Digital Experience and Digital Enablement

Concepts

• computer support
• national savings and investments
• digital experience
• digital self-service experiences
• digital enablement package
• digital enablement
• digital support
• customer experience
• future delivery of digital experience services
• ns&i’s rainbow programme

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

The Digital Experience and Digital Enablement package is the second procurement package in NS&I’s Rainbow programme, and provides the capabilities needed to deliver digital self-service experiences and journeys to NS&I’s retail banking customers, and to enable Assisted Digital support. It will deliver these services to mobile app, website and voice assistant channels.

Total Quantity or Scope

National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is one of the UK's largest retail savings organisations with 25 million customers, more than £202 billion funds under management, best known for Premium Bonds but also offering a range of savings products. NS&I raises financing for Government, by offering secure retail financial savings products, as an alternative to raising funds on the wholesale market. NS&I's core services are currently provided by Atos IT Services UK Limited, which manages sales processing and customer servicing, and IT and infrastructure services. This contract will end on 31st March 2024. NS&I has started a significant transformation of its outsourced services, called the Rainbow Programme. The second procurement in NS&I’s Rainbow Programme, the Digital Experience and Digital Enablement package, will provide capabilities in digital self-service experiences and journeys for NS&I’s customers and enable Assisted Digital support. This includes as a minimum the delivery of a mobile banking app (to include prize draw functionality) and a fully functional transactional website. The new service will create journeys and experiences designed to support customers achieve their Jobs to be Done, reduce customer effort and improve customer experience. NS&I has transitioned from branch-based banking to our current state as a direct-only business with digital, post and phone channels. This package is intended to bring us to the endpoint of that trajectory, transitioning to a digital first, self-service retail bank, with Assisted Digital support for customers unable to self-serve. That endpoint will meet customer expectations for effective, digital self-service, and deliver cost-effective operational excellence. NS&I provides services to other government departments via B2B offer, called Government Payment Services (GPS). NS&I GPS offers modern, secure and competitive banking and payments services to all government departments, agencies and public sector organisations. Current B2B services include Help to Buy, Help to Save, 30 Hours of Childcare, Tax Free Childcare and Court Funds Office. There is potential for B2B services to expand during the contract lifetime that could result in growth of the outsourced services NS&I may be required to support the delivery of. This procurement is intended to allow for future delivery of digital experience services to support NS&I GPS activities. The total estimated value in section II.2.6 is £172m. Of this, £111.5m is in relation to the initial term for the retail opportunity, and £32.5m in respect of a possible two (2) year discretionary extension. This £32.5m is subject to further spend control approval. The remaining £28m is the estimated value for supporting B2B services for both the initial term and any discretionary extension period. B2B and any extensions will be subject to further Cabinet Office spend control approval. Additional information: The Authority reserves the right not to award the opportunity or to award only part (or a different arrangement) of the opportunity described in this contract notice. The Proposed Contract will be procured using the competitive procedure with negotiation (CPN) as set out in Regulation 29 of the PCR 2015 which provides a structure for this competitive tendering exercise.

Renewal Options

Subject to a discretionary extension of up to two (2) years, subject to Cabinet Office spend control approval.

CPV Codes

• 72600000 - Computer support and consultancy services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Bidders should note that the procurement documents (including the Invitation to Negotiate) are draft documents at this stage, providing indicative information of the Authority's intended approach in the procurement process and are for general information only. The Authority reserves the right to vary, amend and update any aspects of the procurement documents and final details and versions of the procurement documents will be confirmed to applicants successful in being selected to participate in the relevant tender stages of the procurement procedure. Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the Standard Selection Questionnaire (in accordance with the requirements set out in the Standard Selection Questionnaire) by the date and time specified in Instructions to Candidates and Bidders . The Authority reserves the right not to accept requests to participate that are received after the deadline. Candidates are encouraged to submit their submissions well in advance of the stated date and time in order to avoid issues such as technical difficulties with the electronic system that may be due to the high volumes of traffic attempting to submit applications on the same date at the same time.