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title: "Provision of a Contact Centre as a Service"
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# Provision of a Contact Centre as a Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-a-contact-centre-as-a-service-ocds-h6vhtk-030f29). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Guinness Partnership: "Provision of a Contact Centre as a Service". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [The Guinness Partnership](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-guinness-partnership-rsh-4729)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Telecommunications equipment and supplies, Telecommunications services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-030f29`

## 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/provision-of-a-contact-centre-as-a-service-ocds-h6vhtk-030f29#tl-md)

## Description
Guinness is looking to replace its current Customer Contact Centre capabilities and contract with a partner to provide a Managed Service.
As a precursor to commencing a procurement process we are issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a soft market testing exercise to enable Guinness to gain a better understanding of the providers in the market and their technical capabilities. We are looking for organisations to provide us with an outline of their offering with reference to our requirements in the market engagement brief. It is not mandatory to respond and equally, information submitted will not be evaluated or count towards the future tender process.
Responses to the market engagement exercise should be submitted via the address stated in I.3 of this notice by 4pm on Tuesday 22nd February.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 32500000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK

- **Description:** Guinness is looking to replace its Customer Contact Centre capabilities and contract with a partner to provide a Managed Service. CCaaS services will include but not be limited to the below aspects:
•	Omni channel capabilities
•	Multiple, segmented C...

- **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%2F002207-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-01-25T16:42:17.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T15:07:00.811Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-030f29