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Request for information about our telephone and network services

Request for information about our telephone and network services, received on 23 March 2021

Request received on 23 March 2021

    Telephony and UC/ Collaboration

  • 1. Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place
  • 2. When was the installation date of your telephony equipment?
  • 3. When is your contract renewal date?
  • 4. Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
  • 5. Please confirm the value of the initial project
  • 6. Please confirm the total ongoing annual spend on telephony
  • 7. Please confirm the annual support cost for your telephony system
  • 8. Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools, if so which ones?

  • Contact Centre

  • 9. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that are currently in place?
  • 10. When was the installation date of your contact centre infrastructure?
  • 11. When is your contract renewal date?
  • 12. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)?
  • 13. Please confirm value of the initial project?
  • 14. Please confirm the value of annual support/maintenance services (in £)? And overall annual spend for the contact centre
  • 15. How many contact centre agents do you have?
  • 16. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices?
  • 17. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used?
  • 18. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What platform is used?

  • Connectivity and Network Services

  • 19. Who provides your WAN and internet connectivity and the annual spend on each?
  • 20. Have you , or do you plan to deploy SD Wan services
  • 21. Have you got SIP trunks, if so who from and confirm annual spend?
  • 22. Please confirm who provides your LAN, WIFI and Security infrastructure
  • 23. Please confirm your annual spend on each
  • 24. Please confirm your data centre switching and security infrastructure and have you deployed cloud-based security and threat management

  • Organisation

  • 25. How many employees do you have overall within your organisation?
  • 26. Can you provide contact details for your procurement lead / category manager for these services?
  • 27. Can you provide names and contact details for the following people within your organisation?
    • CIO / IT Director
    • Head of IT
    • Head of Digital Transformation
    • Head of Customer Services

    Response sent on 22 April 2021

    Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

    • 01. Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place
      Polycom/Microsoft
    • 02. When was the installation date of your telephony equipment?
      January 2017
    • 03. When is your contract renewal date?
      Currently on an annual contract - next renewal date is 3rd November 2021
    • 04. Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
      In-house IT team
    • 05. Please confirm the value of the initial project
      £30,846.07.
    • 06. Please confirm the total ongoing annual spend on telephony
      £26,280.72 inc VAT
    • 07. Please confirm the annual support cost for your telephony system
      This is included in the cost given at Q.6 above
    • 08. Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones?
      Yes. Microsoft Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams
    • 09. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that are currently in place?
      N/A. We do not have or use a Contact centre system
    • 10. When was the installation date of your contact centre infrastructure?
      N/A
    • 11. When is your contract renewal date?
      N/A
    • 12. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)?
      N/A
    • 13. Please confirm value of the initial project?
      N/A
    • 14.Please confirm the value of annual support/maintenance services (in £ )? And overall annual spend for the contact centre
      N/A
    • 15. How many contact centre agents do you have?
      N/A
    • 16. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices?
      N/A
    • 17. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used?
      N/A
    • 18. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What platform is used?
      N/A

    • Connectivity and Network Services

    • 19. Who provides your WAN and internet connectivity and the annual spend on each?
      Provided by Virgin Media Business. Annual cost of £24,709.20 inc VAT
    • 20. Have you , or do you plan to deploy SD Wan services
      No
    • 21. Have you got SIP trunks, if so who from and confirm annual spend?
      no
    • 22. Please confirm who provides your LAN, WIFI and Security infrastructure
      Managed by the in-house IT team
    • 23. Please confirm your annual spend on each
      N/A
    • 24. Please confirm your data centre switching and security infrastructure and have you deployed cloud-based security and threat management MS Defender and MS Azure ATP

    • Organisation

    • 25. How many employees do you have overall within your organisation?
      56
    • 26. Can you provide contact details for your procurement lead / category manager for these services?
      Sam Clark, Director of Corporate Services - contactable at sam.clark@supremecourt.uk
    • 27. Can you provide names and contact details for the following people within your organisation?
      • CIO / IT Director : No such post
      • Head of IT : See answer to Q.26. above
      • Head of Digital Transformation: No such post
      • Head of Customer services : No such post