The Provision of a Cashless Catering System

Description

Caerphilly County Borough Council awarded a contract to a single supplier to provide a Cashless Catering system which will be deployed in Comprehensive schools, primary schools and corporate buildings. The contract includes for the provision of hardware and software and ongoing maintenance and support for the contract duration. The scope of the initial piece of work is to: - Replace till systems and dated cashless systems in up to 9 Secondary Schools capable of accepting cashless, contactless payment, online payments, mobile phone payments, or cash payments. - A rolling programme will need to be planned to meet the LA need to install a cashless solution in all primary, secondary schools, Meals Direct and Staff & Civic catering. - Put in place a web-based portal that will allow parents to create accounts for their children and credit money into the account. - Link on-line accounts to the system to ensure that money from meal transactions is coded to the correct accounts. - Provide a process to allow for the acceptance of cash and cashless payments and allow the till system to be updated with Free School Meal allowances.