Kent County Council is inviting IT services companies and BPO specialists to bid for places on a £500m framework agreement set to offer a range of outsourcing services to the English public authority.
In a contract notice published this week, the council put them market on notice to bid to be part of the cool half-billion deal, in the hope suppliers can “improve efficiency, provide an agile and reliable solution that will transform and meet [the council’s] business objectives.”
The Framework Agreement for Managed Services is set to see “the outsourcing [of] day-to-day management responsibilities and functions as a strategic method for transforming and improving business processes, through efficiencies, effectiveness and cutting operating costs,” the notice said.
Categories listed on the official document include office and computing machinery, software package and information systems, and IT services such as consulting, software development, and support. It also lists business services such as law,…
