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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Futures Housing Group

FHICT021 supply/implement Unified Communcations & Contact Centre

Telecoms & PostCPV 64000000 64200000 64220000
Value£400k
Awarded1 Jan 2015
Published17 Jun 2015
RegionEast Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£400ktotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£7.9m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Postal & Telecommunications band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Futures Housing Group currently utilises Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CCUM) with IPFX.

To enable strategic objectives relating to customer 'channel shift' and improved organisational communications a Unified Communications system with multi channel Contact Centre is required.

The supplier must also provide services to take over supporting the organisations existing Cisco based LAN/WAN infrastructure (currently provided by the existing CCUM/IPFX incumbent).

Organisational communication improvement via telephone, email, instant messaging, video and desktop sharing/collaboration is required, with customers benefitting from multiple communication channel options including telephone, email, SMS, Skype, web chat and video, being managed by our Customer Services Teams via a Contact Centre in a consistent manner at first point of contact.

The UC and CC systems must work in a multi site environment supporting fixed (desk based), mobile, remote and flexible working team members using a range of devices.

Existing ISDN based communications are to be replaced with SIP to enable efficiencies, rationalisation and improve organisational resilience and flexibility.

Upgrade and/or replacement options for the existing CCUM and IPFX systems will be considered.

Futures Housing Group has identified Microsoft Lync 2013 as a potential UC system and Aspect Unified IP and Enghouse EICC (formerly Zeacom) as potential CC solutions and is seeking proposals by Competitive Dialogue either based upon these systems or upon equal and approved alternatives meeting or exceeding the same capabilities

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The supplier must also provide services

The supplier must also provide services to take over supporting the organisations existing Cisco based LAN/WAN infrastructure (currently provided by the existing CCUM/IPFX incumbent).

02

The UC and CC systems must work

The UC and CC systems must work in a multi site environment supporting fixed (desk based), mobile, remote and flexible working team members using a range of devices.

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Stage
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