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the Education Authority

Online Payments

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£15.0m
Deadline14 Aug 2026
Published18 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£15.0mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£16.2m

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.

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The brief

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,…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

Source & provenance
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