Official UK procurement notice
Merchant Acquiring · UK public procurement notice
Authority: London Borough of Southwark (Local council)
Sectors: Financial and insurance services (66) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£2,800,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 13 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrs 1 moends 30 Apr 2029 · up to 30 Apr 2031 with extensions · starts 2 Apr 2027
What is being bought
Published requirement description'PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PIPELINE NOTICE - NOT LIVE TENDER OPPORTUNITY - TENDER NOTICE TO FOLLOW'.
The forthcoming opportunity relates to the provision of Merchant Acquiring Services (facilitates the acceptance of debit and credit card payments by managing transaction authorisation, routing through card schemes, and settlement of funds to the organisation)
(Previous pipeline publication was Income and Payment Management Systems, however scope has changed as per the above description)
CPV: Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 May 2025, 21:37 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2026, 09:56 BST
- Authority reference
DN776059- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048456- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052670Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2025 → 2 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published26 May 2025, 21:37 BST
- Latest notice published154 days ago26 May 2026, 09:56 BST
- Tender notice expected105 days ago13 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 156 days2 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 May 2025- Pipeline notice published26 May 2025, 21:37 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published26 May 2026, 09:56 BSTUK1
- Published value published: £2,800,00026 May 2026, 09:56 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender