Planning

Digital Consultation and Engagement Solution (CWC25034MW)

  • Wolverhampton City Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-009176

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04eca0

Published 13 March 2025, 11:58am



Scope

Reference

CWC25034MW

Description

The City of Wolverhampton Council (CoWC) is conducting a Preliminary Market Engagement for a Digital Consultation and Engagement Solution.

CoWC champions the value of consultation and engagement and sees it as an opportunity as well as a duty. There are over 260,000 people who live in Wolverhampton, and there are many others who visit and work in the city. Consultation and engagement is an important way in which residents, businesses and other stakeholders can help to influence decision making in the city.

To help ensure that engagement is successful and meaningful, COWC wants to make it as easy and accessible as possible for people to participate in consultations and engagement. To do this it needs to ensure it has the right tools and platform.

The Council would like to understand what digital consultation and engagement solutions exist in the market, to ensure that stakeholder needs are met.

The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement is to seek input from potential suppliers within the market, to establish the types of solution, functionality, delivery types, and costing models that are available for a Digital Consultation and Engagement solution.

If you would like to participate in the Preliminary Market Engagement please complete and submit the questionnaire available on the Council's website https://procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities/Index?resetFilter=True&applyFilter=True&p=cdcfff6b-8cbd-e611-8118-000c29c9ba21&v=1

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 11 January 2026 to 10 January 2030
  • 4 years

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems

Engagement

Engagement deadline

5 April 2025

Engagement process description

The City of Wolverhampton Council (CoWC) is conducting a Preliminary Market Engagement for a Digital Consultation and Engagement Solution.

CoWC champions the value of consultation and engagement and sees it as an opportunity as well as a duty. There are over 260,000 people who live in Wolverhampton, and there are many others who visit and work in the city. Consultation and engagement is an important way in which residents, businesses and other stakeholders can help to influence decision making in the city.

To help ensure that engagement is successful and meaningful, COWC wants to make it as easy and accessible as possible for people to participate in consultations and engagement. To do this it needs to ensure it has the right tools and platform.

The Council would like to understand what digital consultation and engagement solutions exist in the market, to ensure that stakeholder needs are met.

The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement is to seek input from potential suppliers within the market, to establish the types of solution, functionality, delivery types, and costing models that are available for a Digital Consultation and Engagement solution.

If you would like to participate in the Preliminary Market Engagement please complete and submit the questionnaire available on the Council's website https://procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities/Index?resetFilter=True&applyFilter=True&p=cdcfff6b-8cbd-e611-8118-000c29c9ba21&v=1


Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Contracting authority

Wolverhampton City Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVBV-7568-LBLL

Civic Centre, St Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1RL

United Kingdom

Contact name: Mr Barry Greenwood

Email: barry.greenwood@wolverhampton.gov.uk

Website: https://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/

Region: UKG39 - Wolverhampton

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government