Merchant Services

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    "id": "GB-PPON-PYRZ-1467-WNJW",
    "name": "Chelmsford City Council"
  },
  "date": "2026-02-04T12:07:16Z",
  "id": "009925-2026",
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    {
      "address": {
        "country": "GB",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Chelmsford",
        "postalCode": "CM1 1JE",
        "region": "UKH36",
        "streetAddress": "Civic Centre, Duke Street"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "harrison.crick@chelmsford.gov.uk",
        "name": "Harrison Crick",
        "telephone": "01245606777"
      },
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    "awardPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2026-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
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    "description": "Chelmsford City Council would like to issue a tender proposal to secure merchant acquirer services. \nThe supplier is required to provide Merchant Card Acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams where current UK sanctions permit, from the payer, to Chelmsford City Council and Chelmsford City Council Payment Gateways to facilitate Cardholder present and Cardholder not present transactions.\nThe supplier will also need to provide chip and pin terminals where required.\nOBJECTIVES\noTo secure value for money services.\noTo provide cost savings.\nREQUIREMENT\n1. Chelmsford City Council wish to process transactions from the following cards: MasterCard (Credit \u0026 Debit), Visa (Credit \u0026 Debit), Electron, Maestro and Solo. If any additional card issuers enter the marketplace, the Council will discuss their specific requirements in that regard as and when necessary. The Council does not accept \nAmerican Express cards or Diners Cards. The successful bidder will have to be able to operate with the following gateways: Opayo, Elavon, Worldpay and NMI. The supplier should also be able to provide a gateway service capable of integrating with Microsoft Dynamics, to ensure the supplier can support planned development with this system if required.\n2. The supplier must assign individual merchant numbers to each outlet specified by the council; this is currently a total of 30 merchants. The supplier must be able to provide new merchant numbers as and when required by the council\n3. as part of the contract the supplier must be able to supply terminals to the various outlets across the council, the council currently uses 19 terminals.\nIf a terminal is no longer required by a Council during the course of the contract, the Council must be able to return the device to the Supplier without incurring any further related charges.\nTo respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7W5RVN5J46\nFor more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: \nhttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Chelmsford:-Financial-and-insurance-services./7W5RVN5J46\nTo respond to this opportunity, please click here: \nhttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7W5RVN5J46",
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    "enquiryPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2026-02-24T12:00:00+00:00"
    },
    "id": "CCC/2026/MERCHANT",
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            "description": "Banking services",
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          {
            "description": "International payment transfer services",
            "id": "66115000",
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          "description": "Chelmsford City Council propose to enter into a Contract with the winning Tenderer for a maximum period of 2 years with an option of extending for additional periods of up to 3 years, to give a maximum term of up to 5 years"
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    "procurementMethod": "open",
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      "endDate": "2026-03-09T12:00:00+00:00"
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}