Planning

Early Market Engagement Event for Insight and Research Exploration: solutions for capturing customer insights

MONEY AND PENSION SERVICE

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Planning

06 Mar 2025 at 16:56

Summary of the contracting process

The Money and Pension Service (MaPS), a public authority under the UK central government, is initiating an early market engagement event titled "Early Market Engagement Event for Insight and Research Exploration: solutions for capturing customer insights". This procurement in the services industry focuses on evaluating consultancy services aimed at enhancing customer insights and satisfaction. The initial engagement event is scheduled for 25 March 2025, with a follow-up on 30 June 2025. Potential suppliers are required to understand both real-time operational improvements and longer-term strategic insights. The initial contract period is from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2028, with the possibility of an extension till 2030. The total estimated value of this project is £3,600,000.

This tender aims to create opportunities for businesses specializing in customer experience management, data analytics, and research consultancy. Companies with innovative solutions for real-time feedback mechanisms, comprehensive customer impact analyses, and strong capabilities in data integration and predictive analytics will find this project highly suitable. Small or medium enterprises with expertise in delivering user-friendly and interactive data visualisations and those able to offer flexible feedback solutions catering to emerging business needs will be well-suited to compete. The opportunity is geared towards suppliers capable of providing a holistic approach to capturing and managing customer insights effectively.

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Notice Title

Early Market Engagement Event for Insight and Research Exploration: solutions for capturing customer insights

Notice Description

Money and Pensions Service The Money and Pensions Service; MaPS is an arm's-length body, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, with a joint commitment to ensuring that people throughout the UK have guidance and access to the information they need to make effective financial decisions over their lifetime. We are running an early market engagement event aimed at understanding the market's capabilities and exploring innovative solutions for capturing and analysing customer insights. This event is intended to inform the procurement process on the possibility of an insight and research supplier that can serve the needs of two distinct purposes within MaPS. Event Purpose: The purpose of this engagement is to: Gain an understanding of the market's capabilities, particularly around real-time operational improvement insights and longer-term outcome research and strategic insights. Explore innovative methods for capturing and analysing real-time customer and colleague insights. Explore combination research opportunities across complex advice and guidance services. Understand suppliers' capabilities to deliver a unified approach to meet the needs of two teams with distinct perspectives, either as a single supplier or as a consortium. Inform our procurement approach to engaging one or more suppliers The two workstreams: Customer Experience & Quality (CX&Q) Insights: Focus: Managing real-time customer satisfaction and interaction outcomes. High-Level Objective: Enhance customer journeys and improve the quality of the service and customer experience by driving short and medium-term continuous improvement. Key Requirements: Ensuring our feedback mechanisms are suitable for understanding internal & Customer experience Ensure any mechanisms can be deployed via and gain insight omni-channel interactions and digital tools. Enabling feedback closer to the interaction with MaPS' services Enabling regular and timely reporting Ensuring feedback mechanisms enable us to manage feedback and action loops Flexibility to adjust feedback mechanisms to meet emerging business needs Exploring emerging methods to maximise engagement and ensure accessibility for internal and external stakeholders and customers Customer impact and strategic insights : Focus: Deliver a holistic picture of the customers we are serving including their needs, circumstances and financial wellbeing outcomes achieved. High-Level Objective: Identify the gap between our desired impact and our delivered impact and identifying which customer needs can be better met to close that gap. Key needs: Robust, theory-based research approach drawing on existing MaPS research tools Delivery of ongoing surveying and periodic qualitative research with MaPS customers. Ability to link data from multiple sources (inc. primary research and administrative data) to maximise insight Strong analytical capabilities including key drivers' analysis, predictive analytics and natural language processing. Intuitive, user-friendly and interactive reporting using data visualisation tools

Planning Information

we will be holding an initial engagement event on the 25/03/2025 to understanding the market's capabilities and exploring innovative solutions for capturing and analysing customer insights. This event is intended to inform the procurement process on the possibility of an insight and research supplier that can serve the needs of two distinct purposes within MaPS. The intension is to hold further events dependant on feedback following this initial event. To register an interest in this event please follow this link https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4fbb5a6c-b22b-4ce3-8c21-f590e6294d5e@bbe41032-8fce-4d42-bab5-44e21510886d

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ea48
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008267-2025
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security


CPV Codes

79419000 - Evaluation consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£3,000,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
6 Mar 202511 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
14 Jul 2025Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
30 Sep 2025 - 30 Sep 2028 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
MONEY AND PENSION SERVICE
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
nicholas.cole@maps.org.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
BEDFORD
Postcode
MK42 9AB
Post Town
Milton Keynes
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLH East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLH24 Bedford
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Bedford
Electoral Ward
Cauldwell
Westminster Constituency
Bedford

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