Merchant Acquirer, Equipment and Payment Gateway Services
What the buyer wrote
The Council has an ongoing requirement for Merchant Acquirer and Payment Gateway services (also known as MAS) to allow the Council to accept payments by debit and credit cards. Merchant Acquiring Services are an integral part of the debit and credit card payment transaction process. The services are required to enable merchants and retailers (in this case the Council) to accept card payments, with the acquirer acting as the link between the Council, the card association (e.g. Visa or Mastercard) and the issuing bank for the customer’s payment card. The acquirer collects the card based payments from the issuing bank and credits the Council’s nominated bank account with the customer’s paymen…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Merchant Acquirer, Equipment and Payment Gateway Services
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Framework
- Yes: joining it lets you bid for call-offs without a new tender each time
- Where
- in Scotland
- Kind of work
- Accountancy, audit and financial advice
Who the buyer named
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