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# Pan London Out of Hours Telephony soft market testing

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pan-london-out-of-hours-telephony-soft-market-testing-ocds-h6vhtk-03ae66). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** London Borough of Ealing: "Pan London Out of Hours Telephony soft market testing". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £7,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [London Borough of Ealing](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/london-borough-of-ealing-council-ons-e09000009)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £7,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Dedicated-business telephone network services, IP telephone services, Market research services, Mobile-telephone services, Public-telephone services (+5 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03ae66`

## 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/pan-london-out-of-hours-telephony-soft-market-testing-ocds-h6vhtk-03ae66#tl-md)

## Description
This soft market testing exercise concerns the renewal of the innovative joint contract for the provision for out of hours telephony service.
The provision of a high quality out of hours call handling shared service is imperative for the current users of the joint service and equally important for any potential new joiners.
The current framework is hosted by the London Borough of Ealing and is used by Ealing, Barnet, Haringey, Barking and Dagenham, and Enfield.
As the Councils come to the end of a successful period of 7 years of working together (in the last of a series of contracts) they are looking to renew the arrangement and to offer the opportunity for other public bodies to join it.
In order to maximise the efficiency of the arrangement the new supplier may be required to undertake integration of the call centre service with the back-office function of each individual council.
All Councils and Housing Arm’s Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) nationally offer an out of hour’s service, some retain the service in-house whilst others have sub-let or work in partnerships with other organisations to provide a service.  The current Ealing- led Out of Hours Service is exceptional in that all transactions are auditable and fully computerised in the overall management of both telephone and data systems.  Some organisations may require an optional day time call handling service, however at present none of the participants have expressed a wish to utilise this option.
The Participating Organisations have joint ownership of a state of the art of telephony system which will be made available to the appointed supplier without charge.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 64211000, 64212000, 64213000, 64214000, 64214200, 64215000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** This is the pre- procurement soft market testing process

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F006460-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-03-06T14:23:58.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T03:51:23.765Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03ae66