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BRITISH COUNCIL(THE)

Complaints Messaging Service for IELTS

Communications EquipmentCPV 32543000 32551200 64213000 64214000 79510000
Value£49k
Awarded15 Jul 2019
Published5 May 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£49ktotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Radio, TV & Communications Equipment band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 6,686 valued Radio, TV & Communications Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The British Council are developing a new complaints process, to provide customers with a single line of contact for IELTS.

British Council, IDP, IELTS Australia (IDP) and Cambridge Assessment English jointly own the IELTS test.

IELTS USA manages the administration of IELTS operations throughout the US test centre network and therefore any complaints received will need to be distributed to 1 of 4 parties.

A 24/7 telephone complaints messaging service is required to log and distribute calls to relevant parties: the British Council, IDP, Cambridge Assessment English or IELTS USA.

The call handler must ensure on receiving the call that they log who the complaint is relevant for and ensure that only the relevant party receives the captured information.

The supplier must also ensure that all information reported confirms whether the complaint was logged in the UK (for a UK test) or in the rest of the world (for a rest of the world test).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The British Council are developing a new

The British Council are developing a new complaints process, to provide customers with a single line of contact for IELTS.

02

IELTS USA manages the administration of IELTS

IELTS USA manages the administration of IELTS operations throughout the US test centre network and therefore any complaints received will need to be distributed to 1 of 4 parties.

03

A 24/7 telephone complaints messaging service is

A 24/7 telephone complaints messaging service is required to log and distribute calls to relevant parties: the British Council, IDP, Cambridge Assessment English or IELTS USA.

04

The call handler must ensure on receiving

The call handler must ensure on receiving the call that they log who the complaint is relevant for and ensure that only the relevant party receives the captured information.

05

The supplier must also ensure that all

The supplier must also ensure that all information reported confirms whether the complaint was logged in the UK (for a UK test) or in the rest of the world (for a rest of the world test).

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
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