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Payment Card Production

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 30163000

Value£85,000

Deadline9 Oct 2026

Published25 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

£85,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline

Published 25 Sept 202611 days leftCloses 9 Oct 2026

Who to contact

procurement@nihe.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

Tenders may only be submitted via the https://etendersni.gov.uk portal.

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£85ktotal contract value

median £95k

this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Office & Computing Equipment band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Northern Ireland Housing Executive has published 268 notices across all categories, and 75% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

The Housing Executive currently collects customer payments through a range of channels including payment outlets, online services, telephone, standing order and Direct Debit.

Swipe card payments continue to be used by the majority of customers when making payments at payment outlets.

Swipe card payments are made using cards issued to customers.

The cards contain a unique payment reference number, encoded on a magnetic stripe and printed on the card, which enables payments made at payment outlets to be automatically allocated to customer accounts.

The Housing Executive requires a Contractor to produce and issue payment cards for Rent Accounts and Sub-Accounts and Leaseholder Charges and Sub-Accounts in accordance with the Specification and Appendix A.

The Contractor will be required to receive bulk and ad hoc card requests, personalise the payment cards and dispatch directly to the customer.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

The Contractor will be required to receive

The Contractor will be required to receive bulk and ad hoc card requests, personalise the payment cards and dispatch directly to the customer.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

5–9 daysof bid-team effort

£3.4k–£6.2kat typical UK bid-team rates

Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the under £100k band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

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