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Business Process Outsourcing Customer Services

Buyer: THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED →

BuyerTHAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published27 Feb 2023

What is being bought

Thames Water is seeking to award Services Agreements to multiple providers for the provision of customer services across three lots: Lot 1 - Digital led customer contact: delivering first tier contact on digital medium Lot 2 - Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice: Transactional, Ticketing and Exceptions Processing Lot 3 - Post room services We are looking for partner(s) with proven expertise to play a core role in delivering Thames Water's customer experience vision through: Maintaining, improving and transforming services; Increasing customers choice in the way they interact with us; and, Increasing levels of automation. The selected bidders will be able to demonstrate how they would support Thames Water's customer service strategy and its outcomes. Bidders can apply for one or multiple lots. Thames Water may award more than one lot to a single bidder taking into account the evaluation of each individual lot; the tendered aggregate operational and commercial benefits to be obtained from the award of more than one lot; and, bidders stated preferences for award of lots at PQQ stage

Delivery location

UKI · UKJ · UKI · UKJ · UKI · UKJ

Categories

Postal services 64110000Electronic message services 64216100Helpdesk and support services 72253000Customer-care services 79342320Miscellaneous business and business-related services 79900000Customer services 79342300

Lot details

Digital Led Customer Contact

Thames Water is seeking a service provider for first tier customer contact through digitised media channels (including for but not limited to two-way messaging, web chat, social media). It is expected that bidders will bring solutions to deliver our strategic outcomes in achieving a customer centric service where transactional work is highly automated and consistently delivered with residual human work. Thames Water intends to award this lot to a single provider. Additional information: Thames Water will reserve the right to seek bidder confirmation of value to be derived from the award of more than one lot and apply this value to the evaluation process and to any contractual commitment on award. This will form part of the evaluation at ITN stage.

Statuscancelled

Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice

Thames Water is seeking a service provider to take ownership of and deliver back office transactional services (such as but not limited to service desk, exception management, cash operations (invoicing), billing, metering and home move transactional services). It is expected the service provider will bring solutions to deliver against our strategic outcomes delivering a high-quality customer centric service where transactional work is highly automated and consistently delivered with residual human work. The services are predominantly non-voice, the requirement also includes for some provision of outbound telephony, and contingency voice; in times of planned or unplanned incidents or peaks when, Thames Water may call upon the provider to lend voice contact services. Thames Water intends to award this lot to a single provider. Additional information: Thames Water requires bidders to sign an unamended one-way non-disclosure agreement, prior to accessing the draft ITN content. Thames Water will reserve the right to seek bidder confirmation of value to be derived from the award of more than one lot and apply this value to the evaluation process and to any contractual commitment on award. This will form part of the evaluation at ITN stage.

Statuscancelled

Post Room Services

Thames Water is seeking a service provider to take ownership of and deliver our post room services and document handling centre. Thames Water is looking for the service provider to take on the service delivery and bring solutions to deliver against our strategic outcomes with a high-quality service; creating a cost optimised approach where services are increasingly automated and consistently delivered. Thames Water intends to award this lot to a single provider. Additional information: Thames Water requires bidders to sign an unamended one-way non-disclosure agreement, prior to accessing the draft ITN content. Thames Water will reserve the right to seek bidder confirmation of value to be derived from the award of more than one Lot and apply this value to the contract value on award. This will form part of the evaluation at ITN stage.

Statuscancelled

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Electronic message services, Customer-care servicesNot published
2Helpdesk and support services, Miscellaneous business and business-related servicesNot published
3Postal servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 64. The category anchor is Postal services (64110000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 641,3393 median · 18.9 average (416 of 1,339 with a bid count)2.3 average (500 of 1,339 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not published6 average (1 of 2 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKI692 median · 3.9 average (29 of 69 with a bid count)1.3 average (34 of 69 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Supply of Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice

Statusactive
SupplierEXL

Contracts

Supply of Digital Led Customer Contact

Statusactive

Supply of Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice

Statusactive

Supply of Postroom Services

Statusactive

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-032d02
Latest release ID005736-2023
Latest release timestampMon Feb 27 2023 16:09:50 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsNegotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0025
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release3
Contracts in latest release3
Parties in latest release6

Notice history

DateEventReference
27 Feb 2023award, contract005736-2023
13 Apr 2022tender009829-2022

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
27 Feb 2023 · 005736-2023 · award, contract
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13 Apr 2022 · 009829-2022 · tender
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  "date": "2022-04-13T08:35:00+01:00",
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