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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 3 days ago Contract notice

Payment services provider and merchant acquirer for card payments at Cheshire East Borough Council's Car Parks

Open United Kingdom Software & IT systems

Buyer Cheshire East Council

22 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€468,039
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 26 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

26 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 35 days, based on 1,727 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

Cheshire East Borough Council is procuring a combined payment services provider and merchant acquirer to deliver an end to end card payment processing service for its car parking machines across the borough. The successful supplier must support three types of parking payment machines, handling payment processing for all of them throughout Cheshire East.

Description

A tender for the provision of Combined Payment Services/ Merchant acquirer (PSP/MA) for car parking machines across Cheshire East Borough. This requirement is for an end to end payment processing service. The winning bidder must be able to provide Combined Payment Services Provider /Merchant Acquiring for 3 types of parking payment machines across the borough.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €468,039.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Software & IT systems.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    22 days left, 16 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €67,452 and €386,342.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 40 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 3 days ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 904 awards for Software & IT systems in United Kingdom.

This notice
€468,039
Median award
€140,402
Middle half of past awards
€67,452 to €386,342

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Cheshire East Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
40
awards
29
awarded in total
€476,998

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
28
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
11%

Based on 28 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Atamis Ltd 1 Sep 2026
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd 1 Aug 2026
Southern Communications Corporate Solutions Limited 1 Aug 2026

Based on 3 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

4 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 46% of the open notices in Software & IT systems across Europe.

open now in Software & IT systems
3,160
median open notice
€545,827

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Software & IT systems

different companies won awards here
532
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
15%
buyers awarded contracts here
378

Based on 1,027 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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