Electronic Payment Systems

Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. Collectively our Members manage more than 75% of UK’ social housing stock, with PfH helping them to achieve efficiency savings using a wide range of services including framework agreements, dynamic purchasing systems, spend analyses, strategy reviews, consolidated billing and comprehensive reporting. PfH is a contracting authority under Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR 2015”) and a central purchasing body under regulation 37 PCR 2015. Please refer to www.pfh.co.uk for additional information. PfH is administered by Inprova Limited and is headquartered in the North West of England with over 20 years of expertise and experience offering a complete procurement solutions package across outsourcing, technology and consultancy. By integrating procurement services and technology, Inprova operates as a delivery partner, supporting business performance improvement for the public sector. The purpose of this new framework agreement (“this Framework Agreement”) is to ensure we can provide an offering suitable for members of PfH in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and other public bodies permitted to use this Framework Agreement who require the provision of Electronic Payment Systems. Procurement for Housing has conducted the necessary pre-market engagement activities to develop this Framework Agreement to meet the immediate and future requirements of PfH members. The Framework will be divided into seven (7) Lots as: Lot 1 - Multiple Network Managed Services Lot 2 - Single Network Managed Services Lot 3 - Cash In Soluions Lot 4 - Outbound Payments - Prepaid Cards Lot 5 - Vouchers Lot 6 - Open Banking Services - Payment Initiation Services Lot 7 - Debt Solutions - Assessments Each Lot permits the provision of associated services.