Residential Digital Front Door Platform
Estimated value
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Awarded value
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Suppliers
1
Lots
1
Published
06 Aug 2025
Description
A digital front door platform is designed to streamline and enhance the way residents and businesses interact with services that the Authority provides. The future platform will deliver the following strategic ambitions: • Easy, seamless experience whether engaging by phone, face to face, social media, AI chat or via a range of resident facing applications and forms. • Mobile friendly, easy access to advice, information, and support about our services at a time to suit our residents. • Opportunities to feedback about their digital journey and the design of our resident facing services. • An automated telephone payment system which allows users to make payments over the phone or online without needing to speak to an agent. • Receive a consistently effective digital service without having to tell us more than once. • Ability to capture nondigital interactions where residents have chosen to use nondigital routes. • Real time access to updates about a service request • Promotes an inclusive digital service. • Accessibility is embedded into the fabric of our solution so that residents with additional needs can engage with us digitally. • Seamless signposting to the wider local government community without having to understand the difference between county, district, or parish level services. • Ability to communicate in a non-English first language. • An effective, timely and empathic response to an enquiry or service request • Assurance that information we hold is safe and secure
Scope
- Reference
- JB/ICT/LCC/25/1917
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 31 Aug 2025 to 31 Mar 2029Possible extension to 31 Mar 2036
The initial Contract period will be three (3) years and six (6) months, after such time the Authority may extend the Contract by any number of defined periods stipulated by the Authority pursuant to the Contract, provided that the total duration of the Contract Term does not exceed ten (10) years and six (6) months.
- CPV classifications
- 48000000
- Contract locations
- North West England, United Kingdom
- Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance with statement of requirements | Refer to section 5.3 of the ITT for further details. This criteria is pass/fail. Tenderer confirms their solution can meet all "must have" (mandatory) requirements as detailed in Appendix B - Statement of Requirements, before Tender award. The highest ranked Tenderer will be invited to demonstrate their solution meet's all "must have" (mandatory) requirements prior to award. | quality | — |
| Quality and Technical | Refer to section 5.4 of the ITT for further details on the evaluation methodology and sub-criteria. This criteria is 60% of the total award criteria. | quality | — |
| Price | Refer to section 5.5 of the ITT for further details on the evaluation methodology and sub-criteria. This criteria is 30% of the total award criteria. | cost | — |
| Social value | Refer to section 5.6 of the ITT for further details on the evaluation methodology and sub-criteria. This criteria is 10% of the total award criteria. | quality | — |
Participation
Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.
Refer to paragraph 5.2 (Stage 1: PSQ Selection Criteria) of the ITT for the legal and financial capacity conditions of participation.
Refer to paragraph 5.2 (Stage 1: PSQ Selection Criteria) of the ITT for the technical ability conditions of participation.
Submission & procedure
- Procedure
- Competitive flexible procedure
Award details
Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.
Awarded value
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Award date
05 Aug 2025
Contract start
31 Aug 2025
Contract end
31 Mar 2029