Notice Information
Notice Title
Merchant Services
Notice Description
Chelmsford 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 1. 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 market place, 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 Barclaycard EPDQ. 2. The supplier must assign individual merchant numbers to each outlet specified by the council, this is currently a total of 29 merchants. oThe supplier must be able to provide new merchant numbers as and when required by the council 3. 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. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Chelmsford:-Financial-and-insurance-services./5ZY2UH8387 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5ZY2UH8387
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: 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
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0527f7
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/052574-2025
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK12 - Procurement Termination Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
-
- CPV Codes
66000000 - Financial and insurance services
66110000 - Banking services
66115000 - International payment transfer services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £800,000 £500K-£1M
- Lots Value
- £800,000 £500K-£1M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 29 Aug 20255 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 15 Jul 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 19 Jan 2026 - 18 May 2027 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Cancelled
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CHELMSFORD CITY COUNCIL
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Vincent Hunt
- Contact Email
- vincent.hunt@chelmsford.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- 07970659846
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CHELMSFORD
- Postcode
- CM1 1JE
- Post Town
- Chelmsford
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH3 Essex
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH36 Heart of Essex
- Delivery Location
- TLH3 Essex
-
- Local Authority
- Chelmsford
- Electoral Ward
- Marconi
- Westminster Constituency
- Chelmsford
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/052574-2025
29th August 2025 - Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028120-2025
28th May 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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