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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ipswich Borough Council

Merchant Acquirer Services for Ipswich Borough Council, St Edmundsbury Borough Council and Forest Heath District Council

Financial ServicesCPV 66000000
Value£103k
Awarded18 Nov 2015
Published15 Oct 2015
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£103ktotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£4.7m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Financial & Insurance Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 8,013 valued Financial & Insurance Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Ipswich Borough Council, St Edmundsbury Borough Council and Forest Heath District Council (‘The Councils’) have come together collaboratively to issue a tender proposal to individually secure merchant acquirer services.

Ipswich Borough Council is running the procurement process on behalf of itself and St Edmundsbury Borough Council and Forest Heath District Council.

Ipswich Borough Council is not operating as a central purchasing body in this procurement.

For the avoidance of doubt, the successful bidder will enter in to individual contracts with each of the Councils.

The duration of the individual contracts will be three years plus will include a possibility for extension by the relevant Council for up to an additional two years maximum.

The services will involve the processing of a variety of types of payment cards which are accepted by any one of the Councils and will include the provision of chip and pin machines if required.

PCI DSS compliance is a minimum requirement and candidates that do not meet this requirement will be excluded.

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