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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Blackburn with Darwen

Digital Customer Portal

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£10.0m
Awarded18 Nov 2019
Published19 Mar 2020
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£10.8m

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

Award of Contract for Digital Customer Portal - The Digital Customer Platform/CRM will be required to replace our current Customer Contact Portal and become the preferred route for customers contacting and interacting with the Council.

The first phase of the project will be to replace and improve 91 integrated and non-integrated forms, replace and improve 23 workflow processes for our Customer Services and Environment Departments.

Further phases include replacing and improving 31 forms, PDF's and emails that currently sit outside the existing Customer Contact Portal these will require online forms and automated processes.

Replacing or integration to back office systems is key to the customer on-line experience so that when our customers report problems, request services, pay for services, book services and check progress against services they are using one system and account login.

The customer journey and experience is required to be seamless, effective and efficient.

The replacement system is required to be easy to use to enable our Business Departments to make local form and process changes so that as a Digital Authority we can grow and add more on-line services efficiently and effectively.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Digital Customer Platform/CRM will be required

The Digital Customer Platform/CRM will be required to replace our current Customer Contact Portal and become the preferred route for customers contacting and interacting with the Council.

02

The first phase of the project

The first phase of the project will be to replace and improve 91 integrated and non-integrated forms, replace and improve 23 workflow processes for our Customer Services and Environment Departments.

03

Replacing or integration to back office systems

Replacing or integration to back office systems is key to the customer on-line experience so that when our customers report problems, request services, pay for services, book services and check progress against services they are using one system and account login.

04

The customer journey and experience is required

The customer journey and experience is required to be seamless, effective and efficient.

05

The replacement system is required to

The replacement system is required to be easy to use to enable our Business Departments to make local form and process changes so that as a Digital Authority we can grow and add more on-line services efficiently and effectively.

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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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BLACKDARW001-DN442809-74675637
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