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Eastbourne Borough Council

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony Contract

Communications EquipmentCPV 32000000
Value£380k
Awarded24 Jul 2016
Published17 Jan 2017
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£380ktotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Radio, TV & Communications Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 6,686 valued Radio, TV & Communications Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony Contract Notice Lewes District Council and Eastbourne Borough Council are seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to undertake its new (VoIP) Telephony Services Contract under contractual arrangements set out in more detail in the documentation accompanying this notice.

EBC and LDC are seeking a single, modern, functioning telephony and contact centre solution that will: •Replace LDC’s existing (hosted) telephony service and upgrade and/or improve the EBC Mitel platform. •Support shared services, including a joint contact centre that can operate across multiple locations, retention of both councils’ existing number ranges •Integrate via CTI with the councils’ customer relationship management system (Civica Connect360). •Enable improvements to customer service, including the ability to handle up to 100 concurrent calls into the contact centre •Provide high quality management information to enable performance management of call handling staff, demand forecasting and to help plan services more effectively. •Support flexible working practices for staff including home and mobile working. •Ensure resilience, including failover to either primary site in the event of loss of service at the other.

The procurement of this contract will be conducted using a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation, where the councils reserve the right to award the contract once initial tenders have been evaluated.

The Pre-Qualification questionnaire will be comprised of mandatory Pass/Fail Questions and 7 qualitative evaluation questions, which will be scored out of 100 and enable the evaluation panel to deselect to 5 suppliers.

The Evaluation criteria for the Invitation to Tender will be based on Quality and Price.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Support shared services, including a joint contact

Support shared services, including a joint contact centre that can operate across multiple locations, retention of both councils’ existing number ranges.

02

Integrate via CTI with the councils’ customer

Integrate via CTI with the councils’ customer relationship management system (Civica Connect360).

03

Provide high quality management information to enable

Provide high quality management information to enable performance management of call handling staff, demand forecasting and to help plan services more effectively.

04

Support flexible working practices for staff including

Support flexible working practices for staff including home and mobile working.

05

Ensure resilience, including failover to either primary

Ensure resilience, including failover to either primary site in the event of loss of service at the other.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
1d3a4e4c-ae7a-4d45-bb6c-ccd448d20b5a
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
EBBC - 008119/2
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