Published date: 18 September 2018

This notice was replaced on 29 January 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 29 January 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Data equipment - 32580000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£54,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS PS18187

Published date

18 September 2018

Closing date

10 October 2018

Contract start date

29 October 2018

Contract end date

28 October 2019

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

3. Description

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Wednesday 10 / 10 / 2018 at 14:00

DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

Brief Description of Requirement

A focus for Acas in recent years has been to increase the size of its owned and 'opted in' database by inviting new contacts to subscribe to ongoing Acas communications. We register these new contacts via our own online subscription form. Upon completion, this form feeds new contact details (including names, job title, org address, phone and email) into our database.
We have been achieving over 45,000 new subscribers into our database each year. We encourage people to subscribe to Acas communications through our website and via contact cards we use at face to face meetings. We also add in the region of 15,000 to 20,000 new contacts each year through sending subscription invitations to high-volume lists of rented contacts.
To date the Acas database has approximately 300,000 contacts, of whom around 170,000 are opted-in to receive ongoing email communications from Acas.

An overview of key requirements for this project
 To procure contact details for potential customers / new contacts, who are not already on the Acas customer database, and to hold these in a suitable database.
 To undertake or support the sending of national and regional emails to these contacts, the purpose of which will be to advertise Acas products and services and will include encouragement for them to agree to be added to Acas own subscriber list.

For further details, please see the attached documents.

Please ensure you review all attached information to ensure a full understanding of this requirement. All attachments can be found with the RFx attachments tab within the Emptoris System.

This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the ITQ document.

How to Apply

As part of the strategic alliance between UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), UK SBS will be using the CCS eSourcing Suite for this procurement.

To register on the CCS eSourcing portal please follow the details contained within the Additional Information section of this notice.

If you are already registered on the CCS eSourcing portal and wish to register your interest in this opportunity please email; expressionofinterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Your email must clearly state:
• the name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for;
• the name of the registered Bidder;
• the name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email.

Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authorities control.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

IT Procurement

Address

Polaris House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793 86 7005

Email

ictprocurement@uksbs.co.uk