Notice Information
Notice Title
Proc 645 Digital Interviewing
Notice Description
The Authority has undertaken this tender exercise to appoint suitably capable and experienced provider of a Digital Interviewing solution. It has utilised the Restricted Procedure, a multi-stage procurement process intended to short list qualified bidders, who where in turn invited to tender for the contract opportunity.
Lot Information
Lot 1
igital Interviewing is used by the Home Office Visas & Immigration Directorate to gather additional information to support a visa application or asylum claim. Interviews are currently carried out in-person and as remote interviews (via telephone or video links). Other areas of the Home Office also use interviewing to different extents. This notice relates specifically to delivering a continuous operational service for Asylum and V&C Operations from January 2022 to 2023. The core components of the project include: * Digital Audio Recording Software; Capture the audio from all participants whether they are present in the host room or joining remotely via MS Teams. It will allow control of the audio (e.g. pause) during the interview and will link to the Interview Record Forms software. * Interview Records Software: Capture typed information during the interview in relation to the interview including information about the interview, the participants and the questions, statements and response made during the interview. * Cloud Hosted Storage: The audio record and the interview record forms will be saved and stored to cloud-hosted storage on completion of the interview or, if offline, when later connected to the network * Management Information: The solution must provide reports of all digital interviews undertaken with filtering and sorting by all metadata data captured during interviewing and any automatically applied grouped by business area/team responsible. * RBAC: The solution shall have Role-based User Access Control which will allow specific user roles to be defined - each with a specific set of permissions within the system * Auto Transcription: Provision of automated transcripts from the recorded interview audio including all audio spoken during the interview in the English language only.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-02bf26
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008543-2022
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Restricted procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72232000 - Development of transaction processing and custom software
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £2,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,861,264 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 30 Mar 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 25 Jun 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 24 Dec 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
- HOME OFFICE
- Contact Name
- Ben Spencer, Zobair Mehmood
- Contact Email
- benjaminluke.spencer@homeoffice.gov.uk, zobair.mehmood@homeoffice.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CROYDON
- Postcode
- CR0 2EU
- Post Town
- Croydon
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI6 Outer London - South
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI62 Croydon
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Croydon
- Electoral Ward
- Fairfield
- Westminster Constituency
- Croydon West
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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