Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Glasgow City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Worldpay
- Value
- £960,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Financial & insurance services · Banking services (CPV 66110000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 000385-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Feb 2020
- Published8 Jan 2021Published 316 days after the contract date
Description
Merchant Acquiring Services is an integral part of the debit and credit card payment transaction process. The services are required to enable merchants and retailers (in this case the Council) to accept card payments, with the acquirer acting as the link between the Council, the card association (e.g. Visa or Mastercard) and the issuing bank for the customer’s payment card. The acquirer collects the card based payments from the issuing bank and credits the Council’s nominated bank account with the customer’s payment. The services enable the processing, authorisation and settlement of customer payments by debit and credit card where these have been made to the Council in person, by telephone or online. The Merchant Acquirer is responsible for transferring payment for income streams including Council Tax, Non Domestic Rates and other sundry debt income. The Council requires this service to be provided without interruption as the supplier underpins the collection of income.
About the supplier
Worldpay: every public contract they have won.