Request For Proposal - National Contact Center Implementation
Request For Proposal - National Contact Center Implementation
Request For Proposal - National Contact Center Implementation
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION
AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................... 2
1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 4
1.1 RFP PURPOSE ...............................................................................................................................................4
1.2 RFP ORGANIZATION ...................................................................................................................................5
2. Project Definition and Overall Solution Desciption ................................... 6
2.1 THE NATIONAL CONTACT CENTER SOLUTION DESCRIPTION ....................................................................6
2.2 SERVICES MATURITY OFFERING ................................................................................................................7
2.3 SUPPORTED ENTITIES, ITS SERVICES DESCRIPTION, PROCESSES, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
INFORMATION: ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
3. SCOPE OF THE PROJECT: .................................................................... 21
3.1 COMPONENT 1 – CONTACT CENTER STANDARDS AND GUILELINES DESIGNAND BUILD SERVICES ................21
3.1.1 Background and Proposed winning bidder's activities ........................................................................21
3.1.1.1 Build Existing services. .................................................................................... 21
3.1.1.2 Design and Build New services. ....................................................................... 21
3.1.1.3 Project Mangment Activites for Adding New Entites : .................................... 22
3.1.2 Technical Proposal Requirements ......................................................................................................26
3.1.3 Financial proposal requirements .........................................................................................................27
3.1.4 Deliverables ............................................................................................................................................28
3.2 COMPONENT 2 – OPERATIONS OUTSOURCING SERVICES .............................................................................29
3.2.1 Background and Proposed winning bidder's activities. ...............................................................29
3.2.1.1 Operational and Administrative Relationship ....................................................... 29
3.2.1.2 Workload Forecast ................................................................................................ 31
PLEASE REFER TO ANNEX 5.10 ..............................................................................................................................31
3.2.1.3 Operations Opening Hours ................................................................................... 32
3.2.1.4 Key Performance Indicators ................................................................................. 32
3.2.1.5 Penalties and Remuneration Matrix ...................................................................... 34
3.2.2 Technical proposal requirements. ..................................................................................................34
3.2.2.1 Organization .......................................................................................................... 34
3.2.2.2 HR, Training and Workforce Management .......................................................... 35
3.2.2.3 Quality Management ............................................................................................. 36
3.2.2.4 Workload Forecast ................................................................................................ 37
3.2.2.5 Data, Information and Knowledge Management .................................................. 37
3.2.2.6 Reporting and Continuous Improvements ............................................................ 37
3.2.2.7 Miscellaneous ....................................................................................................... 38
3.2.3 Financial proposal requirements .........................................................................................................38
3.2.4 Deliverables ............................................................................................................................................40
3.3 COMPONENT 3 – TECHNOLOGY AND INTEGRATION REQUIREMENTS. ....................................................41
3.3.1 Background and Proposed Winning Bidder's activities. ..............................................................41
3.3.2 Technical proposal requirements. ..................................................................................................41
3.3.3 Financial proposal requirements. ....................................................................................................43
3.3.4 Deliverables. ......................................................................................................................................43
4. ADMINISTRATIVEPROCEDURESAND REQUIREMENTS.............. 44
4.1 RESPONSE PROCEDURE .........................................................................................................................44
4.2 RESPONSE FORMAT ..................................................................................................................................44
4.3 RESPONSE SUBMISSION ..........................................................................................................................45
4.4 RESPONSE EVALUATION ..........................................................................................................................46
4.5 FINANCIAL TERMS ......................................................................................................................................47
4.6 LEGAL TERMS ..............................................................................................................................................48
4.7 CONFLICT OF INTEREST ...........................................................................................................................51
The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT) is soliciting proposals from
local qualified bidders (non-Telecom Operators) to outsource the operations of the National Contact
Center of the Government of Jordan– hereafter referred to as the Project, and to migrate all the
functionalities of the of the National Contact Center later on to the MoICT contact center
infrastructure once it becomes available. Qualified local bidders should be operating locally inside the
premises of the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan.
The major project objectives are to enhance the experience with and the image of the government and
become customer oriented. The National Contact Center is expected to transform stakeholders‟
experience while interacting with the government, reduce time to access and deliver government
services, simplify processes and procedures necessary to render the government services by:
• Offering a simple and clear point of access.
• Improving the consistency and quality of contact center services.
• Providing support and answers to inquiries about government services through convenient
and available channel (The phone, e-mail and SMS).
• Offering support for the Government Entities‟ e-Services.
• Eliminating or reducing form-filling and lengthy waits for replies.
• Obtaining immediate answers to questions because information and citizen history are
available to Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and have strong connections with the
relevant government entities.
• Eliminating the need to travel to access a face-to-face service.
• Offering a convenient time for interaction, such as evenings and weekends.
• Organize the way the government provides support for its services.
The National Contact Center through this project should provide customer service for the existing
government entities and any government entities request services and e-Services as well as support
the e-Government Shared services (ex : e-Government Portal, SMS Services, and GSB etc)
MoICT seek a bidder capable of providing Contact Center Operations and Technology Outsourcing
Services, Design and Build Services, and comprehensive implementation framework together with
strong management and leadership skills.
The winning bidder will be responsible to transfer the know how and successful delivery of the
project within specified timeframe highlighted in the scope of work. The project has to be managed
effectively and efficiently in order to achieve the desired goals and requirements.
Also, MoICT is planning to build its own NCC infrastructure, and it might be completed during the
course of this project implementation, for that, the winning bidder will be responsible to migrate data
any related current contact center components owned by MoICT new contact center infrastructure
once it is ready, and the winning bidder will be asked to utilizae MoICT infrastruce without any
disruption for the services.
This RFP provides the information to enable bidders to submit written proposals for the sought
solution. The organization of the RFP is as follows:
Section 1: Introduction
This section outlines the RFP‟s purpose and its organization.
Section 2: Project Definition and Overall Solution Description
This section provides general definition of the service and high level description of the solution to be
implemented.
Section 3: Scope of the Project
This section defines scope of work, proposal requirements and deliverables for the Project .
Section 4: Administrative Procedures and Requirements
This section describes the administrative rules and procedures that guide the proposal and its
processes.
Section 5: Annexes
This section includes all annexes to the RFP.
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The development of the National Contact Center enterprise solution will encompass three
main Components as demonstrated in the graph
below:
Government Customers
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The winning bidder should be committed to migrate to the e-government Contact center infrastructure
at any time during the contract, ensuring the the operations is run and business as usual .
The Government will use the winning bidder consulting services to lead the development of
government-wide standards and guidelines of good CC practices, such as:
Related Services Processes mapping and development.
Training portfolio.
Script development.
Contact Center Service delivery KPI‟s.
The development of standard Contact Center Operational Procedures and experience.
The government will provide all the informationneeded to rebuild the current services (procedures,
scripts, QA …etc), so the winning bidder need to reuse the current information and knowledge to
provide the current services through their NCC.
The required support for the Services and e-Services may vary depending on the maturity level listed
in table 2.2.1. The scope of contact center service and support described in Figure 2.2.1 identifies an
evolving scope of support, from informationalto transactional.
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The Government needed support through this engagement is limited to maturity levels 2, 3, and 4
listed in table 2.2.1 below and to be prepared and ready for maturity level 5 by the end of this contract.
The winning bidder must provide the necessary operational and technological requirements to
accommodate for this anticipated growth. The offered support maturity level should be based on the
readiness of the Government entities.
The winning bidder and MoICT will be needed to determine and assess the level of support suitable
for each entity based on the entities readiness (in terms of processes, technology and integration
requirements)
The time for completing this contract will be 730 days as of the date of the Order to Proceed.
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The winning bidder should be able todeliver the requirements described below under maturity levels2,
3, and 4 to fulfill the support requirements mentioned in the table above:
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There are three types of services that need to be supported by the National Contact Center related to
current and new :
1- government entities related Services.
2- government entities related e-Services
a.Vertical e-Services
b.Cross-Governmental e-Services .
3- e-Government Shared Services
The table 2.3.1 below demonstrates the number and list of the current Services/e-Services/Shared
Services to be supported as well as information related to their processes, systems and infrastructure.
The winning bidder shall provide informational, interactional and transactional support to these
services which will require a very good understanding of the business of each government entity and
the associated Services/e-Service/Shared Services processes and procedures.
The National Contact Center (outsourced to the winning bidder) is expected to help customers with
regards to:
Technical questions (how to resolve technical difficulties); and
Business informational questions (how to complete the e-forms, application related processes
and procedures, guiding the use of e-Services, reassuring the proper closing of a customer
case.)
Business interactional questions (what is my property tax, is my application approved,where
my application is, is my payment delivered, when I will be receiving your confirmation.)
Business Transactional questions (fill my subsidy application, fill my application to Hajj…)
Some e-Services might be cross-organizational e-services (i.e. services that require the involvement of
several government entities to be delivered). Customers might find difficulties using them. Questions
regarding usability, privacy, payment, transactions‟ status and other might arise before, during and
after using the applications. The National Contact Center (Outsourced to the winning bidder) needs to
help the cross-organizational e-services customers, reduce complexities, and provide them with one
contact point that support a process crossing multiple government entities.
The National Contact Center (outsourced to the winning bidder) will play an important role between
the customers, the e-Service/Services/Shared Services applications team/vendor, and the Government
Entities. The winning bidder in coordination with the applications team should determine:
How will customer-related information flow from one entity / application to the other?
How will service-related information flow from one entity / application to the other?
This will need a very a strong and governed relationship between the contact center winning bidder,
the government entities providing the physical services, and the e-Services projects teams (see graph
below).
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Focus: Service
delivery, provide
information to
front line
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No of Acces
No Suppor Connec
No of integ s to
Entity of e- Integrated System & t tivity
No servi rated entity
Name servi Service infrastructure info chann with
ces servi applic
ces el SGN
ces ation
Knowledge base
Ticketing System
Entity Official web Yes Yes
Site
Civil Enquiry for Phone,
(www.csb.gov.jo)
Status Competitive Email
1 12 6 1 Entity internal web
Bureau Ranking and
site
(CSB) order SMS
(www.csb2.gov.jo)
Entities data base
for the use of NCC
IVR services
Ministry Yes No
Knowledge base
Of Phone,
Ticketing System
Industry Email
2 21 6 0 Entity Official web
And and
Site
Trade SMS
(www.mit.gov.jo)
(MIT)
Enquiry for Yes Yes
Vehicle Knowledge base
Municip
Violation Ticketing System
ality Of Phone,
Enquiry of Entity Official web
Grater Email
3 21 19 3 Vocational Site
Amman and
Licenses (www.ammancity.go
(Amman SMS
Enquiry for v.jo)
City)
Amman City E-Fawatercom
Tenders
Knowledge base Yes No
Custom Ticketing System Phone,
s Entity Official web Email
4 11 8 0
Departm Site and
ent (www.customs.gov.j SMS
o)
Amman Knowledge base Yes No
Phone,
Chambe Ticketing System
Email
5 r Of 10 3 0 Entity Official web
and
Industry Site
SMS
(ACI) (www.ACI.org.jo)
Civil Yes No
Status
Knowledge base
And Phone,
Civil Info Ticketing System
Passpor Email
6 24 2 1 Ticketing Entity Official web
ts and
System Site
Departm SMS
(www.cspd.gov.jo)
ent
(CSPD)
Knowledge base Yes Yes
Social
Entity Official web Phone,
Security
Site Email
7 Corpora 44 3 0
(www.SSC.gov.jo) and
tion
Entity Application SMS
(SSC)
E-Fawatercom
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No of Acces
No Suppor Connec
No of integ s to
Entity of e- Integrated System & t tivity
No servi rated entity
Name servi Service infrastructure info chann with
ces servi applic
ces el SGN
ces ation
Ministry Knowledge base Yes No
Phone,
Of Ticketing System
Email
8 Educati 32 4 0 Entity Official web
and
on(MOE Site
SMS
) (www.MOE.gov.jo)
Knowledge base Yes No
Ministry Ticketing System
Of Entity Official web Phone,
Higher Site Email
9 12 4 0
Educati (www.MOHE.gov.jo) and
on www,heac.org.jo SMS
(MOHE) www.dsamohe.gov.j
o
Amman Knowledge base Yes Yes
Phone,
Chambe Ticketing System
Email
10 r Of 21 5 0 Entity Official web
and
Commer Site(www.ammanch
SMS
ce(ACC) amber.org)
Land Yes No
Transpo
Knowledge base
rt Phone,
Ticketing System
Regulat Email
11 13 1 0 Entity Official web
ory and
Site
Commis SMS
(www.ltrc.gov.jo)
ion
(LTRC)
Knowledge base Yes Yes
NCRC
Ministry Ticketing System Phone,
―Certificate
Of Entity Official web Email
12 10 3 1 of Non-
Justice( Site and
criminal
MOJ) (www.moj.gov.jo) SMS
Record‖
E-Fawatercom
Jordan No No
Institutio
Knowledge base
n for Phone,
Ticketing System
Standar Email
13 13 6 0 Entity Official web
ds and and
Site
Metrolo SMS
(www.jism.gov.jo)
gy
(JISM)
Departm Knowledge base Yes Yes
ent of Ticketing System Phone,
Lands Entity Official web Email
14 19 5 0
and Site and
Surveys (www.dls.gov.jo) SMS
(DLS) Entity Application
Knowledge base No No
Jordan Ticketing System Phone,
Tourism Entity Official web Email
15 14 4 0
Board Site and
(JTB) (www.visitjordan.co SMS
m)
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Request for Proposal – National Contact Center implementation
No of Acces
No Suppor Connec
No of integ s to
Entity of e- Integrated System & t tivity
No servi rated entity
Name servi Service infrastructure info chann with
ces servi applic
ces el SGN
ces ation
Ministry Yes No
of Knowledge base
Phone,
Tourism Ticketing System
Email
16 and 16 0 0 Entity Official web
and
Antiquiti Site
SMS
es (www.mota.gov.jo)
(MoTA)
Ministry Knowledge base Yes No
Phone,
of Ticketing System
Email
17 Foreign 2 0 0 Entity Official web
and
Affairs Site
SMS
(MFA) (www.mfa.gov.jo)
Housing Yes No
and
Knowledge base
Urban Phone,
Ticketing System
Develop Email
18 18 2 0 Entity Official web
ment and
Site
Corpora SMS
(www.hudc.gov.jo)
tion
(HUDC)
Knowledge base Yes No
Royal Phone,
Ticketing System
Cultural Email
19 2 2 0 Entity Official web
Center and
Site
(RCC) SMS
(www.rcc.gov.jo)
Knowledge base Yes No
Public
Ticketing System Phone,
security
Entity Official web Email
20 Director 20 0 0
Site and
ate
(www.psd.gov.jo) SMS
(PSD)
amnuna.com
Ministry Yes No
Knowledge base
of Phone,
Ticketing System
Municip Email
21 20 3 0 Entity Official web
al and
Site
Affairs SMS
(www.moma.gov.jo)
(MoMA)
Complai Yes Yes
nt Ticketing System
Manage Entity Official web
22 1 0 0 Phone
ment Site
Unit (www.cmu.gov.jo)
(CMU)
Ministry Knowledge base Yes No
Phone,
of Social Ticketing System
Email
23 Develop 34 0 0 Entity Official web
and
ment Site
SMS
(MOSD) (www.mosd.gov.jo)
Ministry Yes No
Phone,
of Knowledge base
Email
24 Awqaf ( 5 0 0 Ticketing System
and
AWQAF Entity Application
SMS
)
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Request for Proposal – National Contact Center implementation
No of Acces
No Suppor Connec
No of integ s to
Entity of e- Integrated System & t tivity
No servi rated entity
Name servi Service infrastructure info chann with
ces servi applic
ces el SGN
ces ation
Departm Yes No
Knowledge base Phone,
ent of
Ticketing System Email
25 National 26 0 0
Entity Official web and
Library
Site (www.nl.gov.jo) SMS
(DNL)
Indepen Yes No
Knowledge base
dent Phone,
Ticketing System
Election Email
26 1 0 0 Entity Official web
Commis and
Site
sion ( SMS
(www.entikhabat.jo)
IEC )
Orphans Yes No
Fund Knowledge base
Phone,
Develop Ticketing System
Email
27 ment 5 0 0 Entity Official web
and
Corpora Site
SMS
tion (www.ofdc.gov.jo)
(OFDC)
Knowledge base Yes Yes
Ministry Ticketing System Phone,
of Entity Official web Email
28 21 1 0
Interior Site and
(MOI) (www.moi.gov.jo) SMS
Entity Application
Ministry Yes No
Knowledge base
of Phone,
Ticketing System
Envirom Email
29 13 0 0 Entity Official web
ent and
Site
(MOEN SMS
(www.moenv.gov.jo)
V)
Telecom Yes No
municati
Phone,
ons
Knowledge base Email
30 Regulat 1 0 0
Ticketing System and
ory
SMS
Authorit
y (TRC)
Health No No
Insuranc Phone,
e Knowledge base Email
31 15 0 0
Director Ticketing System and
ate SMS
(HID)
King Phone, No No
Knowledge base
Abdulla Email
32 3 0 0 Ticketing System
h Fund and
Entity Application
(KAFD) SMS
Knowledge base
Ticketing System Phone,
Entity Official web Email
JEDCO
33 3 0 Site and yes NO
(http://www.jedco.go SMS
v.jo)
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Request for Proposal – National Contact Center implementation
No of Acces
No Suppor Connec
No of integ s to
Entity of e- Integrated System & t tivity
No servi rated entity
Name servi Service infrastructure info chann with
ces servi applic
ces el SGN
ces ation
Knowledge base No No
Ticketing System Phone,
Hajj Entity Official web Email
34 2 0 0
Fund Site and
(www.hajjfund.gov.j SMS
o)
―Ask the Knowledge base NA NA
Government (NCC Mail,
‖ ASK,SMS)
0 3 2 94444 and Email
Shared type in the
35
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Phone NA NA
E-Gov Web Sites and
0 1 0 Issue Email
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services
Number of
provided
e-Services
Number of
SMS….)
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Email,
Connectivi
Phone,
channels (
support
Required
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http://www.dsamohe.gov.jo/
Amman
10. 21 5 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Chamber of Email
Commerce www.ammanchamber.org and
(ACC) SMS
Public
11. 13 1 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Transportati Email
on www.ptrc.gov.jo and
Regulatory SMS
Commission
(PTRC)
Ministry of
12. 10 2 Knowledge base SGN Phone,
Justice (MoJ) Email
www.moj.gov.jo and
SMS
Jordan
13. 13 6 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Institution Email
for Standards www.jism.gov.jo and
and SMS
Metrology(JI
SM)
Department
14. 19 5 Knowledge base SGN Phone,
of Lands and Email
Survey (DLS) www.dls.gov.jo and
SMS
Entity’s application
Jordan
15. 14 4 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Tourism Email
Board(JTB) visitJordan.com and
SMS
Ministry of
16. 16 0 Knowledge base NA Phone,
tourism and Email
antiquities www.mota.gov.jo/ and
(MOTA) SMS
Ministry of
17. 2 0 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Foreign Email
Affairs (MFA) www.mfa.gov.jo and
SMS
Housing and
18. 18 2 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Urban Email
Development www.hudc.gov.jo and
Corporation SMS
(HUDC)
Royal
19. 2 2 Knowledge base NA Phone,
cultural Email
center (RCC) www.rcc.gov.jo and
SMS
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Public
20. 20 0 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Security Email
Directorate www.psd.gov.jo and
(PSD) SMS
http://amnuna.com
Ministry Of
21. 20 3 Knowledge base NA Phone,
Municipal Email
Affairs www.mma.gov.jo and
(MOMA) SMS
e-Gov Portal
22. 0 1 ASK Service Hoste Email
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cente
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SMS service
23. 0 1 Supporting 1444 180 Outs SMS
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the e-
Gov
opera
tions
cente
r
CMU
25. 1 0 www.cmu.gov.jo SGN Phone
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The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT) is soliciting proposals from
qualified bidders to provide the Government of Jordan with Contact Center operations, management
and technology outsourcing services as well as Contact Center standards and guidelines design and
build services. This is to provide customer service for the end users of the currently subscribing and
newgovernment entities services, e-Services, as well as e-Government shared services (Portal, SMS
Gateway, and GSB).
As mentioned in section 2 above, there are certain activities that are to be preformed and deliverables
to be provided by the wining bidder during execution of the Project. More detailed information on
each of them is provided below. Note that the bidders should detail in theirproposal all recommended
mechanisms and methodologies through which its services and deliverables will be accomplished. All
the final deliverables (documentation) of the project are required to be prepared in English. Selected
deliverables (as highlighted below) are required in both: English and Arabic languages.
MoICT will confirm to the winning bidder which entities and services need to be connected to the
NCC, then the winning bidder need to proceed on all the tasks to connect the approved entity and
related services.
The winning bidder should conduct a situational assessment within 45 days of the date of the order to
proceed indicating whether working with one/some of the selected entities in table 2.3.1 impose a risk
on the project success? And should indicate why? If it is found at that stage that some of the entities
might impose a major risk on the project success that cannot be resolved in due time, then the work for
such entities will be canceled from the scope of the project, and all costs related to serving these
entities shall be deducted from the fixed lump sum price for this component in addition to reduction of
any other costs related to the work that should have been done for these entities.
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In order to provide project planning and management services for adding new entites and services
once requested, the successful bidder is required, to perform the following activities:
Appoint staff needed and a designated Project Manager to oversee related activities execution
together with project teams to execute all designated tasks and activities
Identify key stakeholders and provide plan for managing their expectations
Ensure close cooperation with the MoICT team as well as the government entities and
dependencies representatives
Provide and maintain a full and comprehensive project schedule to achieve expected outcomes
Develop project structure to underline all possible resources needed from engaged parties
including their roles and responsibilities as well as their involvement at different stages of the
Project
Establish and execute a process of Quality Assurance (planning, assurance and control) for all
components included in the scope of work
Establish and execute a process for reporting project progress including deadlines; delays,
issues and critical paths to ensuring deliverables are met within resource constraints
Establish and execute a process for risks and issues management and mitigation
Implement submission and acceptance procedures for approving deliverables
The main success factor for this project lies in the proper definition of the customer experience, and
how that will be translated in the contact center, in terms of:
Striking a balance between customer service excellence (response time, courteous service,
knowledge and expertise) and related costs
Selecting the proper Customer Service Agents, training them and keeping their knowledge up
to date
Developing the processes and systems to help CSAs support customers properly.
The following are some examples that demonstrate the type of customer service questions the contact
centre may receive:
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Moment
Pre-use During use Post use
Category
General “What kind of “I do no understand “I sent you an e-mail
information information can I find what is stated on page requesting support
on the portal” xyz, about service because I cannot
ABC, could you please view some pages;
elaborate” when will I get an
answer?”
Services What do I need to issue I submitted my My application is
Inquiries Jordanian Passport? application with disapproved for the
complete attachments X reasons, when I
last Monday, is it can apply again?
approved already?
Services How much is my
outcomes property tax?
Difference “What are the benefits, “I have completed this “I used to receive
between E- compared to going to process now, should I notification via letter,
Service and the relevant not go somewhere to is the e-mail I just
traditional government entities?” pick up the received replacing
service paperwork?” the letter?”
How to use “How long will it take “I have filled in this
to complete the information on that
process? I use dial-up screen, what do I do
Internet access and do next?”
not want to spend a
fortune of phone costs”
“What kind of
information do I need
to have in order to
complete the process?”
Status “I have completed the “I received
information E-Service process, confirmation last
when will I receive week that the process
confirmation that it was completed. Can
went OK?” you see where my
request is?”
Payment “I do not trust your “Can you please
online payment; can I confirm that you
make the payment received my
separately?” payment?”
Fulfillment “If I submit the request “It has been 2 weeks
tomorrow, when will I since I was supposed
receive the output?” to receive my
paperwork. Why
haven‟t I received it
already?”
Technical “What are the “I think my browser‟s
support minimum systems pop-up blocker is
requirements?” interfering with the
“I cannot access the application, is that
application, is the correct?”
website down?” “The application
crashed while I was
entering my
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Moment
Pre-use During use Post use
Category
information, is
everything lost?”
Complaints “I do not have Internet “I am having problems “I have completed
access and cannot use completing the the transaction but
the E-Service, this is transaction and the did not receive the
discrimination” person trying to help paperwork and was
me was very rude” charged for it, this is
scandalous”
The winning bidder should provide more developed and enhanced services rather than the current
services provided in the face to face channel.
That should identify the As-Is situation in the relevant government entities, as well as the expected
Inquiries due to the introduction of Contact Center Services
a. What are the contact reasons, and the contact drivers?
b. What are the frequently asked questions and the answers?
The winning bidder is also requested to look at customer experience from other perspectives in
coordination with the respective government entities (service owners), e.g.:
Length and form of welcome sentence (also applicable to e-mail)
Tone of voice to adopt (also applicable to e-mail)
How to listen and interact with the customer during the conversation
What to do if no proper answer can be given during the call / first contact and if providing the
answer requires further investigation
When, and how to schedule a call back (information requested, how to plan time)
How to handle complaints
If, when and how to refer to existing material on the Website (e.g. FAQ‟s)
What to do with unsolicited customer feedback
How to close a call
How to perform an outbound call back (e.g. what to do in case of voicemail).
What to do when after hours call are received?
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All of the above questions should be verified and answered prior to starting the operation as the
winning bidder is required to develop the scripts and training material needed for customer service
agents training and orientation
The winning bidder should maintain the current built customer experience and should enhance and
develop this customer experience.
Based on the agreed-upon Customer Experience, the winning bidder shall determine the operational
requirements for each Service /e-Service /e-Gov Shared Service supported.
The winning bidder is also expected to align the operational requirements with the maturity level (i.e.
if the contact center is operating at maturity level 2, the operational requirements should fulfill the
operational requirements of this level. in cases where the Contact Center operations is at maturity level
3 the winning bidder should fulfill the requirements necessary of that level, etc…).
The winning bidder is required to provide the operational requirements of the supported Services
Q&As in the below illustrative format (building on table 3.1.1).
Requirements
Tools Processes Skills
Category
1) General Knowledge base Understand request. Customer service
information Case registration tool Look for answer. Knowledge on
E-mail handling Report missing Content. Product/Service
system (if relevant) Provide answer.
Verify satisfaction.
Close contact.
Log contact.
Escalate to GE for missing
content…etc.
Agents are up to date
whenever changes are
made to existing services
and/or new services are
added.
2) Services Same as above Same as above Customer Service
Inquiries Access of Services Knowledge on the
Systems Product/Service
3) Services Results Same as above Same as above Customer Service
Access of Services Knowledge on the
Systems Product/Service
4) Difference Knowledge base Customer service
between E-Service Case registration tool Knowledge on the
and traditional E-mail handling Product/Service
service system (if relevant)
5) How to use Same as above Same as above Customer service
Service/Product
Knowledge
6) Status Same as above Same as above Customer service
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Requirements
Tools Processes Skills
Category
information Access to Services Service/Product
Systems Knowledge
Access to e-Services
Systems
7) Payment Same as above Same as above Customer service
Access to e- Service/Product
Service/payment Knowledge
gateway Systems
8) Fulfillment Same as above Same as above Customer service
Service/Product
Knowledge
9) Technical Same as above Understand problem Customer Service
support E-Service Define hypotheses Troubleshooting skills
infrastructure Verify hypotheses,
dashboard identify source of problem
Define problem resolution
steps with customer
Verify satisfaction
Close contact
Log contact
Escalate incidents /
problems to MoICT
10) Complaints Same as above Understand complaint Customer service
Handle angry customer
Agree on resolution
process
Verify satisfaction
Close contact
Log contact
Escalate to MoICT /
relevant GE
Agents are up to date
whenever changes are
made to existing services
and/or new services are
added.
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Also bidders are required to provide the following information in their proposal in relation to the
Project Planning and Management for adding new entites or services:
Description of key stakeholders with approach to managing their expectations
Describe ideas how the overall coordination should be tackled in order to assure proper time
and effective use of resources and information
Describe approach to Quality Assurance for all components of the scope and relevant
qualifications in this field
Describe approach for communication
Describe approach to report progress
Describe approach to risks and issues management and mitigation
Describe methodology for the overall activities Management and bidder‟s professional
qualifications (like PM certificates) in project management field
Provide a list of deliverables for the Project Planning and Management.
In terms of effort of the implementation: what project team do you suggest and what
responsibilities are required from the Government side?
Describe your transition and implementation methodology and the process you follow to
ensure a thorough and timely implementation.
The bidder is required to provide the following information in the financial proposal in relation to the
design and build services:
List all costs associated with design and build activities. e.g. customer experience definition, script
development, training design and material, operational processes development for any new entity and
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related services and e services, in addition to the cost of relaetd project management activities for
adding new entities.
These costs should be fixed lump sum price and should be demonstrated in the bidders financial
proposal under )3( ملحق رقمof the Arabic Sample Contract
The cost of adding new services or e-services to existing entity is included in the cost of connecting
this entity .
Payments to the winning bidder for the delivery of these build and design activities will be in
accordance with the conditions and prices shown under )3( ) و رقم1( ملحق رقمof the Arabic Sample
Contract attached herewith. Please note that the unite rates proposed by winning bidderin من ملحق
) – خالصة بدل االجعاب3(| االجفاقية رقمof the Sample Arabic agreement will be taken into consideration
when verifying the winning bidderfinancial offers.
3.1.4 Deliverables
Based on the investigations described in section 3.1.1, the winning bidder shall develop a
manual that details all information requested. The manual should be a living document and
should be continuously updated whenever changes are made to an existing service and/or a
new Service is supported. (English and Arabic is needed)
An updated Question & Answer Matrix (Table 3.1.1), and the needed scripting, capturing all
possible questions and answers. This should be a living document and should be continuously
updated whenever changes to existing services and/or new services are supported (English and
Arabic)
The winning bidderis required to train his CSAs (Customer Service Advisor‟s) on the scripts
and manual, and continuous refreshment should be done regularly .
Based on the investigations described in section 3.1.2, the winning bidder shalldevelop a
manual that details all information related to operational requirements. The manual should be
a living document and should be continuously updated whenever changes are made to existing
services and/or new services are added (English and Arabic is needed)
The winning bidder is required to provide An updated Question & Answer Matrix (Table
3.1.2). This should be a living document and should be continuously updated whenever
changes are made to existing services and/or new services are added (English and Arabic)
The winning bidder to provide training on the processes, tools, and required customer skills
developed in the manual to his CSAs
Comprehensive project planning document covering project management documentation
especially :
o Project Management organization structure
o Detailed project execution plan and work breakdown structure outlining all tasks,
milestones and resource needs in monthly basis
o Project progress reporting and communication plan
o Issues and risk management
o Deliverables acceptance
Issues and risk log.
Provide Weekly and monthly status and progress reports.
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The winning bidder shall provide staff, logistics, premises and any other items needed for the
proper operations of the National Contact Center for the current list of entites & related service, e-
services and shared services as listed in table 2.3.1 in addition to the new entities that will be
connected during the project life.
MoICT has applied a decision model to determine the most optimal National Contact Centre business
model. The decision has been made to outsource and to centralize as described in section 3
In order to meet the main objectives of the National Contact Center; the winning bidder and
the relevant Government Entities will need to abide by strict governance model, which is
demonstrated in the below operational and administrative relationships.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Memorandum of Understanding will be proposed by the
winning bidder and signed between all parties involved for the provision of the services to
guarantee the rights of both Government and winning bidder and addressing any particular
issues if exist concerning the ownership, control or use of Intellectual Property rights e.g.,
copyrights trademarks, patents, etc….
Government Entities
Customers
(Service delivery, provide
information and access to SLA
Agreements National Contact Center
the National Contact Center
Information
processes
(OUTSOURCED to the winning bidder)
SOW Operational
Framework Information
Strategic Escalations compliance support processes
Requirements and processes agreement
Feedback
National Contact Center e -Services project
Working Group (e -Service and Shared
Services Systems)
Figure 3.2.1
The National Contact Center Working Group is the team who will ensure that the GE‟s and
thewinning bidderwork effectively and efficiently together.
The winning bidder will be responsible for:
Managing the contact center operations and providing support to the mentioned Services in
Table 2.3.1and any new services in coordination with the respective government entities and
the National Contact Center Working Group in accordance to the KPI‟s and the PI‟s described
in section 3.2.1.4..
Workload forecast.
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The Involved Government entities will be responsible for providing information about and access to
the supported service. While the integration Guidelines with the SMS Gateway and the National
eGovernment Portal will be given to the winning bidder after award.
The diagram below gives more details about the operational relationships between the three Parties
involved;
Figure 3.2.2
The National Contact Center working group will faciliatate the relationship between the winning
bidderand the involved government entities but will enable direct contacts with the GE‟s to support
customers. The government entities will channel escalations and strategic requirements through the
National Contact Center Working Group
The winning bidder will act as a first line of support for Government services/e-Services/e-Gov Shared
Services, and will escalate unresolved questions to the respective Service owner; winning bidder will
offer second line of support via call backs to the customers.
Portal support
Customers of the portal will be reporting their inquiries to the winning bidder through email channel.
Those inquiries might fall under the following three categories:
1. Business related inquiries: the National Contact Center will get informational questions related
to the government services offered on the portal, in case the National Contact Center could not
answer those questions from the portal available content and the FAQ‟s, the national contact
center should escalate those inquiries (through email and/or phone) to the contact liaison
officers residing at the government entities.
2. Content related inquiries: In some cases, citizens might report inquiries related to
faulty/outdated content. In some others, the National Contact Center might feel the value of
adding some information to the portal content to decrease number of related questions coming
on a certain topic. In those case, the contact center will open a communication with the related
content mangers, either to correct, amend, add information on the portal
3. Technical related inquiries: those inquiries will be related to broken links, page down, etc.
those will be escalated to the e-Government Helpdesk part of the e-Government Operations
Center where the portal is hosted.
In addition to the above, portal customers can communicate with the Government of Jordan
via social media, comments and feedbacks directly on the portal, some of these comments
might be directed to the winning bidder for support.
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Total number of
abandoned calls /
Total number of
Percentage of inbound routed calls
Abandon calls in which callers
AR ACD ≤ 5%
Rate choose to hang up *Abandond calls ≤ 5
before being answered seconds not counted
in total abandoned
calls & total routed
calls
Average
Average time that
Time ≤ 30
callers wait in queue ACD
before seconds
before abandoning
Abandoned
Email Time elapsed 8
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Measure- Proposed
PI Acronym Description Formula
ment Value
The average delay of all
Average Speed inbound calls (The
Total delay /
of Answer / ASA / average waiting time for ≤ 20
Total number of ACD
Average AWT all customers in the queue seconds
calls
Waiting Time and before being
answered)
The conversation time the
Average Average Talk To be
CSR spends with the
Handling Time AHT Time + Average ACD defined
customer & the time of
per Team After call work later
after call work
(Call volume X
Percentage of time agents AHT) / (# of
Occupancy
handling calls versus Agents X 1800
(Agent 85% - 90%
waiting for calls to arrive seconds) *
Utilization)
(available time)
* per 30 minutes
Number of
Measures the quality of
contacts
service provided to
*Quality monitored by a Twice a score to be
customers by monitoring
Monitoring quality monitor week above 90%
agent interactions with
per CSA per
customers
month
Occupancy for
TBD TBD
emails
Contact Number of
volumes incoming calls
received per
month
Number of
outbound (e.g.
Total volume of calls and
call backs)
email offered for
performed per
treatment and volume of
month
contacts answered
Number of
requests received
via email or the
web received per
month
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The breach percentage for each of these indicators will be calculated by dividing the actual result by
the baseline value. Then the average of all breach percentages will be calculated, taking into
consideration that the Service level indicator will be double weighted. Penalties will be as the
following table
Table 3.2.3
Total sum of the breach percentages Penalties to be deducted from Winning bidder
(ranges) per month (% of Monthly operations management fee)
1%-15% 5%
3.2.2.1 Organization
Describe how you would guarantee an optimal customer experience? What are the critical
components to achieve this?
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Present a proposal on internal organizational structure and personnel. This includes contact
center agents, operational site management team, and management team. Define the expected
ratio of management to staff.
MoICT will play a facilitator and enabler role; explain bidder's management approach for
managing this project, what would be your solution to sustain a direct relationship between
you and the involved government entities during project implementation as well as running the
operation ensuring the government entities full coordination, support, and commitment.
Describe if you have any experience working in a 3-way relationship as described in
figure3.2.1. Specifically, propose how you would work to establish and maintain efficient and
effective communications lines between the National CC working group, Services/e-
Services/shared services applications teams, and the related GE‟s
In case of operational disputes, an escalation process should be in place. Please propose your
envisioned escalation processes.
Different Migrations:
Describe your plan to migrate any contact center currently belongs to the respective
government entities into the National Contact Center ensuring that all contacts are
terminated and only handled by you.
Describe your plan to migrate from the current contact center belongs to the current
bidder to the new National contact center belong to new bidder .
Describe your plan, tools and support that guarantee the smooth migration from the
winning bidder national contact center to e-gov contact center during or at the end of
the contract.
Describe your plan, tools and support to guarantee the smooth migraton from the
winning bidder contact center to any other bidder contact center at the end of the
contract.
Propose your customer loyalty plan that will ensure trust between the National Contact Center
and its customers where by Citizens perception is changed and they will stop calling the
respective government entity for support
Please describe your standard processes with regards to Incident, Problem and Change
Management?
Describe how the winning bidder will manage the operation of the contact center based on the
existing contact volume provided in the previous paragraph.
Describe how the winning bidder will manage the forecasted traffic during the next years.
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Describe the minimum qualifications of your staff and how your support staff is organized.
Include certifications and education requirements along with any minimum qualifications.
Describe how you assess and predict the capacity required to maintain agreed upon levels of
service within the Contact Center (includes such capabilities as overflow- and workforce
management), leading to the effective and efficient use of capacity.
Describe how you map the contact volumes with the number of agents.
Explain your ways of working in relation to skill based routing of customers: propose how this
will be organized and supported
Describe your plan for handling the mentioned support requirements, Propose how are you
planning to organize your agents groups and skillsto support the various services
Describe your plan for handling the mentioned support requirements within the requested
opening hours? Please describe how you deal with e-mail requests and how you will monitor
the related quality and performance.
Describe your process of comparing Contact Center plans with actual performance; involve
setting standards, evaluating performance, monitoring progress and solving problems revealed.
Part of your proposal, describe how you wouldorganize the relationship with the respective
government entities to guarantee that your agents are continuously coached on the services,
provided with any missing information, are up to date whenever changes made to existing
services and/or new services are added. Indicate your plans with regards to
building/maintaining strong relationship with the involved entities staff (ex: incentive shecma,
training and capacity building programs, etc…)
Propose a monthly report per CSR, in term of served calls per agent and the quality of service
per CSR.Propose a quarterly report for the CSR evaluations, promotions and if there is any
planning to move or replace the CSR with the reason behind that.
Except as The MoICT may otherwise agree, no changes shall be made in the key Personnel.
If, for any reason beyond the reasonable control of the winning bidder, it becomes necessary to
replace any of the key Personnel, the winning bidder shall provide as a replacement a person
of equivalent or better qualifications.
If The MoICT finds that any of the Personnel have (i) committed serious misconduct or have
been charged with having committed a criminal action, or (ii) have reasonable cause to be
dissatisfied with the performance of any of the Personnel, then the winning bidder shall, at The
MoICT‟s written request specifying the grounds thereof, provide as a replacement a person
with qualifications and experience acceptable to The MoICT.
The winning biddershall have no claim for additional costs arising out of or incidental to any
removal and/or replacement of Personnel.
The bidder must provide the following information in his technical proposal regarding the Quality
management:
Describe your general quality system and achieved levels / certifications
Describe your process of controlling agent‟s efficiency and effectiveness for the purpose of
maintaining quality.
Describe how you would guarantee service quality.
Describe your quality checks plans, results & correction actions.
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Commitment to provide the e-Government team access to the voice recording system.
Commitment to provide Complete Quality Assurance documentation (including monthly QA
reports).
The bidder must provide the following information in his technical proposal regarding data,
Information and Knowledge Management:
How do you make sure that knowledge management is organized appropriately and that
process-related data (process description, scripting application, product information database,
search capabilities, customer information etc.) are easily accessible for agents; describe what
system would you use for that?
How do you collect, store and use customer's information gained from previous contacts such
as previous contacts, complaints, requests for information, etc. and, how do you make them
easily accessible for agents?
How do you manage the correctness, completeness, accuracy, and uniqueness and accessibility
of data collected in the Contact Center?
How are you going to guarantee that your agents are up to date with all information related to
the service they are supporting, including changes taking place on the e-service or new
service/information they need to support?
How are you going to migrate your current information and knowlesge management to
MOICT NCC infrasture when required
The bidder must provide the following information in his technical proposal regarding Reporting
and continuous improvements:
Provide your feedback on the KPI‟s and PI‟s described in this document. Indicate if there are
missing ones or some should be reconsidered? Describe how the values are in line with your
experience and how you are planning to report on them?
Explain in detail what reports you would make available to the e-government teamand how
those reports contribute to improvement in customer satisfaction, decrease in costs, and
increase in efficiency.
Indicate if your reporting set up can separate volumes and costs per Service, per e-Service, per
contact reason, etc
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Define the process to design and provide customized reports, or “ad-hoc” reports. Explain the
capability e-government team will have to access your report data, and to extract and format
information for its own ad-hoc reporting.
In addition to the detailed performance measurements, describe your plans to design and
implement a process to monitor customer satisfaction and report results on at least quarterly
basis
Describe your process to report on actual against forecast (for volumes), and on actual against
baseline (for phone support customer satisfaction)
Describe your process to improve operational processes based on personnel and customer
feedback. Please describe how you implement a continuous improvement cycle.
Bidder to Provide access for the row data, reporting tools and database for the NCC team .
Bidder to Provide quarterly reports related to the PRI occupancy, the required reports should
represent different time slots and working days.
Bidder to Provide quarterly & yearly report about the traffic & KPI per entity per month.
3.2.2.7 Miscellaneous
Describe the facilities you have to support contingency plans, e.g. in case of an e-Service issue
requiring all customers to be called back
Describe the facilities you have to support disaster, e.g. a flood on your premises
Describe and list of all the applications, infrastructure, systems, tools used for the current
services.
Describe how to maintain the existing services.
The bidder is required to provide the following information in the financial proposal in relation to
the operations outsourcing services:
List all costs associated with operations outsourcing services inclusive of all costs for the
provisioning of the outsourcing services based on the mentioned opening times and the
enclosed contact volumes taking into consideration increase or decrease of the contact
volumes during actual implementation. (That should be inclusive of all resources, premises,
stations, and any other cost implied for the proper functioning of the contact center)
The bidder is also requested to provide in the financial proposal their cost per successful contact
(*agent minute cost and IVR minute cost) for the following Contact volumes bands:noting that the
estimated contact volume is 2,000,000 contacts, and payments to the winning bidder will be
calculated according to the prices in the Cost Per Contact table multiplied by the actual executed
volume of contact:
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The bidder is also requested to provide in the financial proposal their cost for outbound (campaign
calls) for the following Contact volumes bands noting that the estimated contact volume for campaign
calls is 5,000 calls, and payments to the winning bidder will be calculated according to the prices in
the Cost Per Campaign Call table multiplied by the actual executed volume of contact:
The actual monthly remuneration fee to be paid to the winning bidder will be calculated as follows:
Monthly remuneration fee = Cost per contact in each band multiplied by No. of contacts in that month.
The e-government reserve the right to continue or stop the outsourcing of the operation of the contact
center with the winning bidder after migrating to e-governement contact center infrastructure, and will
pay the cost of the contacts to the winning bidder according to the above mentioned tables.
The bidder need to provide a finantial proposal for the different costs that will be applied due to the
migration from the winning bidder infrastructure to the e-government infrastructure , which will be
applied at any stage of this contract.
Please note that the unit rates for items number )ب-3 ،أ-3( proposed by winning bidder in منن ملحنق
) – خالصنة بندل االجعناب3(| االجفاقينة رقنمof the Sample Arabic agreement will be taken into consideration
when verifying the winning bidder financial offers, and the actual monthly remuneration that will be
paid to the winning bidder for these items will be calculated by using the equation shown above;
therefore winning bidder should include in ب) منه-3 ،أ-3( )– خالصة بدالت االجعاب جحث البند3( ملحق االجفاقية رقم
of the Arabic sample agreement, in their financial proposal their unite rate for these items based on
their proposed minute rates per call.
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3.2.4 Deliverables
MoICT reserves the right to interview and approveevery agent before they start
working.
MoICT reserves the right to request the replacement of any agent.
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As described in section 2.1, the development of the National Contact Center will encompass three
main areas; Contact Center operations management outsourcing, Shared Contact Center IS services,
and Contact Center Standards and GuidelinesDesign and Build Services
The e-Government program is intending to use the winning bidder shared IS services, and hence the
bidder shall describe their technology offering and capabilities to fulfill the service and support
requirements of maturity 2, 3, and 4, specifying:
While the responsibility for the e-Service applications naturally falls under the domain of the
Government, the winning bidder will be held responsible for the maintenance and operations of his
contact center systems as well as for the connectivity from the Contact Center to the respective
government entities.
The winning bidder should integrate their systems with the Services/ e-Services/Shared Services
systems and should specify the integration requirements from the government entity side to fulfill the
support requirements described in table 2.2.2. The integration will be needed to provide the agents
with view access as well as access to use, the integration should be using the Government Service Bus
(GSB) whenever it is applicable. The the list of web services already exists on the Government Service
Bus (GSB) will be given to the winning bidder after award. While the web services that are required to
be integrated with in order to maintain the current integration are listed in Annex 5.9. e-Services like
customers (Authentication mechanisms should be in place), Also integration with IVR will be required
to provide customers with access to some services through the IVR
Security of system and exchanged transaction information should be guaranteed at all system layers
Based on ISO 27001, ISO 27002, WS-Security standards including infrastructure, application, web
services and integration points, and access channels. This also includes using detective and preventive
controls for all security threats. Approval by MoICT and related stakeholders should be taken.
Describe your IT roadmap for the coming years and how its implementation/realizationis
secured in your organization. Does this include contact routing systems & applications,
communications networks & systems and desktop applications & systems?
Describe how you have organized your application and data structures, case centric or
customer centric. What approach in your view best applies to the Government‟s needs?
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Describe the connectivity set-up, the infrastructure and its functionality you have in
place.Describe what partnerships you have.
Describe the communications services you will offer for routing contacts to the Contact
Centeragents
Describe how you will sustain the current integrations between the different entites and the
systems.
Describe how you will manage the integration between any new entity or service and the
contact center applications.
Connectivity :
o Describe the main & back up links between the Contact Center and the e-governemt
operation centers, and the capacity of the lines according to the provided forecasts
o Describe the number and capacity of PRI‟s to serve the current traffic and the
required expantion in the future according to the provided traffic forecastand the
requested KPI‟s
o Describe which kind of SLA‟s you have for the different connectivity type and links
used in your infrastructure.
Describe your infrastructure security from the physical layer up to the application layer.
Describe how you will secure the end users information
Propose a secure authentication method based on business and functional requirements, best
practices, and international standard such as WS-Security standards.
Propse your privacy and security solution related to all supported e-services (particularly when
the winning bidder is required to do the transaction on behalf of the e-service customer), e.g.
caller authentication, Log-Trails, etc...
Determine security features which shall provide comprehensive security measures to enable
users to identify and authenticate themselves, protect information and prevent unauthorized
access.
Describe how the solution(s) will support information security auditing, logging,
accountability, non-repudiation, confidentiality and data integrity
Describe how you would ensure/guarantee availability, Quality of Service, confidentiality.
Describe how you would automate the communication between your agents with the
respective government entities back offices for escalation purposes; if the solution stipulates
the GE back office and your agents use the same tracking tools, indicate the security aspect of
your solution.
Confirm that the winning bidderis ready to connect to the Government Service BusGSB at
any time.
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The bidder is required to provide the following information in the financial proposal in relation to the
technology Requirements:
Payments to the winning bidder for the delivery of these services will be in accordance with the
conditions and prices shown under )3( ) و رقم1( ملحق رقمof the Arabic Sample Contract attached
herewith.Please note that the unite rates proposed by winning bidderin ) – خالصة3(| من ملحق االجفاقية رقم
بدل االجعابof the Sample Arabic agreement will be taken into consideration when verifying the
winning bidderfinancial offers
3.3.4 Deliverables.
All technology requirements to fulfill the support requirements indicated in table 2.2.2
(Maturity level 2, 3, and 4)
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4. ADMINISTRATIVEPROCEDURESAND REQUIREMENTS.
4.1 RESPONSE PROCEDURE
All inquiries with respect to this RFP are to be addressed to the Ministry of Information and
Communications Technology‟s in writing by e-mail with the subject “National Contact Center
Management and Operations”, tender number: (7/ح ك/ 2016). Inquiries can only be addressed to
NCCRFP@moict.gov.jo by 14/6/2016. Responses will be sent in writing no later than 20/6/2016.
Questions and answers will be shared with all Bidders‟ primary contacts.
A. Corporate capability statement : Corporate capability statement must include all the
following:
Corporate technical capabilities in various technologies and platforms (both
Hardware and Software).
Detailed proposed Team Resumes,
Description and references to similar projects done by the bidder,in the last 5
years.
In order for the evaluation to progress quickly and effectively, bidders are
requested to provide Part I of their proposal as per the format described in
Annex 5point(5.1).
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Proposals should be submitted as 3 separate parts each part in a separate well-sealed and
wrapped envelope clearly marked, respectively, as follows:
1.Part I “Request for Proposal for “National Contact Center Management and Operation for the
Government of Jordan –– Technical and CorporateCapability Proposal”.
This part (envelop) should contain 2 hard copies (1 original and 1 copy) and 1 softcopy [in
Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2010 compatible formats].This part should not contain
any reference to cost or price. Inclusion of any cost or price information in the technical
proposal will result in the bidder‟s proposal being disqualified as unresponsive.
2.Part II “Request for Proposal for “National Contact Center Management and Operation for the
Government of Jordan –– Financial Proposal”
This part (envelop) should contain 2 hard copies (1 original and 1 copy) and one 1
softcopy [in Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2010 compatible formats].
3.Part III “Request for Proposal for “National Contact Center Management and Operation for the
Government of Jordan –– Bid Security”
This part should not contain any reference to cost or price. Inclusion of any cost or price
information in the technical proposal will result in the bidder‟s proposal being disqualified
as unresponsive.
Late submissions will not be accepted nor considered and in case of discrepancy between the
original hard copy or other copiesor the soft copiesof the proposal, the hard copy marked as
original shall prevail and shall be considered the official copy. Proposals may be withdrawn
or modified and resubmitted in writing any time before the submission date. Regardless of
method of delivery, the proposals must be received by the MoICT no later than 2:00 PM on
Sunday 10/7/2016
MoICT will not be responsible for premature opening of proposals not clearly labeled.
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All responses to the RFP will be evaluated technically and financially and the winning
proposal will be selected on the basis of lowest price of qualified proposals ( أرخص العروض
)المؤهلة
Only those bidders that qualify in the technical proposal will have their financial offers
reviewed. The Financial proposal will be evaluated only for companies who qualify,
based on a minimum acceptable score set by the special tendering committee. The
financial offer of those who do not qualify will not be opened and will be returned.
NOTE: The special tendering committee can disqualify a bidder if the technical proposal
does not clearly confirm the commitment to deliver key performance indicators described in
Table 3.2.1 in the RFP.
The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology reserves the right not to select
any offer. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology also assumes no
responsibility for costs of bidders in preparing their submissions.
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The Government takes no responsibility for the costs of preparing any bids and will
not reimburse any Bidder for the cost of preparing its bid whether successful or
otherwise.
The bidders shall not submit alternative proposal. Alternative proposals will be
returned unopened or unread. If the bidder submits more than one proposal and it is
not obvious, on the sealed envelop(s), which is the alternative proposal, in lieu of
returning the alternative proposal, the entire submission will be returned to the bidder
and the bidder will be disqualified.
The proposal shall be signed by the bidder or a person or persons duly authorized to
bind the bidder to the contract. The latter authorization shall be indicated by duly-
legalized power of attorney and a certified copy of this authorization is to be attached
to technical proposal. All of the pages of the proposal, except un-amended printed
literature, shall be initialed by the person or persons signing the proposal.
Any interlineations, erasures or overwriting shall only be valid if they are initialed by
the signatory(ies) to the proposal.
Bidders must submit a Non Disclosure Agreement as presented in Annex 5 point (5.6)
signed by a duly authorized representative of the company as part of the response to
this Request for Proposal (RFP). All members of the bidder's team, their agents and
business partners involved in the project must each sign an individual Non Disclosure
Agreement. All bidders are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of information
obtained and/or exchanged while working on the RFP. All of the information
contained in this RFP shall be deemed to be "Confidential Information" within the
meaning of the NDA and shall be treated accordingly. Such information may not be
copied, disclosed or distributed to any other person without the prior written consent
of MoICT.
The Government of Jordan requires that all parties to the contracting process observe
the highest standard of ethics during the procurement and execution process.
Government of Jordan will reject a proposal for award if it determines that the Bidder
has engaged in corrupt or fraudulent practices in competing for the contract in
question.
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The Successful Bidder shall perform the Services and carry out their obligations with
all due diligence, efficiency, and economy, in accordance with the highest generally
accepted professional techniques and practices, and shall observe sound management
practices, and employ appropriate advanced technology and safe methods. The
Successful Bidder shall always act, in respect of any matter relating to the execution of
the Services, as faithful adviser to The MOICT, and shall at all times support and
safeguard The MoICT‟s legitimate interests in any dealings with third parties
No bidder shall contact MoICT, or its employees, members of the tendering or the
technical committees on any matter relating to its proposal to the time the contract is
awarded. Any effort by a bidder to influence MoICT, its employees, members of the
tendering or the technical committees or the tendering committee in the tendering
committee‟s proposal evaluation, proposal comparison, or contract award decision will
result in rejection of the bidder‟s proposal and forfeiture of the proposal security.
Bidders must comply with the Sample Arabic Contract provided with the RFP
including General and Special Conditions. Any reservations on the Contact on part of
the bidder shall result in rejection oftheir proposal without giving any justification.
The laws and regulations of The Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan shall apply to awarded
contracts.
Proposals shall remain valid for a period of (90) days from the closing date for the
receipt of proposals as established by the Tendering Committee.
The Tendering Committee may solicit the bidders‟ consent to an extension of the
proposal validity period. The request and responses thereto shall be made in writing or
by fax. If a bidder agrees to prolong the period of validity, the proposal security shall
also be suitably extended. A bidder may refuse the request without forfeiting its
proposal security; however, in its discretion, the tendering committee may cease
further review and consideration of such bidder‟s proposal. A bidder granting the
request will not be required nor permitted to modify its proposal, except as provided in
this RFP.
MoICT reserves the right to accept, annul or cancel the bidding process and reject all
proposals at any time without any liability to the bidders or any other party
and/withdraw this tender without providing reasons for such action and with no legal
or financial implications to the Government of Jordan.
MoICT reserves the right to disregard any bid which is not submitted in writing by the
closing date of the tender. An electronic version of the technical proposal will only be
accepted if a written version has also been submitted by the closing date.
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MoICT reserves the right to disregard any bid which does not contain the required
number of proposal copies as specified in this RFP. In case of discrepancies between
the original hardcopy and other hard copies or the softcopy of the proposals, the
original hardcopy shall prevail and will be considered the official copy.
MoICT reserves the right to enforce penalties on the winning bidder in case of any
delay in delivery defined in accordance with the terms set in the sample Arabic
contract attached hereto.
Bidders may not object to the technical or financial evaluation criteria set forth for this
tender.
The contractor will be expected to provide a single point of contact to which all issues
can be escalated. MoICT will provide a similar point of contact.
MoICT reserves the right to meet and approve (in person or via telephone) each
member of the consulting team or operations team prior to any work, taking place.
Where project staff is not felt to be suitable, either before starting or during the
execution of the contract the MoICT reserves the right to request an alternative staff at
no extra cost to the MoICT.
Each bidder will be responsible for providing its own equipment, office space,
secretarial and other resources, insurance, medical provisions, visas and travel
arrangements.
Any documentation or applications procured or developed under „National Contact
Center Implementation for Government of JordanThe Project’are the property of the
MoICT upon conclusion of „National Contact Center Outsourcing for Government of
JordanThe Project‟. Written consent must be obtained from MoICTbefore sharing any
part of this information as reference or otherwise.
Bidders are responsible for the accuracy of information submitted in their proposals.
MoICTreserves the right to request original copies of any documents submitted for
review and authentication prior to awarding the tender.
The bidder may modify or withdraw its proposal after submission, provided that
written notice of the modification or withdrawal is received by the tendering
committee prior to the deadline prescribed for proposal submission. Withdrawal of a
proposal after the deadline prescribed for proposal submission or during proposal
validity as set in the tender documents will result in the bidder‟s forfeiture of all of its
proposal security.
A bidder wishing to withdraw its proposal shall notify the Tendering Committee in
writing prior to the deadline prescribed for proposal submission. A withdrawal notice
may also be sent by fax, but it must be followed by a signed confirmation copy,
postmarked not later than the deadline for submission of proposals.
The notice of withdrawal shall be addressed to the tendering committee at the address
in RFP, and bear the contract name “National Contact Center Implementation for
Government of Jordan” and the words “Withdrawal Notice”.
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Proposal withdrawal notices received after the proposal submission deadline will be
ignored, and the submitted proposal will be deemed to be a validly submitted proposal.
The Bidder accepts to comply with all provisions, whether explicitly stated in this RFP
or otherwise, stipulated in the Public Works By-Law No. 71 of 1986 and its
amendments, the General Tendering Instructions of 1987, and any other provisions
stated in the Standard Contracting sample Arabic Contract Agreement annexed to this
RFP including general and special conditions, issued pursuant to said Public-Works
By-Law and Tendering Instruction.
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Intellectual Property for the purpose of this provision shall mean all copyright and
neighboring rights, all rights in relation to inventions (including patent rights), plant
varieties, registered and unregistered trademarks (including service marks), registered
designs, Confidential Information (including trade secrets and know how) and circuit
layouts, and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial,
scientific, literary or artistic fields.
Contract Material for the purpose of this provision shall mean all material (includes
documents, equipment, software, goods, information and data stored by any means):
brought into existence for the purpose of performing the Services;
incorporated in, supplied or required to be supplied along with the
Material referred to in the previous paragraph(s); or
copied or derived from Material referred to in the previous
paragraph(s).
Intellectual Property in all Contract Material vests or will vest in The MoICT. This
shall not affect the ownership of Intellectual Property in any material owned by the
Successful Bidder, or a Subcontractor, existing at the date of Contract signature.
However, the Successful Bidder grants to The MoICT, or shall procure from a
Subcontractor, on behalf of The MoICT, a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free,
worldwide, non-exclusive license (including a right of sub-license) to use, reproduce,
adapt and exploit such material as specified in the Contract and all relevant
documents.
If requested by The MoICT to do so, the Successful Bidder shall bring into existence,
sign, execute or otherwise deal with any document that may be necessary or desirable
to give effect to these provisions.
The winning Bidder warrants that it is entitled, or will be entitled at the relevant time,
to deal with the Intellectual Property in any Contract Material.
The Successful Bidder shall at all times indemnify and hold harmless The MoICT, its
officers, employees and agents from and against any loss (including legal costs and
expenses on a solicitor/own client basis) or liability incurred from any claim, suit,
demand, action or proceeding by any person in respect of any infringement of
Intellectual Property by the Successful Bidder, its officers, employees, agents or
Subcontractors in connection with the performance of the Services or the use by The
MoICT of the Contract Material. This indemnity shall survive the expiration or
termination of the Contract.
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5. Annex
5.1 TECHNICAL PROPOSAL RESPONSE FORMAT
Introduction
Executive Summary
This includes the bidder’s understanding of the terms of reference, scope of work
and necessary skills, and company profile. This involves including an overview of
the main points contained in the proposal with references to sections where more
detailed discussion of each point can be found (maximum 4 pages).
Approach
A detailed description of how the bidder will undertake each major area in the
SCOPE OF THE PROJECT and DELIVERABLES section, required resources
(bidder, ministry and third party) and any special skills required, the deliverables
(format and structure), use of any methodology and how it will cover the scope, use
of any standard tools, and duration of any work streams.
[Activity 1]
Implementation Approach
Actions Approach
… …
Deliverables
Deliverables Format and Structure
Provides a listing of the deliverables Describes the format (e.g. MS Word document)
of the Activity and Structure (e.g. Outline, indicating the scope
and content) of each deliverable.
… …
[Activity 2]
Implementation Approach
Actions Approach
… …
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Deliverables
Deliverables Format and Structure
Provides a listing of the deliverables Describes the format (e.g. MS Word document)
of the Activity and Structure (e.g. Outline, indicating the scope
and content) of each deliverable.
… …
[Activity…]
Implementation Approach
Actions Approach
… …
Deliverables
Deliverables Format and Structure
Provides a listing of the deliverables Describes the format (e.g. MS Word document)
of the Activity and Structure (e.g. Outline, indicating the scope
and content) of each deliverable.
… …
Track Record
The bidder’s track record on projects similar in both size and nature undertaken in
the last five years, and references of suitable client references with contact details
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Curriculum Vitae
Proposed Position on the Project: ______________________
Education
________________________________________________________________________________
_
Employment Record:
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Languages:
Reading Speaking Writing
Language 1
Language n
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Signature Date
Other Information
Appendices
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5.2 FINANCIAL PROPOSAL RESPONSE FORMAT
Please indicate the overall estimated cost of your proposed solution.
Cost should be broken down as per the schedules below as well as the detailed scope of work presented
in section 3 of this document.
The price quotation should be all-inclusive fixed price and provided in Jordanian Dinars (JD). All prices
are inclusive of all fees, finance rate and taxes. All prices are for site delivery.
Project Total Cost (Contract Amount) for the total compensation for the whole WORK
contemplated under this proposal: [ JD]
The bidder is required to finance lump sum cost of the project according to Arabic Sample
Agreement 3 ملحق االتفاقية رقم
Skill 2
Skill 3
Skill N
TOTAL
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Technology and
Integration Resource/item Unit Number
Requirements cost) of Units Total Cost Comments
TOTAL
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ITEM DATE
(DD/MM/YY)
This Undertaking is made on [DATE] by [NAME] “[Consultant]” to the benefit of the Ministry
of Information and Communications Technology, “[Principal]” [8th Circle, P.O. Box 9903,
Amman 11191 Jordan].
WHEREAS, MoICT possesses certain financial, technical, administrative and other valuable
Information (referred to hereinafter as Confidential Information)
Confidential Information:
As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means all information,
transmitted by Principal or any of its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, offices and
their respective personnel, consultants and contractors, that is disclosed to the Contractor or
coming to his knowledge in the course of evaluating and/or implementing the Project and shall
include all information in any form whether oral, electronic, written, type written or printed form
regarding the business and operations of the Principal, its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents,
representatives, offices, and their respective personnel, consultants and contractors. Confidential
Information shall mean information not generally known outside the Principal, it does not
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include information that is now in or hereafter enters the public domain without a breach of this
Agreement or information or information known to Contractor by Third Party who did not
acquire this information from Principal ” .
(1) The Confidential Information will be retained in the Principal‟s premises and will not be
moved without the express written consent of the Principal. All Confidential Information shall be
and remain the property of the Principal, and such Confidential Information and any copies
thereof, as well as any summaries thereof, shall be promptly returned to the Principal upon
written request and/or destroyed at the Principal's option without retaining any copies. The
Contractor shall not use the Confidential Information for any purpose after the Project.
(2) It will use all reasonable means and effort, not less than that used to protect its own
proprietary information, to safeguard the Confidential Information.
(3) The Contractor shall protect Confidential Information from unauthorized use, publication
or disclosure.
(4) It will not , directly or indirectly, show or otherwise disclose , publish, communicate,
discuss , announce, make available the contents of the Confidential Information or any part
thereof to any other person or entity except as authorized in writing by the Principal.
(5) It will make no copies or reproduce the Confidential Information, except after the
Principal‟s written consent.
(6) The Confidential Information will not be used to unfairly compete or obtain advantage over
others either himself or his company. The Confidential Information shall be used for the sole
purpose of performing this Project only.
The Contractor acknowledges that monetary damages for unauthorized disclosure may not be
sufficient remedy for unauthorized disclosure less than 20% of the Confidential Information
Project and that Principal shall be entitled, in addition to monetary damages of 20% and without
waiving any other rights or remedies, to such injunctive or equitable relief as may be deemed
proper by a court of competent jurisdiction.
It is understood that the Contractor might need from time to time to discuss the details of
Confidential Information with other individuals employed within its own or associated
companies in order to support, evaluate, and/or advance the interests of the subject business
transaction. Any such discussion will be kept to a minimum, and the details disclosed only on a
need to know basis. Prior to any such discussion, the Contractor shall inform each such
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individual of the proprietary and confidential nature of the Confidential Information and of the
Contractor‟s obligations under this Agreement. Each such individual shall also be informed that
by accepting such access, he thereby agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement.
Furthermore, by allowing any such access, the Contractor agrees to be liable for any disclosure
by any such individual that is not in accordance with this Agreement.
Miscellaneous.
The obligations and rights of the Parties shall be binding on and inure to the benefit of their
respective heirs, successors, assigns, and affiliates. This Agreement may be amended or
modified only by a subsequent agreement in writing signed by both parties. Contractor may not
transfer or assign the Agreement or part thereof. No provision of this Agreement shall be deemed
to have been waived by any act or acquiescence on the part of the Principal, its agents or
employees, nor shall any waiver of any provision of this Agreement constitute a waiver of any
other provision(s) or of the same provision on another occasion. This Agreement shall be
construed and enforced according to Jordanian Law. The Contractor hereby agrees to the non-
exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Amman, Jordan and to the jurisdiction of any courts where
the Principal deems it appropriate or necessary to enforce its rights under this Agreement.
Term of Agreement.
The obligations of the parties under this Agreement shall continue and survive the completion of
the aforesaid discussions and shall remain binding for a period of 5 years from the date of
execution of this Agreement. This provision shall remain binding for the above stated period
even if any or all of the parties abandon their efforts to undertake a possible business
transactionor continue the Project.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Contractor hereto have executed this Agreement on the date first
written above.
Consultant:
By:_____________________________
Authorized Officer
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