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The Association of North East Councils Limited

NEPO537 Payments, Appointeeships & Disbursements Services (PADS)

Financial ServicesCPV 72261000
Value£6000.0m
Deadline
Published3 Mar 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
cdpnepoteam@nepo.org

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£6000.0mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£6480.0m

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

NEPO in collaboration with ESPO and YPO are seeking to establish a new solution in relation to the supply of Prepaid, Corporate and Appointeeship payments.

It is envisaged that the solution will comprise four lots: Lot 1 - Prepaid Payments, providing prepaid card accounts that operate like standard debit cards but without an overdraft facility, enabling secure, controlled fund disbursement; Lot 2 - Corporate Payments, offering commercial procurement cards (P-Cards) to streamline purchasing, enhance spend visibility and deliver process efficiencies; Lot 3 - Appointeeship & Deputyship Accounts, designed to manage direct payments, appointee and deputyship programmes, with strong safeguarding, spend controls, and real-time monitoring; Lot 4 - Fund Disbursements, enabling authorities to make high-volume, secure, and instant digital payments for purposes such as grants, payroll, hardship funds, and emergency support.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

NEPO in collaboration with ESPO and YPO

NEPO in collaboration with ESPO and YPO are seeking to establish a new solution in relation to the supply of Prepaid, Corporate and Appointeeship payments.

02

Corporate Payments, offering commercial procurement cards (P-Cards)

Corporate Payments, offering commercial procurement cards (P-Cards) to streamline purchasing, enhance spend visibility and deliver process efficiencies;.

03

Fund Disbursements, enabling authorities to make high-volume

Fund Disbursements, enabling authorities to make high-volume, secure, and instant digital payments for purposes such as grants, payroll, hardship funds, and emergency support.

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

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
018905-2026
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