Here's where public contracting is enabling a dual impact!
Public contracting is joined strategically for dual impact social value across areas: now buyers are collaborating to harness supplier social value into helping build healthier, safer and more resilient communities.
Suppliers no longer working in social value silos: now they're supporting a whole area's needs and social value feeds the existing local activities already recognised as delivering dual impact.
Protecting proven dual impact activities from charities & social enterprises: now social value is harnessed, feeding vital resources to sustain the local activities already delivering a dual impact.
The Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM)
Built with senior police and crown procurement leaders, geographic and strategically connects public commissioning & procurement (buyers) to achieve a dual impact which is evident to residents and taxpayers.
The model operates across 45 territories within our UK ecosystem environment, with support in place for public buyers through technology and processes embedded into community-led activities delivering a dual impact - which business suppliers then support for contract social value.
Primary Impact
Geographically connecting businesses into the programmes/services proven to be building healthier, safer and more resilient communities;
Secondary Impact
The primary impact leading-onto tangibly reducing the frontline costs of policing, healthcare, social services and criminal justice..
The DICM operates through police buying within the 45 territories, connecting with the wider buying groups from councils, NHS, fire & rescue and criminal justice services.
A new support for public buyers...
The objective of the DICM is to suppoirt buyers to harness their supplier social value against a strategic dual impact objective within a territory. Helping them remove impact ambiguity by easing the contract social value definition and review process.
The DICM enables buyers to contract with aligned and specific social value established within a fixed geographical area, to see HOW & WHERE every supplier's social value is supporting the wider dual impact objective in a territory.
Target!
Community-facing colleagues connect-in the locally-led activities already delivering a dual impact
Spotlight!
Our ecosystem helps digitally position these activities (dual impact) for suppliers to find and engage with.
Score!
The SPO supports contracting helping to score social value within tenders, pinpointing HOW & WHERE.
Contract!
Buyers contractually lock-in the SPO and the specifics of social value, formalising this commitment.
Real-time!
Ecosystem technology helps category management teams evaluate an SPO progress in real-time.
Shape!
Ongoing metrics are fed-into each territory's DICM collaborators, supporting internal and external ESG reporting.
Our ecosystem's Social Purchase Order (SPO) process
The SPO is a digital process enabling our business members to formally link-into the local community provisions strategically embedded into the DICM within 45 UK territories.
It's a relationship mechanism which formalises the agreed social value support agreed between a business and community provider(s), specifically signposting to HOW & WHERE social value will be contributing towards the dual impact objectives of a provider within the territory.
The SPO is submitted by a business as part of their social value statement within a supply contract bid process, and enables the buyer to use the specifics to score against their criteria.
A SPO is only deliverable when a contract is awarded, and then becomes part of the post-contract review process within our ecosystem.
Community validation of dual impact...
Embedded into the DICM is regional dual impact research.
Dedicated hubs, operated with ecosystem university members within 12 regions to capture and evaluate, publish and circulate the evidence of development with a dual impact.
Join a DICM in your territory!
The objective is for buying leaders within police, councils, NHS, fire & rescue and criminal justice to strategically collaborate and adopt the DICM in all 45 UK territories.
In doing this, businesses have the support they need to contribute social value strategically and play their part in the achievement of a dual impact and taxpayer SROI.
Thames Valley, where it all began...
Built with senior police and crown procurement leaders, we launched the DICM as a pilot into the Thames Valley region in 2023.
Thames Valley Police led this strategically, embedding the pilot into the office of the elected Police & Crime Commissioner and wider partners. Over 18 months, the pilot was established in terms of a public buying activity for the sustainable approach to safer communities via the funding of key prevention activities across the region.
In March 2024, the DICM opened into all 45 police commissioning & procurement territories. From January 2025, the objective being to scale within each territory, engaging strategically with buyer groups in councils, NHS, fire and criminal justice service contracting.
The early DICMs established within 11 territories were:
