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Merchant Services

Descriptions

Chelmsford City Council would like to issue a tender proposal to secure merchant acquirer services.

 

The supplier is required to provide Merchant Card Acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams where current UK sanctions permit, from the payer, to Chelmsford City Council and Chelmsford City Council Payment Gateways to facilitate Cardholder present and Cardholder not present transactions.

 

The supplier will also need to provide chip and pin terminals where required.

OBJECTIVES

oTo secure value for money services.

oTo provide cost savings.

 

REQUIREMENT

1. Chelmsford City Council wish to process transactions from the following cards: MasterCard (Credit & Debit), Visa (Credit & Debit), Electron, Maestro and Solo. If any additional card issuers enter the marketplace, the Council will discuss their specific requirements in that regard as and when necessary. The Council does not accept

 

American Express cards or Diners Cards. The successful bidder will have to be able to operate with the following gateways: Opayo, Elavon, Worldpay and NMI. The supplier should also be able to provide a gateway service capable of integrating with Microsoft Dynamics, to ensure the supplier can support planned development with this system if required.

 

2. The supplier must assign individual merchant numbers to each outlet specified by the council; this is currently a total of 30 merchants. The supplier must be able to provide new merchant numbers as and when required by the council

 

3. as part of the contract the supplier must be able to supply terminals to the various outlets across the council, the council currently uses 19 terminals.

If a terminal is no longer required by a Council during the course of the contract, the Council must be able to return the device to the Supplier without incurring any further related charges.

 

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7W5RVN5J46

 

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Chelmsford:-Financial-and-insurance-services./7W5RVN5J46

 

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7W5RVN5J46

Timeline

Published Date :

4th Feb 2026 Today

Deadline :

9th Mar 2026 in a 1 month

Contract Start :

25th Jun 2026

Contract End :

26th Jun 2028

Tender Regions

Keywords

loan processing

payment services

banking services

credit services

loan services

risk management

SWIFT transfers

retail banking

business banking

asset protection

investment support

global payment solutions

commercial banking

banking solutions

foreign remittances

insurance coverage

financial consulting

financial transactions

overseas payments

remittance services

global money transfer

pension management

account management

bank account services

cross-border payments

economic advisory

international fund transfer

international wire services

foreign currency transactions

interest-bearing services

Tender Lot Details & Award Criteria

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Workflows

Status :

Open

Procedure :

N/A

Suitable for SME :

N/A

Nationwide :

No

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Tender Progress :

0%

Details

Notice Type :

Tender

Tender Identifier :

IT-378-246-T: 2024 - 001

Tenderbase ID :

310724019

Low Value :

£100K

High Value :

£1000K

Buyer Information

Address :

Liverpool Merseyside , Merseyside , L13 0BQ

Website :

N/A

Procurement Contact

Name :

Tina Smith

Phone :

0151 252 3243

Email :

tina.smith@shared-ed.ac.uk