Notice Information
Notice Title
Contact Centre Services
Notice Description
The provision of Customer Services via telephony and potentially other communication channels, in addition they may provide the following: *management of customer contact through social media channels, secure messaging and chatbots *ad-hoc administration work to support account processing *additional blended work to support contact and repayments processing *outbound calling *web chat
Lot Information
Lot 1
The provision of Customer Services via telephony and potentially other communication channels. In addition they may provide the following: management of customer contact through social media channels, secure messaging and chat-bots; ad-hoc administration work to support account processing; additional blended work to support contact and repayments processing; outbound calling; web chat.
Options: Option to extend the contract for 2 periods of 12 months following the initial contract period
Procurement Information
The procurement exercise took the form of a mini-competition utilising an existing framework, RM3815 Contact Centre Services, put in place by Crown Commercial Services, this framework was awarded in compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-029ac9
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005036-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79342300 - Customer services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £204,300,000 £100M-£1B
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Feb 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 4 Mar 20214 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- STUDENT LOANS COMPANY
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- commercial@slc.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1413062000, +44 1413062109
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G2 7JD
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Govan
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow South West
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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