Contact Centre Market Engagement

The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP’s) existing contact centre is the largest across all UK government departments and is one of the largest contact centres in Europe, with more than 33,000 advisors (c.17,000 concurrent) in circa 200 locations and handling approximately 90 million calls per annum. The contact centre platform is delivered on behalf of DWP by a managed service provider. DWP is currently evaluating options for how to continue delivering services beyond the expiry of the current contract. DWP is therefore undertaking a market engagement exercise to gather insights from suppliers to help inform its future contact centre strategy. The market engagement activity will consist of an initial webinar session hosted by DWP alongside issuing various Request for Information (RFI) documents to gather specific insights on key solution areas and options.