UK SBS PS18187 Data Rental

Description The final date and time for the submission of bids is Wednesday 10 / 10 / 2018 at 14:00 DO NOT apply directly to the buyer. All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

Brief Description of Requirement A focus for Acas in recent years has been to increase the size of its owned and 'opted in' database by inviting new contacts to subscribe to ongoing Acas communications. We register these new contacts via our own online subscription form.

We have been achieving over 45,000 new subscribers into our database each year. We encourage people to subscribe to Acas communications through our website and via contact cards we use at face to face meetings.

We also add in the region of 15,000 to 20,000 new contacts each year through sending subscription invitations to high-volume lists of rented contacts. To date the Acas database has approximately 300,000 contacts, of whom around 170,000 are opted-in to receive ongoing email communications from Acas.

An overview of key requirements for this project  To procure contact details for potential customers / new contacts, who are not already on the Acas customer database, and to hold these in a suitable database.  To undertake or support the sending of national and regional emails to these contacts, the purpose of which will be to advertise Acas products and services and will include encouragement for them to agree to be added to Acas own subscriber list. For further details, please see the attached documents.

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This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the ITQ document. How to Apply As part of the strategic alliance between UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), UK SBS will be using the CCS eSourcing Suite for this procurement.

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