Notice Information
Notice Title
Telephony & Call Centre Service
Notice Description
The Ombudsman is inviting tenders for the provision of Telephony and call centre services tailored to the needs of the office.The focus of the service will be to provide a telephony service that:* is easy to navigate for PSOW service users who call us via our telephone lines to enable them to be connected to the relevant PSOW member of staff in a timely manner.* is of good audio quality and is reliable and stable regarding connection.* enables PSOW staff to answer calls via a PC softphone system irrespective of whether they are working in PSOW office or working at Home.* has good management data reporting* has call centre functionality to enable calls to be directed to appropriate call Queues, and for those calls to be fairly distributed to front line call handlers.Current set upMost staff work in a hybrid manner mainly working from home, but also working from our offices in Pencoed Bridgend on a semi-regular basis.We have approximately 75 staff each with their own direct dial line extension number.The PSOW receives telephone calls from various service users either* direct to a case officer or other member of staff via a direct dial number, or* by calling our main line telephone line which is then routed via a call centre application to nominated call centre staff.We currently have the following average call volumes per week:* 100 x Inbound calls to front line telephony staff via the main Queues* 200 x Inbound calls to direct line extensions* 200 x Outbound callsThe PSOW call centre application is currently via an on-premise server.Call centre staff have dedicated SIP telephones both at home and at PSOW offices in Pencoed. All other staff have dedicated handsets at PSOW office only, but calls are routed via a fully softphone online service (Circuit) when they are working from home.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-kuma6s-126064
- Publication Source
- Sell2Wales
- Latest Notice
- https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=126064
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- S2W Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
-
- CPV Codes
32412100 - Telecommunications network
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 24 Nov 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 11 Nov 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 24 Nov 20223 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Not Specified
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN FOR WALES
- Contact Name
- John Young
- Contact Email
- john.young@ombudsman.wales
- Contact Phone
- +44 1656641156
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRIDGEND
- Postcode
- CF35 5LJ
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL51 Central Valleys and Bridgend
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Bridgend
- Electoral Ward
- Pencoed and Penprysg
- Westminster Constituency
- Bridgend
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=OCT416522&idx=3
8th November 2022 - PSOW Queue messages and routing -
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=OCT416522&idx=1
28th October 2022 - Tender Document -
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=OCT416522&idx=2
28th October 2022 - Gwahoddiad i Dendro ar gyfer -Gwasanaethau Teleffoni a Chanolfan Alwadau
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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