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title: "Contact-centre solution for the Municipality of Groningen"
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# Contact-centre solution for the Municipality of Groningen

Gemeente Groningen seeks a cloud contact-centre service to provide, implement, maintain and further develop handling of incoming and outgoing customer contacts. The estimated value is €1.3 million over a maximum ten years: five initial years and five one-year extension options. Evaluation assigns 40 points to price, 20 to overall design, 10 to the implementation plan and 30 to demonstrations of four cases.

- Status: open
- Country: NL
- Buyer: Gemeente Groningen
- Submission deadline: 2026-12-01T12:00:00+01:00 (instant)
- Original notice: https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/696715-2026
- Source checked: 2026-10-12T23:39:38.623051Z

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