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University of Cumbria

Merchant Services - AWARD

Financial ServicesCPV 66000000 66100000 66150000 66151000
Value£91k
Awarded19 Jan 2017
Published29 Mar 2017
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£91ktotal 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

The University's current contract for merchant services is due to expire and tenders are being invited for a new contract to commence in May 2017.

This tender is 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
e24e42c9-d363-43cb-add4-f86a38875bd1
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
17-006 S/FIN - AWARD
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