Stale Pre-tender

Pre-Market Engagement for the provision of a Payment Processing Gateway

Details

Buyer: Leicester City Council
Topic: Software package and information systems
Published: 8 January 2025
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Leicester City Council are commencing a formal process to obtain market intelligence on offerings in the market on a commercial off the shelf solutions in relation to a Payment Processing Gateway. The Council currently uses the Paygate platform for automating and securely managing the transfer of payment files with the banks. Paygate is hosted on the Council's local servers, in its data centres but its preference is to move to a cloud-based system. The platform facilitates both Direct Debit collections and outgoing payments by securely transmitting files to the bank. Before potentially commencing a formal tender process, the Council is keen to seek market information from organisations that may have an interest or expertise in this field. The information provided will be used to help inform and shape the requirements in our specification.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published8 January 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Leicester City Council buys as a local authority, advertising most opportunities through East Midlands Tenders, its regional supplier portal. Larger contracts appear on Find a Tender instead, where any supplier awarded a contract must also register from April 2026. Some contracts run through outside frameworks, including ESPO and the Government Commercial Agency. Suppliers apply to those bodies directly to become approved framework suppliers. A two-year procurement plan for 2026 to 2028 is published on the council's open data site. Supplier selection also weighs social value, such as local job creation and environmental impact, alongside price.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Leicester City Council's contract awards have been in transport services, construction work and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

48000000 · Software package and information systems

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leicester-city-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leicester-city-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leicester-city-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leicester-city-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leicester-city-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leicester-city-council.gov