Official UK procurement notice
Merchant Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Chelmsford City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionChelmsford City Council would like to issue a tender proposal to secure merchant acquirer services.
The supplier is required to provide Merchant Card Acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams where current UK sanctions permit, from the payer, to Chelmsford City Council and Chelmsford City Council Payment Gateways to facilitate Cardholder present and Cardholder not present transactions.
The supplier will also need to provide chip and pin terminals where required.
OBJECTIVES
oTo secure value for money services.
oTo provide cost savings.
REQUIREMENT
- Chelmsford City Council wish to process transactions from the following cards: MasterCard (Credit & Debit), Visa (Credit & Debit), Electron, Maestro and Solo. If any additional card issuers enter the marketplace, the Council will discuss their specific requirements in that regard as and when necessary. The Council does not accept
American Express cards or Diners Cards. The successful bidder will have to be able to operate with the following gateways: Opayo, Elavon, Worldpay and NMI. The supplier should also be able to provide a gateway service capable of integrating with Microsoft Dynamics, to ensure the supplier can support planned development with this system if required.
- The supplier must assign individual merchant numbers to each outlet specified by the council; this is currently a total of 30 merchants. The supplier must be able to provide new merchant numbers as and when required by the council
- as part of the contract the supplier must be able to supply terminals to the various outlets across the council, the council currently uses 19 terminals.
If a terminal is no longer required by a Council during the course of the contract, the Council must be able to return the device to the Supplier without incurring any further related charges.
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CPV: Banking services · Financial and insurance services · International payment transfer services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£800,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Method Statement Scores: 60%
- Bid Back Financial Cost: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Bid Back Financial Cost
- Method Statement Scores
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 May 2026, 16:34 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 20 Mar 2026
- Authority reference
CCC/2026/MERCHANT- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-009925- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0646cbFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 9 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 24 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
4 Feb 2026 → 26 Jun 2026 · 8 dates- Tender notice published264 days ago4 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT
- Clarification questions by244 days ago24 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline231 days ago9 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by220 days ago20 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Assessment summaries sent174 days ago6 May 2026, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published173 days ago6 May 2026, 16:34 BST
- Standstill ends164 days ago15 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts123 days ago26 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 Feb 2026- Tender notice published4 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMTUK4
- Contract award notice published6 May 2026, 16:34 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete6 May 2026, 16:34 BST
- Contract signature expected22 May 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barclays22 May 2026 – 21 May 2028 · up to 21 May 2031Extensions: Chelmsford City Council propose to enter into a Contract with the winning Tenderer for a maximum period of 2 years with an option of extending for additional periods of up to 3 years, to give a maximum term of up to 5 years | £800,000 | 6 May 2026standstill to 15 May 2026 | Standstill |
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5final-stage tenders | 1 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Barclays Bank PlcAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender