Residential Digital Front Door Platform

Lancashire County CouncilcontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-0501f3Procurement Act 2023SME suitablepending
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Estimated value

Awarded value

Awarded 05 Aug 2025

Suppliers

1

1 SME

Lots

1

1 awarded

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 2029
Possible 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.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Compliance with statement of requirementsRefer 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 TechnicalRefer 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
PriceRefer 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 valueRefer 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

Award date

05 Aug 2025

Contract start

31 Aug 2025

Contract end

31 Mar 2029

Awarded to