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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

University of Bristol

Merchant Services 2019 - 2024

Financial ServicesCPV 66000000 66100000 66170000
Value£8.0m
Awarded7 Oct 2018
Published12 Jul 2019
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£8.0mtotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£8.6m

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.

The brief

Merchant services for processing, authorisation and settlement of debit and credit card transactions.

The University is seeking a provider of merchant services for processing, authorisation and settlement of the University's debit and credit transactions via all payment channels including: - customer present (Chip and PIN / contactless payments), - customer not present (mail order / telephone order) and online (e-commerce).

The successful Supplier will be expected to provide a high level availability of the service and add value through an effective support.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The successful Supplier will be expected

The successful Supplier will be expected to provide a high level availability of the service and add value.

02

Through an effective support

through an effective support.

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Source & provenance
OCID
86ed3142-a4ea-4831-ab64-ebd17fb8574b
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
tender_166998/776574
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