Contracts Finder notice
Council Tax Call Handlers
Authority: LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM
CPV: Office-support services (79500000)
Published contract value£325,023Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 Mar 2027
Awarded to NEC SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
Contract starts 1 Sept 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council Tax and Benefits Service has experienced increased demand across its revenues, recovery and customer contact functions. To support service delivery and maintain performance standards, the service requires additional telephony resources to manage customer enquiries, recovery activity and associated administration. The supply of extra call handlers will support Council Tax in relation to customer needs and help to maximise Council Tax revenue and recovery.
Award via VAS RM6259
Published procurement details
- Framework cited in notice
- Vertical Application Solutions · RM6259
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- 21967
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- No
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- E16 2QU
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision27 Jul 2026
- Contract starts1 Sept 2026
- Notice published5 Oct 2026
- Contract ends31 Mar 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAMContracting authority
- Identifier
- NWM · GB-LAE
Suppliers named on the notice
- NEC SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS UK LIMITEDSupplier
- Identifier
- 00968498 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-14588b1d-8424-4836-b667-decb6be107c6-2026-10-05T13:11:51+01:00
- Published
- 5 Oct 2026
- Latest update
- 5 Oct 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-14588b1d-8424-4836-b667-decb6be107c6
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-14588b1d-8424-4836-b667-decb6be107c6-1