R&M171 Voice of the Customer - Market Engagement

The UK Health Security Agency wishes to explore the market, identify interest, and learn about best in class solutions from suitably qualified suppliers (or an optimal combination of suppliers) to develop and provide a Voice of the Customer programme. We're inviting initial expressions of interest and are intending to publish a Request for Information in the 1st week of Jan, which we encourage interested parties to complete. To support the development of our thinking and help to refine our requirements and shape our strategy for a potential competitive tender process we may choose to follow up on submitted RFI's with selected respondents and undertake some soft market testing. At this stage we are only undertaking preliminary market engagement. This will not be defined as negotiation and any future tender process will remain an open competitive process. These preliminary market consultations are being carried out under the provisions of Regulation 40 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102). Involvement in this soft market testing exercise will not preclude a participant from participating in any future tender process nor is it a pre-requirement for involvement in any forthcoming tender. Additional information: The VOTC programme is UKHSA’s continuous customer experience feedback programme. It is an essential tool in enabling us to monitor how customers feel about the service we provide, to spot issues and resolve them, to hold contractors to account, to understand customer experience, behaviours and the link between these, and to make improvements to our service based on research insight.