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Transport for Greater Manchester

Merchant Acquirer, Payment Gateway, Equipment and Open Banking Service Agreement

Financial ServicesCPV 66100000
Value£19.2m
Deadline25 Aug 2026
Published12 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£19.2mtotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£20.7m

This is a large award for Financial & Insurance Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 8,013 valued Financial & Insurance Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Transport for Greater Manchester ("TfGM") now wish to procure a Merchant Acquirer, Payment Gateway, Equipment and Open Banking Service Agreement ("Agreement") which will enable the Implementation, Operation and Maintenance of a Merchant Acquiring Service, Payment Gateway Service (Option), Merchant Acquiring Equipment (Option), and Open Banking Service (Option) that will support delivery of TfGM's Ticketing Schemes and Revenue Collection.

Given that over the term of the Agreement , TfGM's Ticketing Schemes will be subject to frequent revision and development, re-configuration and extension of the Merchant Acquiring Service, Payment Gateway Service (Option), Merchant Acquiring Equipment (Option), and Open Banking Service (Option) may be required to a number of additional transport and associated modes (in addition to the modes that are currently within the scope of the of existing TfG…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Supplier shall provide a Merchant Acquiring

The Supplier shall provide a Merchant Acquiring Service that shall include the:.

02

Support for the Authority's e-Commerce, Retail, Transit

support for the Authority's e-Commerce, Retail, Transit and Merchant Initiated payment channels, and Card Present and Card Not Present payment methods;.

03

Integration with the Authority's Payment Gateway Services

integration with the Authority's Payment Gateway Services (Supplier provided and other third party) and other issuing banks facilitating Authorisation, Payment and Settlement processes;.

04

Integration with the Transit Back Office (CBMBO

integration with the Transit Back Office (CBMBO Service) via a secure network;.

05

Integration of Equipment with Payment Gateway Services

integration of Equipment with Payment Gateway Services (Supplier and third party provision) and Merchant Acquirer to facilitate Card Present and Card Not Present payment methods;.

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