Thames Valley

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Buckinghamshire, Berskshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire.

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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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Featured community provisions to support within contracts:

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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Here's where businesses and communities share the real updates on social value and the support for impact...

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

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

Support for Community Cyber Resilience

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…

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

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...

Social Value Marketplace sees police supplier SYTECH Consultants collaborate in support of safer Thames Valley objectives.

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

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

"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...

Strategic benefits from public procurement within DICM areas

There's a major challenge facing every elected and appointed official, when it comes to how they resource the key locally led services and programmes as part of their long-term community safety priorities...There are expected cuts to Home Office and Ministry...

Supporting UK Emergency Services & Communities

Supporting local communities by creating jobs and opportunities including employment veterans / emergency service personnel in medical logistics and supply...

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