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Reading Borough Council

Out of Business Hours (OOH) Call Handling Service Contract - AWARD

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79500000
Value£50k
Awarded27 Oct 2016
Published1 Feb 2017
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£50ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Business Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

As part of its service delivery, Reading Borough Council (RBC) is required to provide an Out of Hours (OOH) Call Handling Service for when its Call Centre, switchboard, Civic Offices and satellite offices are closed.

The OOH service is required for both members of the public and the Council's internal departments.

The Council currently has in place arrangements for the provision of an Out of Hours Call Handling Service, however this is due to come to an end in January 2017.

The contractor will provide an Out of Hours Call Handling telephone response service on behalf of tenants and residents of Reading Borough Council; Affinity Housing Association and Catalyst Housing Association.

The service to be available 365 days per year with coverage from 17:00 to 09:00 hours Monday to Friday and from 17:00 hours Friday to 09:00 Monday (weekend coverage).

The purpose of the service is to respond to emergency calls, but which good practice standards indicate should be responded to before the next working day and where delay could be detrimental to the individual caller or the physical integrity or security of RBC's leased and owned buildings, including the Civic Offices building, and equipment, facilities and services.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

As part of its service delivery, Reading

As part of its service delivery, Reading Borough Council (RBC) is required to provide an Out of Hours (OOH) Call Handling Service for when its Call Centre, switchboard, Civic Offices and satellite offices are closed.

02

The contractor will provide an Out

The contractor will provide an Out of Hours Call Handling telephone response service on behalf of tenants and residents of Reading Borough Council; Affinity Housing Association and Catalyst Housing Association.

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Source & provenance
OCID
47884b51-670b-41e3-8793-823854e28d93
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
RBC 00000162 - AWARD
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