Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions: Secure Card Payment Services Procurement
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This is a large award for Postal & Telecommunications — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for administering welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy in the UK, serving around 20 million claimants.
The new SCPS Contract is required to ensure continuing capability for the DWP to receive customer payments in a PCI DSS compliant manner and provide all Outbound Telephone calls for the DWP.
The current DWP provision allows business groups to receive customer payments in a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant manner, including an Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) capability to facilitate payments.
The DWP service and SCPS contract currently supports approximately 9,000 agents.
The current SCPS contract also includes the routing of outbound calls via the PCI DSS compliant service provider.
The DWP takes approximately 750,000 card payments per annum, totalling approximately £130M per annum.
This is collected by two areas of the DWP and Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities: Child Maintenance Group (CMG); and Debt Recovery.
The DWP is undertaking this procurement process to secure a new SCPS Contract that can meet the current and future needs of the service to ensure value for money and service continuity.
This contract will replace the current SCPS contract that enables Debt and Child Maintenance business groups to take customer payments using a Dual Tone Masking Frequency (DTMF) facility.
Under the new SCPS Contract, the DWP has identified the following requirements: 1.
Secure Card Payment Services (SCPS): The ability to take payments via inbound and outbound calls in secure fashion for 11,000 agents (SIP Licences); 2.
Outbound Call Services - Due to the current architecture, all Outbound calls will traverse the SCPS.
Regardless of whether a payment is taken or not all Outbound calls will use the Solution provided; 3.
Self-Serve IVR Service - This will be used for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) and is to be outside of DWP.
This is used to recover payments from non-payees via payroll.
It sits outside of DWP Infrastructure within the supplier’s environment; 4.
Nailed up PSTN (Optional) – The DWP may require additional outbound call capacity to enable the DWP to deploy a Nailed Up PSTN Solution to deliver voice connectivity to 3rd party outsourcer for up to 6 months after contract start; 5.
Additional SIP Licences (Optional) – The DWP may require an additional 2000 agents (with associated SIP Licences) to enable DWP to deploy a Nailed Up PSTN Solution following commencement of the provision of the services.
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Additional OB channels are required as a tactical Solution to support significant increase in volume of long duration outbound calls being generated by the Genesys platform.
What the supplier must deliver
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for administering welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy in the UK, serving around 20 million claimants.
The new SCPS Contract is required
The new SCPS Contract is required to ensure continuing capability for the DWP to receive customer payments in a PCI DSS compliant manner and provide all Outbound Telephone calls for the DWP.
The DWP is undertaking this procurement process
The DWP is undertaking this procurement process to secure a new SCPS Contract that can meet the current and future needs of the service to ensure value for money and service continuity.
The DWP may require additional outbound call
The DWP may require additional outbound call capacity to enable the DWP to deploy a Nailed Up PSTN Solution to deliver voice connectivity to 3rd party outsourcer for up to 6 months after contract start;.
Additional OB channels are required as
Additional OB channels are required as a tactical Solution to support significant increase in volume of long duration outbound calls being generated by the Genesys platform.
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