Electronic Payment Services 2027-2031
- Buyer
- Northern Housing Consortium Ltd
- Value
- £130,000,000
- Closes
- 27 January 2027
- Where
- Sunderland, the North East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Northern Housing Consortium is setting up a framework agreement, a pre-approved list of suppliers, for electronic payment services that its members and other eligible public bodies can buy from. The estimated total value is £130 million over the 2027 to 2031 period. The framework covers ways of taking, processing and paying out money electronically, such as card payments, Direct Debits, online payments and open banking.
What the buyer wants
• Provide electronic payment services, such as card and debit payments, Direct Debits, online payments, barcodes, Pay by Bank/Open Banking, and disbursement (paying money out) services. • Supply supporting software, management information platforms, payment orchestration (routing payments through a central system) and agent-assisted payment platforms. • Meet the technical, regulatory, security and service requirements that apply to the services they provide.
Requirements
What could rule a small business out: The notice does not set out turnover, insurance or certification thresholds, but its scale (£130 million across a four-year framework open to multiple member organisations) and its requirement for suppliers to meet all relevant technical, regulatory and security standards would likely rule out most small businesses unless they are specialist payment providers or part of a larger group.
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How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
Where to apply
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Questions about this tender? The official notice gives the buyer's contact.
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