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# Customer Engagement and Relationship Management

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/customer-engagement-and-relationship-management-ocds-h6vhtk-078e07). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** DFT Operator Limited 'DFTO': "Customer Engagement and Relationship Management". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [DFT Operator Limited 'DFTO'](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/dft-operator-limited-dfto-gov-pc1434)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Database and operating software package, Document creation software package, Sales, marketing and business intelligence software package, Software integration consultancy services, Software package utilities (+2 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/customer-engagement-and-relationship-management-ocds-h6vhtk-078e07#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-078e07`

## Before you bid
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- **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/customer-engagement-and-relationship-management-ocds-h6vhtk-078e07#tl-md)

## Description
DFT Operator Limited (DFTO) is undertaking preliminary market engagement to help inform the procurement strategy, contract scope and specification for a Customer Engagement and Relationship Management (CERM) Solution that will provide the shared capability needed to deliver a consistent, coordinated and personalised customer experience across GBR.
Emerging Scope
The proposed CERM solution encompasses the following key capability areas:
1. Customer Engagement & Marketing Communications
Design, manage and deliver coordinated customer engagement and marketing communications across digital channels and customer lifecycle stages.
2. Service & Journey Communications
Deliver timely, relevant rail service, journey and disruption-related communications before, during and after travel, across digital channels.
3. Customer Support & Case Management
Manage customer enquiries, complaints, support interactions and case resolution consistently across customer service channels.
4. Customer Data Activation & Personalisation
Consume, segment and activate customer data to support personalised engagement, communications and customer experiences.
5. Foundation Customer Data Services
Maintain, manage and make available a trusted and unified view of customer identity, profiles, consent, preferences and related customer data across customer engagement and support services and the wider ecosystem.
These capability areas represent the current high-level scope and may be refined following market engagement.
Purpose of Preliminary Market Engagement
DFTO would like to understand what COTS SaaS cover one or more (or all) of the requirements including approach to systems integration to provide a seamless experience to GBR customers and staff and indicative costs to support the development of procurement methodology and business case.
DFTO is contemplating utilising suitable framework agreements as a potential route to market.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 48310000, 48480000, 48600000, 48700000, 72227000, 72250000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/08/2027 to 31/07/2032
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F100032-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-10-22T13:38:43.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T08:43:06.266Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-078e07