Provision of Merchant Service Payment Gateway and Payment Devices

Location

Edinburgh

Description

The City of Edinburgh Council has a requirement for the provision of Merchant Service Gateway and Payment Devices to facilitate face to face Chip and PIN terminals to take credit and debit payment on behalf of the Council.

Total Quantity or Scope

Provision of Merchant Service Payment Gateway and face to face Chip and PIN terminals to take credit and debit payment on behalf of the Council across multiple of the Council's key systems. Barclaycard currently provide the infrastructure to take credit and debit card payments on behalf of the Council. This service is required to integrate within nine payment platforms. Historically a migration has incurred GBP200,000 of costs and taken 12 months and an incoming provided would be expected to absorb this.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

Contract period of 3 years

CPV Codes

• 66133000 - Processing and clearing services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Legal Justification

Due to the nature and scale of this requirement installations of both hardware and software due to a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire suppliers having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility and disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance due the required integration with nine different platforms.

Other Information

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