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KENT COUNTY COUNCIL

Library Customer Self Service- Kiosks and RFID Provision

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 30000000
Value£514k
Awarded15 Dec 2023
Published7 Jan 2025
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£514ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This is a large award for Office & Computing Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Kent Libraries currently use 110 kiosks across 40 library sites.

The Kiosks are used for issue, return and renewal of items, via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) coding tags.

23 of the 110 kiosks also provide chip and pin and contactless payment for library services and provide access to Netloan, which allows users to book onto public access PCs and release printing.

All of this was introduced to make things easier for customers to complete basic transactions, reduce queues at staff desks, give staff more time to focus on customer engagement and when introduced in 2016 enabled the service to reduce staffing levels and achieve MTFP savings.

Due to the current kiosks coming near to end of life, upgraded kiosks are required.

Kent County Council requires the following: - A revised and reduced number of 88 Self-Service Kiosks with facility to take payment via coin, notes, credit/debit and contactless, - The new kiosks will be implemented across Kent libraries using a phased approach. - The chosen solution must comply with the following: • To comply with KCC ICT systems security requirements, any solution must be PCI-DSS (credit card) and PAD-DSS (RFID device) compliant. • Hold ISO/IEC 27001 - Information Security Management accreditation. - The disposal of the current 110 outdated kiosks.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

23 of the 110 kiosks also provide

23 of the 110 kiosks also provide chip and pin and contactless payment for library services and provide access to Netloan, which allows users to book onto public access PCs and release printing.

02

The chosen solution must comply with

The chosen solution must comply with the following:.

03

To comply with KCC ICT systems security

To comply with KCC ICT systems security requirements, any solution must be PCI-DSS (credit card) and PAD-DSS (RFID device) compliant.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 1 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

PCI DSSsays mustCertification & assessment schemes
To comply with KCC ICT systems security requirements, any solution must be PCI-DSS (credit card) and PAD-DSS (RFID device) compliant.
ISO 27001 (information security)Standards you certify to
Hold ISO/IEC 27001 - Information Security Management accreditation.

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