Published date: 14 March 2019

Last edited date: 14 March 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 18 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Financial and insurance services - 66000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£72,000

Procurement reference

PROGRESS001-DN398588-71507434

Published date

14 March 2019

Closing date

18 April 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Progress Housing Group are looking to procure services for the collection of payments by debit and credit card in respect of rent, sundry debts and other income due to the Group and associated merchant acquiring services.

Services include:

Collection and processing of card holder not present transactions
• Telephone (via automated service and Virtual Terminal)
• Internet

Cards to be accepted
• Debit cards
• Credit cards

To include the following cards issued in the UK and internationally
 MasterCard
 Visa
 Business and Corporate cards
 Maestro
 Electron
 Contactless

The facility to allow customers to securely save their debit and credit card details "Tokenisation" is a requirement. This facility is currently available for our customers via our automated payment line.

Must be fully compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. Minimum requirements for checking card data for transaction processing is Address Verification service (AVS) and Card Security Code (CSC) checks.

Services required
• Payment Gateway
• Merchant Acquirer services

These can be as part of a combined bid or separate bids for each lot, the Group is looking to appoint one or more supplier to provide these services.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Card Payments and Mercahnt Acquiring Services

  • Opportunity
  • Published 14 March 2019

About the buyer

Contact name

Lindsey Barrow

Address

Sumner House
21 King Street
Leyland
PR25 2LW
England

Telephone

+44 1772450600

Email

lbarrow@progressgroup.org.uk

Website

http://www.progressgroup.org.uk