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# Business Process Outsourcing Customer Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/business-process-outsourcing-customer-services-ocds-h6vhtk-032d02). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED: "Business Process Outsourcing Customer Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: £63,000,000. 3 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 3 May 2022, 10:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/thames-water-utilities-limited-coh-02366661)
- **Published Value:** £63,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 3 May 2022 at 10:00 BST
- **Lots:** 3
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Customer services, Customer-care services, Electronic message services, Helpdesk and support services, Miscellaneous business and business-related services (+1 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKI, UKJ
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-032d02`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/business-process-outsourcing-customer-services-ocds-h6vhtk-032d02#tl-md)

## Description
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

## Lots (3)
### Lot 1: Digital Led Customer Contact
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 64216100, 79342320
- **Delivery regions:** UKI, UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £15,000,000
- **Description:** 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 ...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 72253000, 79900000
- **Delivery regions:** UKI, UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £45,000,000
- **Description:** 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 ...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 3: Post Room Services
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 64110000
- **Delivery regions:** UKI, UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £3,000,000
- **Description:** 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 o...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (3)
- **Award:** Supply of Digital Led Customer Contact (active)
  - Award id: `005736-2023-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Tech Mahindra Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-52606`

- **Award:** Supply of Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice (active)
  - Award id: `005736-2023-2`
  - Supplier(s): **EXL**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:12-690-1029`

- **Award:** Supply of Postroom Services (active)
  - Award id: `005736-2023-3`
  - Supplier(s): **Swiss Post Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-154548`

## Contracts (3)
- **Contract:** Supply of Digital Led Customer Contact (active)

  - Signed Date: 30/01/2023

- **Contract:** Supply of Transactional Back Office and Contingency Voice (active)

  - Signed Date: 30/01/2023

- **Contract:** Supply of Postroom Services (active)

  - Signed Date: 30/01/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F005736-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-02-27T16:09:50.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T07:41:09.623Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-032d02