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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

University of Northumbria at Newcastle

GB-Tyne: T19/0043 Merchant platform

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48440000
Value£500k
Awarded17 May 2021
Published12 Apr 2021
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£500ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

NOTE: This notice was updated on 30 April 2021 for the following reason: 1 week extension of submission date(The University is looking for an experienced merchant platform provider who can securely support our business and work with our teams to resolve issues arising from fraud and mistakes made in the underlying processes.

Whilst we are looking for a provider in first instance, we would like for the relationship to develop as a mutually beneficial partnership.

We expect you to be pro-active, to take ownership of resolving issues and work with us to ensure we continue to have an up to date, secure and easy to use platform, which continues to deliver value for money for the entire agreement term.

We expect you to be authorised to provide card acquiring services in the UK and be subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority.

As we are PCI-DSS compliant, we expect you to demonstrate how you will assist in maintaining this compliance.

Where possible, we want you to provide 3DSecure facility for online payments.)

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

We expect you to be pro-active,

We expect you to be pro-active, to take ownership of resolving issues and work with us to ensure we continue to have an up to date, secure and easy to use platform, which continues to deliver value for money for the entire agreement term.

02

We expect you to be authorised

We expect you to be authorised to provide card acquiring services in the UK and be subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority.

03

As we are PCI-DSS compliant, we expect

As we are PCI-DSS compliant, we expect you to demonstrate how you will assist in maintaining this compliance.

04

Where possible, we want you to provide

Where possible, we want you to provide 3DSecure facility for online payments.).

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