Published date: 21 March 2022

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 15 March 2022, 1pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

HCA001-DN599412-25444664

Published date

21 March 2022

Closing date

15 March 2022

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

17 April 2022

Contract end date

28 April 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Homes England has identified the need for a Content and Accessibility capability to be stood up, embed standards and practices so that Homes England GOV.UK published content is aligned to GDS standards and is accessibility regulations compliant.\r
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Deliver Content and Accessibility outcomes based deliverables to enable Homes England to stand up and transition to a permanent FTE content team. Deliverables:\r
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• Design permanent content and accessibility team and assist with recruitment activities. Help with onboarding of new permanent staff.\r
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• Improve accessibility compliance of HE Wordpress intranet site.\r
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• Audit of existing content publishing and accessibility processes and ways of working, identifying areas for improvement.\r
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• Develop content and accessibility community of practice and build content and accessibility awareness in Homes England.\r
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• Devise and implement GOV.UK content maintenance plan. If useful identify discrete content areas to use as pilots.\r
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• GOV.UK content audit to identify opportunities to remove legacy content and identify content owners for live content.\r
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• Search visibility performance report for HE GOV.UK content, highlighting opportunities to boost search ranking and implement.\r
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• Create training materials relating to working with the content team, introduction to content design and deliver these trainings.\r
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• Document all activities for knowledge base for permanent team.

Award information

Awarded date

21 March 2022

Contract start date

17 April 2022

Contract end date

28 April 2023

Total value of contract

£500,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Scroll LLP

Address

SW2 2QP

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Barry Stoker

Address

The Lumen
St James Boulevard, Newcastle Helix
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5BZ
England

Email

barry.stoker@homesengland.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england