Group Websites and Associated Services

Tender description

Wheatley Group is undertaking a market engagement exercise to explore options for delivering a new suite of customer-facing websites. This exercise supports Wheatley’s 2026–2031 strategy, which sets out a shift to digital-first, personalised customer engagement. Future websites must be AI-ready, accessible, cost-efficient and capable of delivering hyper-local and relevant content across Wheatley’s subsidiaries. The objectives of this market engagement are to: -prepare the market for a potential future procurement of a unified website solution. -understand approaches to delivering AI-ready, accessible and personalised websites. -identify indicative costs and delivery models, including build, hosting and migration. -gain insight into market innovation, best practice, supplier experience in large-scale website transformation. -understand risks, constraints and opportunities associated with consolidating multiple websites. -clarify assumptions and information requirements ahead of any formal process; and -explore delivery approaches that support rapid launch. Lot 1: Wheatley Group is seeking engagement from the market to assess future options around our websites. The Group has 6 websites in total. One for the Wheatley Group and the other five relate to subsidiary partners. The purpose of this engagement is to seek insight into the current industry standard and alternative options to ensure AI readiness. It is worth noting that future rebranding may result in a reduction of the number of websites.