Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of Merchant Service Payment Gateway and Payment Devices
Notice Description
The City of Edinburgh Council has a requirement for the provision of Merchant Service Gateway and Payment Devices to facilitate face to face Chip and PIN terminals to take credit and debit payment on behalf of the Council.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Provision of Merchant Service Payment Gateway and face to face Chip and PIN terminals to take credit and debit payment on behalf of the Council across multiple of the Council's key systems. Barclaycard currently provide the infrastructure to take credit and debit card payments on behalf of the Council. This service is required to integrate within nine payment platforms. Historically a migration has incurred GBP200,000 of costs and taken 12 months and an incoming provided would be expected to absorb this.
Options: Contract period of 3 years
Procurement Information
Due to the nature and scale of this requirement installations of both hardware and software due to a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire suppliers having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility and disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance due the required integration with nine different platforms.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05e4eb
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/075457-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
-
- CPV Codes
66133000 - Processing and clearing services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,500,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 20 Nov 20253 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 19 Nov 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Stephen Forfar
- Contact Email
- stephen.forfar@edinburgh.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1314693922
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH8 8BG
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM75 City of Edinburgh
-
- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- City Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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