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ClosedStage · tender

University of the West of England

006/2022T Card Acquiring

Financial ServicesCPV 66100000
Value£2.5m
Deadline29 Apr 2022
Published21 Mar 2022
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 21 Mar 2022ClosedCloses 29 Apr 2022
Who to contact
Helen Baker
purchasing@uwe.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.5mtotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£4.7m

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

The University of the West of England is going out to tender for the provision 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 University is seeking to develop efficient and cost-effective merchant service arrangements which will be capable of meeting future market and technological changes, and which will meet, and often exceed, user expectations.

It is looking for a relationship with an organisation which it can be confident will fulfil all the University’s current and future requirements.

It is important that any potential acquiring partner can add value through an effective dedicated corporate support team backed up by a proactive education sector specialist Relationship Manager.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The University is seeking to develop efficient

The University is seeking to develop efficient and cost-effective merchant service arrangements which will be capable of meeting future market and technological changes, and which will meet, and often exceed, user expectations.

02

It is important that any potential acquiring

It is important that any potential acquiring partner can add value through an effective dedicated corporate support team backed up by a proactive education sector specialist Relationship Manager.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03245d
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
007619-2022
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