Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-10-14
Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 66110000 | 66133000 | 66170000 | 66172000 | 79412000
Estimated value: 450000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-11-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service as the Authority is seeking to establish a Pan Government Agreement for the provision of payment acceptance service to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies as identified at VI.3) of this notice.
The full specification is set out in framework Schedule 1 (Specification), in the invitation to tender documents attached to the BravoSolution eSourcing suite.
— the provision of merchant card acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams, from the payer, from traditional, new and existing payment cards, to buyers to facilitate face to face and CNP transactions;
— the provision of merchant card acquiring equipment, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams, from the payer, from traditional, new and existing payment cards, to buyers to facilitate cardholder present and cardholder not present transactions,
— the provision of payment gateway services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams, including e-Commerce online payments, from the payer, from payment cards and from alternative payment methods (APMs), to buyers, and
— the provision of fraud and risk management core services, standard online and mobile card security services and transactional payment risk management.
The maximum number of bidders for this lot may increase where 2 or more bidders have tied scores in last position. We also reserve the right to award a framework to any bidder whose final score is within 1 % of the last position for each lot. The last position for lot 1 is 8
The framework term is for an initial period of thirty six (36) months, with the option to extend for a further twelve (12) month period.
An e-Commerce multi-supplier lot across all UK public sector bodies to provide services including as a minimum:
— the provision of merchant card acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams, from the payer, from traditional, new and existing payment cards, to buyers to facilitate CNP transactions,
— the provision of payment gateway services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams, for e-Commerce online payments, from the payer, from payment cards and from alternative payment methods (APMs), to buyers, and
— the provision of fraud and risk management core services, standard online and mobile card security services and transactional payment risk management.
The maximum number of bidders for this lot may increase where 2 or more bidders have tied scores in last position. We also reserve the right to award a framework to any bidder whose final score is within 1 % of the last position for each lot. The last position for lot 2 is 8
The framework term is for an initial period of thirty six (36) months, with the option to extend for a further twelve (12) month period.
— the provision of merchant card acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams, from the payer, from traditional, new and existing payment cards, to buyers to facilitate face to face and CNP transactions, and

Eligibility requirements: Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an invitation to tender (ITT) registering for access.

Award value: 450000000