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LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST LIMITED

Out of Hours Call Handling Services

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79300000 79340000 79342000 79500000
Value£499k
Awarded20 Jun 2019
Published20 Aug 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£499ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

L&Q is one of the largest providers of affordable housing in the UK, managing over 90,000 homes in London and the south east of England.

Although L&Q work with over 100 local authorities, almost 80% of our homes are located in London boroughs.

L&Q have the largest development programme of any Registered Provider operating in the London area.

Further information about L&Q Group can be found at www.lqgroup.org.uk L&Q is seeking a Supplier with an excellent track record of providing a high standard of call handling and associated services relevant to the scope of the specification.

The Supplier will delivering the required services to customers in the UK comparative to the size and complexity of L&Q.

Managing telephone calls from L&Q's customers (or persons acting on their behalf) outside of L&Q's normal operating hours.

The Supplier shall provide an 'Out of Hours' (OOH) telephone call handling service (Services) for residents of London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) and other organisations who L&Q take Inbound Calls from on behalf of such as L&Q Energy, L&Q Living and Triathlon Homes who require L&Q offered services such emergency repairs or urgent assistance for situations that have arisen.

The Services shall include other methods of contact such as webchat (this is not-exhaustive) as proposed by any successful Bidder.

In providing the Services the Supplier shall be required to make Outbound Calls also and may also be required to provide an Inbound Calls overflow facility during L&Q's normal operating hours.

TUPE is considered by the incumbent supplier to apply to the ongoing provision of these Services.

Any successful bidder will be expected to contract with L&Q using the form of tender supplied with the procurement documentation (once updated to include the specific details of the successful bid).

Please see the procurement documentation for all information.

Enquiries may be made through the correspondence facility of L&Q's eSourcing portal In-Tend.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Services shall include other methods

The Services shall include other methods of contact such as webchat (this is not-exhaustive) as proposed by any successful Bidder.

02

In providing the Services the Supplier shall

In providing the Services the Supplier shall be required to make Outbound Calls also and may also be required to provide an Inbound Calls overflow facility during L&Q's normal operating hours.

03

Any successful bidder will be expected

Any successful bidder will be expected to contract with L&Q using the form of tender supplied with the procurement documentation (once updated to include the specific details of the successful bid).

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

TUPE transferContract conditions
TUPE is considered by the incumbent supplier to apply to the ongoing provision of these Services.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
978a03e2-d83b-4825-9ff3-12d1abb52d7d
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CUS00152
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