How to win: Replacement of Corporate Telephony and Contact Centre Environment

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Link Group, the Contracting Authority, is seeking to modernise its telephony and contact management environment as part of a wider customer experience transformation. The requirement is not limited to a like-for-like telephony replacement. Link is seeking to understand how the market can support a move from fragmented channels and siloed systems towards a single, integrated and insight-led contact management platform. The primary objective is to implement a modern, scalable, cloud-based Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) solution capable of supporting seamless multi-channel customer engagement across voice, live chat, messaging, social media and future digital channels. Link is particularly interested in solutions that can provide a single view of the customer, intelligent routing based on customer intent and need, real-time operational visibility, workforce engagement capability and data-driven insight across the end-to-end customer journey. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is issued solely to initiate a Preliminary Market Consultation exercise. The purpose is to test market capability, understand available delivery models, inform Link’s emerging specification and procurement

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