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Contact Centre Services

Buyer: Kent County Council →

BuyerKent County Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published19 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Kent County Council have appointed Capita Business Services Ltd as the provider for SC230157 - Contact Centre Services on a four year contract, commencing on 1st April 2026, with an optional 3 year extension available. Capita will deliver a high quality, value for money and efficient contact centre service to the residents of Kent. These services will include: • 24 hours, 7 days a week service provision (essential provision only Out of Hours) • key telephony services for KCC's customer contacts • Emergency calls • Harnessing technology to enable customers to self-serve or reach their outcome in the quickest possible way

Delivery location

UKJ4

Categories

Call centre 79512000

Lot details

Lot 1

Kent County Council have appointed Capita Business Services Ltd as the provider for SC230157 - Contact Centre Services on a four year contract, commencing on 1st April 2026, with an optional 3 year extension available. Capita will deliver a high quality, value for money and efficient contact centre service to the residents of Kent. These services will include: • 24 hours, 7 days a week service provision (essential provision only Out of Hours) • key telephony services for KCC's customer contacts • Emergency calls • Harnessing technology to enable customers to self-serve or reach their outcome in the quickest possible way

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Call centre (79512000); 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 794,9463 median · 32.6 average (1,478 of 4,946 with a bid count)2.9 average (1,653 of 4,946 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer33.5 median · 3.5 average (2 of 3 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 3 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKJ4292.5 median · 3.4 average (8 of 29 with a bid count)1.3 average (9 of 29 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

Contracts

084974-2025-1

Statusactive
Value£9,142,634

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-04e286
Latest release ID084974-2025
Latest release timestampFri Dec 19 2025 14:35:28 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive procedure with negotiation
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
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 source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
19 Dec 2025award, contract084974-2025
17 Feb 2025tender005317-2025

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)
19 Dec 2025 · 084974-2025 · award, contract
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17 Feb 2025 · 005317-2025 · tender
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