Framework Agreement for Hybrid Mail and Annual Billing
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Cannock Chase District and Stafford Borough Councils are shire districts within the County of Staffordshire. The Councils have shared a number of services since 2011, including Revenues and Benefits, Finance; ICT, Building Control, Legal Services and Human Resources. From April 2023, the two Councils now share a Chief Executive, Leadership Team and all services excluding those funded by the Housing Revenue Account. The Councils operate a Hybrid Working Model, whereby most staff split their working time between home and office bases. Some remote work is undertaken by visiting officers from customers' homes or places of work. Having trialled a Hybrid Mail solution within the shared Revenues and Benefits service, the Councils now seek a long-term provider of this service and so provides this opportunity for suitable providers to tender for either or both of the two Lots. Lot 1: Hybrid Mail Includes the provision of 'print-ready' output by the Council to the provider. Some merging of multiple documents to a single customer will be needed and some non-personalised enclosures will be required for some documents. All paper documents will be issued in envelopes marked "Private and Confidential - Addressee Only". Options to issue correspondence in alternative formats, such as email or SMS are also required. The provider must be able to demonstrate compatibility with documents produced by the Civica Open Revenues processing software and Civica Workflow 360 system. The provider shall provide appropriate cloud hosted software to operate and administer the Hybrid Mail Offsite Solution. Any software will need to be fully compatible with the Windows 10 operating system on both 32-bit and 64-bit devices; the software must also be compatible with the Office 365 suite. Any web-enabled software will need to be fully compatible with Microsoft Edge The solution shall provide a hierarchical structure for user accounts. The solution may be used by a number of different departments within the Councils, each with their own users and managers, as well as administrators for the solution as a whole. The user account structure must reflect this setup. Lot 2: Annual Billing Includes the printing and distribution of the annual Council Tax Bills, Benefit Notifications and Discount Review letters on behalf of both Councils. Data will be provided partly as data files to be interpreted and partly in print-ready format. Merging of multiple documents to a single customer will be needed and some non-personalised enclosures will be required for some documents. All paper documents will be issued in envelopes marked "Private and Confidential - Addressee Only". No alternative, electronic distribution of annual bills is needed from the provider. The Councils will provide a 4-year Framework Agreement for the printing and distribution of outgoing Annual Council Tax and Business Rates bills and accompanying literature, each March. The Councils offer no guarantee of exclusivity to the selected providers and cannot guarantee a minimum number of documents that will require distribution. The Councils' continuing priority is to encourage communication by electronic means in order to reduce the amount of hard-copy post. Wherever possible the Councils require multiple documents, relating to the same customer, to be included in a single envelope. The provider shall provide a method for secure transfer of mail data between the Councils and the provider. This method must include 256bit RSA encryption. This data will then be transformed by the provider into a physical mail item for delivery to a customer address. The Councils will provide Council Tax bill data in a flat file produced from the Civica OpenRevenues system, mapping documentation will be provided. Lot 1: Hybrid Mail Includes the provision of 'print-ready' output by the Council to the provider. Some merging of multiple documents to a single customer will be needed and some non-personalised enclosures will be required for some documents. All paper documents will be issued in envelopes marked "Private and Confidential - Addressee Only". Options to issue correspondence in alternative formats, such as email or SMS are also required. The provider must be able to demonstrate compatibility with documents produced by the Civica Open Revenues processing software and Civica Workflow 360 system. The provider shall provide appropriate cloud hosted software to operate and administer the Hybrid Mail Offsite Solution. Any software will need to be fully compatible with the Windows 10 operating system on both 32-bit and 64-bit devices; the software must also be compatible with the Office 365 suite. Any web-enabled software will need to be fully compatible with Microsoft Edge The solution shall provide a hierarchical structure for user accounts. The solution may be used by a number of different departments within the Councils, each with their own users and managers, as well as administrators for the solution as a whole. The user account structure must reflect this setup. Lot 2: Annual Billing Includes the printing and distribution of the annual Council Tax Bills, Benefit Notifications and Discount Review letters on behalf of both Councils. Data will be provided partly as data files to be interpreted and partly in print-ready format. Merging of multiple documents to a single customer will be needed and some non-personalised enclosures will be required for some documents. All paper documents will be issued in envelopes marked "Private and Confidential - Addressee Only". No alternative, electronic distribution of annual bills is needed from the provider. The Councils will provide a 4-year Framework Agreement for the printing and distribution of outgoing Annual Council Tax and Business Rates bills and accompanying literature, each March. The Councils offer no guarantee of exclusivity to the selected providers and cannot guarantee a minimum number of documents that will require distribution. The Councils' continuing priority is to encourage communication by electronic means in order to reduce the amount of hard-copy post. Wherever possible the Councils require multiple documents, relating to the same customer, to be included in a single envelope. The provider shall provide a method for secure transfer of mail data between the Councils and the provider. This method must include 256bit RSA encryption. This data will then be transformed by the provider into a physical mail item for delivery to a customer address. The Councils will provide Council Tax bill data in a flat file produced from the Civica OpenRevenues system, mapping documentation will be provided.
Timeline
Publish date
7 months ago
Close date
6 months ago
Buyer information
Cannock Chase District Council
- Contact:
- Laura Kendall
- Email:
- laura.kendall@staffordshire.gov.uk
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