Expired contract

Merchant Services 2019 - 2024

Details

Supplier(s)
GPUK LLP
Value
£6,000,000
Duration
7 years
Topic
Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Published
12 July 2019

Tender description

Merchant services for processing, authorisation and settlement of debit and credit card transactions. The University is seeking a provider of merchant services for processing, authorisation and settlement of the University's debit and credit transactions via all payment channels including: - customer present (Chip and PIN / contactless payments), - customer not present (mail order / telephone order) and online (e-commerce). The successful Supplier will be expected to provide a high level availability of the service and add value through an effective support.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date5 March 2019
  2. Completed: Award published12 July 2019
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2026

About the buyer

University of Bristol is a higher education institution that buys through its own procurement team. Suppliers register on the university's e-tendering portal at tenders.bris.ac.uk to view and bid for opportunities. Contract notices appear on Contracts Finder to reach a wider pool of bidders. Much of this procurement flows through frameworks from the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium and the Crown Commercial Service. Category teams advise faculties and divisions on purchases before tenders are issued. Tenders are issued directly when no suitable framework applies. The procurement team is an active member of the Higher Education Procurement Association.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Bristol's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, transport equipment and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 66172000 · Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services

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