# 007734 - Customer and Debtor Automated Engagement Platform

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Newcastle City Council](/buyers/newcastle-city-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [VOICESCAPE LIMITED](/contract-winners/voicescape/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £249,000
- Tender value: £210,000
- Award date: 1 July 2022
- Published: 5 July 2022
- Contract start: 5 July 2022
- Contract end: 4 July 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c5cff43d-7f0e-4dd1-8721-6426fcbec0dd-552095
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-216c167a-c51c-4da6-9fb7-9b93d5364fc3

## Description

Newcastle City Council \(NCC\) has a requirement for a Customer and Debtor Automated Engagement Platform, that utilises artificial intelligence and machine learning in order to successfully and efficiently contact customers and debtors with automated voice, text and email, with a primary focus of, but not exclusive to council tax\. The successful tenderer will need to support Newcastle City Council with the use of behaviour science, drawing from their own knowledge and experience\. This solution will enable NCC to engage and recover debt more efficiently and effectively, highlighting and reviewing successful and unsuccessful campaigns utilising behavioural science to refine and improve iteratively, with the ultimate-aim of increasing collection from 97%\. NCC's detailed requirements are defined in full in the contract documents which can be found https://www\.nepo\.org/\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c5cff43d-7f0e-4dd1-8721-6426fcbec0dd-552095)