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
- The City of Edinburgh Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Barclaycard payments
- Value
- £1,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Financial & insurance services · Processing and clearing services (CPV 66133000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 075457-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Nov 2025
- Published20 Nov 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Provision of Merchant Service Payment Gateway and face to face Chip and PIN terminals to take credit and debit payment on behalf of the Council across multiple of the Council's key systems. Barclaycard currently provide the infrastructure to take credit and debit card payments on behalf of the Council. This service is required to integrate within nine payment platforms. Historically a migration has incurred GBP200,000 of costs and taken 12 months and an incoming provided would be expected to absorb this.
About the supplier
Barclaycard payments: every public contract they have won.