Online Payments
This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.
The EA invites tenders for a Provision of an Online Payment Solution.
The scope of this procurement is to provide an accessible, secure Online Payment Solution (OLP) for schools, minimising the need for and risks and costs associated with cash handling in these schools.
The legacy process of schools receiving monies from parents is one that involves sending cash or cheques with pupils to school.
Payments cover a range of items and activities e.g. school meals, milk, school trips, clubs, and equipment purchase.
The OLP system will facilite usage by parents to pay for a range of activities for the duration of the Contract.
The Contract will be valid for a period of five years, with the option to extend for period / s up to 24 months, subject to funding.
At the time of tender issue (June 2026) there is no formal EA wide contract to provide online payment facilities to the schools by the EA,…
What the supplier must deliver
The scope of this procurement is
The scope of this procurement is to provide an accessible, secure Online Payment Solution (OLP) for schools, minimising the need for and risks and costs associated with cash handling in these schools.
At the time of tender issue (June
At the time of tender issue (June 2026) there is no formal EA wide contract to provide online payment facilities to the schools by the EA, however, some schools have independently procured and implemented their own solutions over recent years.
At some point during the life
At some point during the life of the Contract these bodies may wish to utilise the Contract (though they are not obligated to do so) and must have access, at any point, with the permission of EA.
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