Official UK procurement notice
Merchant Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Liverpool Experience Campus Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionACC Liverpool Group (ACCL) is looking to award a contract for merchant services for payment processing. The awarded supplier is offering ACCL a full-service payment solution that is integrated within existing systems that are already supplied to ACCL.
This notice is to indicate that ACCL intends to make a direct award. This notice also commences an 8-working day standstill period which will end at midnight at the end of Tuesday 7th October 2025.
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Sept 2025, 14:05 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Sept 2025, 14:05 BST
- Authority reference
TT000157- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-060170- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a343Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
The justification for the direct award is as per the Procurement Act 2023, Schedule 5, point 7:
The public contract concerns the supply of goods, services or works by the existing supplier which are intended as an extension to, or partial replacement of, existing goods, services or works in circumstances where
(a) a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from, or incompatible with, the existing goods, services or works, and
(b) the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 26 Sept 2025- Transparency notice published26 Sept 2025, 14:05 BSTUK5
- Contract signature expected10 Oct 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AudienceView Ticketing Corporation1 Nov 2025 – 30 Jun 2027 · up to 30 Jun 2029Extensions: ACCL may extend the contract for an additional 2-year period to 30th June 2029. The contract value includes any extension periods that ACCL may utilise. | £730,000 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- AudienceView Ticketing (UK) LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender