Merchant Services
Estimated value
£800k
Awarded value
—
Suppliers
0
Lots
1
Published
28 May 2025
Description
Chelmsford City Council would like to issue a tender proposal to secure merchant acquirer services. The supplier is required to provide Merchant Card Acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams where current UK sanctions permit, from the payer, to Chelmsford City Council and Chelmsford City Council Payment Gateways to facilitate Cardholder present and Cardholder not present transactions. The supplier will also need to provide chip and pin terminals where required. Objectives oTo secure value for money services. oTo provide cost savings. REQUIREMENT 1. Chelmsford City Council wish to process transactions from the following cards: MasterCard (Credit & Debit), Visa (Credit & Debit), Electron, Maestro and Solo. If any additional card issuers enter the market place, the Council will discuss their specific requirements in that regard as and when necessary. The Council does not accept American Express cards or Diners Cards. The successful bidder will have to be able to operate with the following gateways: Opayo, Elavon, Worldpay and Barclaycard EPDQ. 2. The supplier must assign individual merchant numbers to each outlet specified by the council, this is currently a total of 29 merchants. oThe supplier must be able to provide new merchant numbers as and when required by the council 3. as part of the contract the supplier must be able to supply terminals to the various outlets across the council, the council currently uses 19 terminals. If a terminal is no longer required by a Council during the course of the contract, the Council must be able to return the device to the Supplier without incurring any further related charges. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Chelmsford:-Financial-and-insurance-services./5ZY2UH8387 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5ZY2UH8387
Scope
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-0527f7
- Total value
- £800,000 excluding VAT£960,000 including VATAbove the relevant threshold
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 19 Jan 2026 to 18 May 2027Possible extension to 18 May 2030
Chelmsford City Council propose to enter into a Contract with the winning Tenderer for a maximum period of 2 years with an option of extending for additional periods of up to 3 years, to give a maximum term of up to 5 years
- Main category
- services
- CPV classifications
- 660000006611000066115000
- Contract locations
- East of England, United Kingdom
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bid Back Financial Cost | — | cost | 40.00% |
| Method Statement Scores | — | quality | 60.00% |
Submission & procedure
- Enquiry deadline
- 02 Jul 2025, 12:00 pm
- Submission deadline
- 15 Jul 2025, 12:00 pm
- Submission address
- https://www.delta-esourcing.com ↗
- Electronic submission
- Yes
- Procedure
- Open procedure