Banking services

Tender description

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 framework agreement will comprise of the following lots: Lot 1: Face to face and CNP card acquiring, Gateway and APM services; Lot 2: CNP only card acquiring, gateway and APM services; Lot 3: CNP and face to face acquiring services; Lot 4: CNP and face to face gateway and APM services; Lot 5: Payment initiation service providers; Lot 6: Face to face and CNP aggregated payment acceptance service; Lot 7: Payment consulting services. Bidders have the opportunity to bid for all or any combination of the lots. The full specification is set out in framework Schedule 1 (Specification), in the invitation to tender documents attached to the BravoSolution eSourcing suite. A 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 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. It is envisaged that a framework agreement will be awarded to 8 suppliers for this lot. 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 8th position. 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. It is envisaged that a framework agreement will be awarded to 8 suppliers for this lot. 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 8th position. A 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 face to face and CNP transactions, and — the provision of fraud and risk management core services, standard online and mobile card security services and transactional payment risk management. It is envisaged that a framework agreement will be awarded to 8 suppliers for this lot. 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 3 is 8th position. A multi-supplier lot across all UK public sector bodies to provide services including as a minimum: — 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. It is envisaged that a framework agreement will be awarded to 8 suppliers for this lot. 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 4 is 8th position. A multi-supplier lot across all UK public sector bodies to provide services including: — the provision of a mechanism to enable payers to connect to their own Bank Account or Bank Accounts (operated by account servicing payment service providers – ASPSPs) to make e-Commerce payments to buyers via websites or other digital platforms and other channels. It is envisaged that a framework agreement will be awarded to 10 suppliers for this lot. 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 5 is 10th position. Lot 6 is single supplier online solution lot across UK public sector bodies of no greater level than 3 or 4 PCI DSS, 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 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. Lot 6 will be awarded to a single supplier as a result of the eAuction as documented in the ITT. A multi-supplier lot across all UK public sector bodies to provide services including as a minimum: — specialist payment acceptance and payment issuance consultancy services throughout the United Kingdom to contracting authorities to help central government (CG) and the Wider Public Sector (WPS) customers define their payment requirements, their scope and intended outcomes. Making it easier to scope their requirements for further competitions in a clear and transparent way. It is envisaged that a framework agreement will be awarded to 10 suppliers for this lot. 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 7 is 10th position.