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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Derbyshire County Council

TS17003 - Supply of an Internally Hosted Contact Centre Telephony and Multi-Channel Solution with Associated Services

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000 72000000
Value£650k
Awarded8 Jun 2017
Published25 Jan 2018
RegionEast Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£650ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Council requires an internally hosted contact centre telephony and multi-channel solution that enables its contact centre to manage and respond to incoming and outgoing telephone calls and all customer interaction s regardless of channel.

Associated services include training, implementation, support and maintenance and ad hoc consultancy.

A web chat module is also required to help the Council encourage greater take-up of online services to reduce the number of enquiries and referrals made by other means (e.g.

Phone calls and e-mail, social media, text message).

The Solution needs to be agile, adaptable and easily configurable by non-IT staff.

It needs to provide multi-channel visibility and allow Contact Centre business administrators and supervisors to quickly implement operational changes.

The Solution must be resilient to ensure the continued safe delivery of complex and urgent social care calls, which are handled by Call Derbyshire 24/7/365.

The Solution must be scalable, so it can be deployed to other areas of the Council if required and be responsive to changes in demand and functionality The Council takes calls on behalf of other local authorities and.

Government bodies who will not have access to the Solution themselves.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Associated services include training, implementation, support

Associated services include training, implementation, support and maintenance and ad hoc consultancy.

02

A web chat module is also required

A web chat module is also required to help the Council encourage greater take-up of online services to reduce the number of enquiries and referrals made by other means (e.g.

03

The Solution needs to be agile, adaptable

The Solution needs to be agile, adaptable and easily configurable by non-IT staff.

04

It needs to provide multi-channel visibility

It needs to provide multi-channel visibility and allow Contact Centre business administrators and supervisors to quickly implement operational changes.

05

The Solution must be resilient to ensure

The Solution must be resilient to ensure the continued safe delivery of complex and urgent social care calls, which are handled by Call Derbyshire 24/7/365.

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