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Merchant Acquirer, Equipment and Payment Gateway Services

Banking services
Scotland (UKM82)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Glasgow City Council: "Merchant Acquirer, Equipment and Payment Gateway Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityGlasgow City CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Glasgow City Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Glasgow City Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.7Bids / Report
21.5% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 97 active published awards; 93 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityGlasgow City Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published8 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
Last source update8 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationBanking services
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM82)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0288d5
What is being bought
The Council has an ongoing requirement for Merchant Acquirer and Payment Gateway services (also known as MAS) to allow the Council to accept payments by debit and credit cards. Merchant Acquiring Services are an integral part of the debit and credit card payment transaction process. The services are required to enable merchants and retailers (in this case the Council) to accept card payments, with the acquirer acting as the link between the Council, the card association (e.g. Visa or Mastercard) and the issuing bank for the customer’s payment card. The acquirer collects the card based payments from the issuing bank and credits the Council’s nominated bank account with the customer’s payment. The services enable the processing, authorisation and settlement of customer payments by debit and credit card where these have been made to the Council in person, by telephone or online. The Merchant Acquirer is responsible for transferring payment for income streams including Council Tax, Non Domestic Rates and other sundry debt income. The Council requires this service to be provided without interruption as the supplier underpins the collection of income.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    8 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    8 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    8 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Merchant Acquiring Services is an integral part of the debit and credit card payment transaction process. The services are required to enable merchants and retailers (in this case the Council) to accept card payments, with the acquirer acting as the link between the Council, the card association (e.g. Visa or Mastercard) and the issuing bank for the customer’s payment card. The acquirer collects the card based payments from the issuing bank and credits the Council’s nominated bank account with the customer’s payment. The services enable the processing, authorisation and settlement of customer payments by debit and credit card where these have been made to the Council in person, by telephone or online. The Merchant Acquirer is responsible for transferring payment for income streams including Council Tax, Non Domestic Rates and other sundry debt income. The Council requires this service to be provided without interruption as the supplier underpins the collection of income.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    8 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
  2. Award unsuccessful
    Not published · Not published
  3. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  4. Contract active
    Signed 27 Feb 2020, 00:00 GMT · £960,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Awarded supplier not published
Not published · Not published · unsuccessful
Worldpay
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£960,000 · signed 27 Feb 2020, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
electronicBids: 0 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromEU: 0 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromNonEU: 0 (lot 1)
smeBids: 0 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Glasgow City Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-203
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Documents (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleDue to GCC's inhouse project to deliver a new Income Management System which is interlinked to and will not function without MAS to support the secure transfer of payments and refunds between the Council and the card user. Also the council's system for parking and bus lane fines requires to be supported by an agreed list of MAS providers as stipulated by the system supplier.