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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

O F W A T

Customer research on billing

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79300000 79310000 79311000
Value£123,000
Awarded19 Sept 2024
Published29 Oct 2024
RegionLondon

£123,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£123ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The broad aims of this research are to: - Understand more about the reasons for of billing contacts and complaints, and the customer journeys when engaging with companies about billing issues. - Capture the experiences of some of what might be classed as the 'worst served customers' in relation to billing and to understand the causes, factors and experiences that cause the most harm. - Consider the range of customer experience as they apply to: 1) different companies (this may include variations within companies as well as between companies) and organisations; 2) customers in different circumstances (for example, socio-demographics, vulnerable customers, customers struggling financially). - Identify any recommendations, learning or good practice in the handling of billing problems that can be used to inform Ofwat's licence condition guidance or wider work.

Examples of learning or good practice may relate to communications, support, timing or other aspects of the customer journey and complaint handling.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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Examples of learning or good practice may

Examples of learning or good practice may relate to communications, support, timing or other aspects of the customer journey and complaint handling.

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What this notice demands of you

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

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Identify any recommendations, learning or good practice in the handling of billing problems that can be used to inform Ofwat's licence condition guidance or wider work.

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