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plannedFind a Tender · planning
BuyerThe Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£5,000,000,000
Published19 Sept 2023

What is being bought

Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of outsourced contact centres and outsourced business services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies. The lotting structure of this framework will be determined as a result of the market engagement, but will include as a minimum… Lot 1 - Contact Centres Lot 2 - Business Process Services Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3.

Delivery location

UK · UK

Categories

Procurement software package 48490000Postal and telecommunications services 64000000Telecommunications services 64200000Accounting and auditing services 79210000Payroll management services 79211110Office-support services 79500000Telephone-answering services 79510000Call centre 79512000Supply services of personnel including temporary staff 79620000Other community, social and personal services 98000000Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 79000000

Lot details

Outsourced Contact Centres

The provision of full Contact Centre services, including the provision of skilled call handlers, project managers and full innovation and automation functionality provided through technology.

Statusplanned

Business Process Services

The provision of outsourced Business Process Services, including - as a minimum - Payroll, HR, Finance and Source-to-Pay services.

Statusplanned

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Procurement software package, Postal and telecommunications services, Telecommunications services, Accounting and auditing services, Payroll management services, Office-support services, Telephone-answering services, Call centre, Supply services of personnel including temporary staff, Other community, social and personal servicesNot published
2Procurement software package, Postal and telecommunications services, Telecommunications services, Accounting and auditing services, Payroll management services, Office-support services, Telephone-answering services, Call centre, Supply services of personnel including temporary staff, Other community, social and personal servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Procurement software package (48490000); 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 486,8361 median · 9.6 average (2,488 of 6,836 with a bid count)1.7 average (2,927 of 6,836 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2365 median · 72.5 average (4 of 23 with a bid count)3 average (4 of 23 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK1,8892 median · 22.6 average (612 of 1,889 with a bid count)3 average (732 of 1,889 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)20Not publishedNot publishedNot 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 byGPA
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.

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-0401f5
Latest release ID027631-2023
Latest release timestampTue Sep 19 2023 12:18:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
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 value£5,000,000,000
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source2
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
19 Sept 2023planning027631-2023

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 (1 releases)
19 Sept 2023 · 027631-2023 · planning
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