Contracts Finder notice
Provision of Merchant Acquirer Services
Authority: DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
CPV: Financial and insurance services (66000000)
Published contract value£69,170,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 May 2027
Awarded to Barclays Bank PLC
Contract starts 31 May 2022
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Agreement will be for the services of a Merchant Acquirer to facilitate credit and debit
card processing on behalf of the Authority within the following environments: -
- Internet
- Cardholder present
- Cardholder not present
The service to be provided will include as a minimum:
- Transaction processing - online, manual and telephone
- Integrated system links
- Provision of rented processing terminals with Chip and Pin functionality
- Online payment and settlement service accessed via the internet.
***Contract contains 2 x 1 years extension options which were enacted 31/01/2025, the contract end date has been changed to 31/05/2027.***
Additional information:
Previous Notice: 2021/S 000-007863
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Buyer reference
- tender_268441/1082488
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- No
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Published tender value
- £89,990,000.00
- Min Value
- £69,170,000.00
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Open
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- SA6 7JL; Wales, United Kingdom
- Description
Successful Bidder: Barclays Bank PLC
Unsuccessful Bidders included: Adyen UK, Checkout.com, World Pay, Stripe, Lloyds Bank.
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision31 May 2022
- Contract starts31 May 2022
- Notice published27 Jun 2022
- Contract ends31 May 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licensing AgencyContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Barclays Bank PLCSupplier
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-16876928-fc1a-471f-b7a9-f6fe8c4a7c08-2026-10-14T12:39:50+01:00
- Published
- 27 Jun 2022
- Latest update
- 14 Oct 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-16876928-fc1a-471f-b7a9-f6fe8c4a7c08
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-16876928-fc1a-471f-b7a9-f6fe8c4a7c08-1