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Here's where public buyers have positioned the community provisions already making impact aligned with their strategic objectives, which can be engaged with as social value collaborations in supply contracts. 

 
 
 

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Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

2 March 202661
New kid on the block Pluggin Ecosystem differs significantly from the more established Social Value Portal, but how?...

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

5 November 2025666
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 sees police supplier SYTECH Consultants collaborate in support of safer Thames Valley objectives.

15 October 2025,540
Major police supplier SYTECH has collaborated with Reading Football Club Community Trust inside the DICM Social Value Marketplace, a £5k social value commitment now supports the Trust's Custody Coaches service for under 18 year olds...

Pluggin Ecosystem founder explains why the UK approach to social value had to change

6 October 2025407
Pluggin Ecosystem founder Jay Baughan talks to ActionCOACH about why the UK approach to business social value needed to change to maximise the full community impact potential...

Public contract social value in Thames Valley is underpinning community-led provisions

26 September 2025434
"We can't police our way out of this" In 2023, Thames Valley Police's procurement team (led by Richard Fowles) saw real potential in better targeting their supply contracts' social value (a return on goods and services investments) into the community-led...

Leading the way for regionally connecting social value

4 January 2024186
In the summer of 2023, a police procurement collaboration began with UK social enterprise Pluggin Ecosystem, which led to the Thames Valley being the first region to develop and pilot the Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM) as the way to...

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