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Tollway Authority Expresses Interest in AI-Assisted Contact Center

The North Texas Tollway Authority is seeking information on contact center-as-a-service platforms with artificial intelligence functions, such as conversational interactive voice response.

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The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) has issued a request for information (RFI) on advanced contact center technologies.

The organization is interested in contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) platforms capable of the following integrated functions:
  • An automatic call distributor
  • Estimated and virtual hold
  • Conversational artificial intelligence interactive voice response
  • Workforce management application
  • Quality management
  • Voice/screen contact recording and speech analytics applications
  • Omnichannel messaging
  • Advance AI agent assistance

NTTA’s current system for both its contact center and its corporate offices is a premise-based voice over Internet protocol. Its current call volume is 5.4 million, plus 44,000 customer emails processed annually.

Additionally, NTTA has expressed interest in unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) platforms with call transfer and voicemail capabilities.

The organization will require licenses for approximately 700 CCaaS users and 2,500 UCaaS users.

More detailed information about RFI No. 87547, including all submission requirements and requests, can be found online. A pre-bid conference will be held online at 9 a.m. July 19. Questions regarding this RFI are due by 11 a.m. July 24. The due date for submissions is 11 a.m. Aug. 7. Kent Brown is the point of contact for this request.
Chandler Treon is an Austin-based staff writer. He has a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in literature and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in technical communication, all from Texas State University.