Issue - meetings
Award of contract for banking, card acquiring and bill payment services
Meeting: 18/10/2010 - Executive (Item 13)
This report requests authority to award three contracts for the provision of Banking, Card Acquiring and Bill Payment services as required by Contract Standing Order 88. This report summarises the procurement process undertaken by the Council to procure suppliers to provide the services and, following completion of the evaluation of tenders, recommends to whom the contract should be awarded.
Additional documents:
- fcs-banking-app1, item 13 PDF 56 KB
- PINK-fcs-banking-app2 , View reasons restricted (13/3)
- fcs-banking-app3, item 13 PDF 49 KB
- PINK-fcs-banking-app4 , View reasons restricted (13/5)
Decision:
i. that a contract for the provision of banking services be awarded for five years with an optional two year extension to National Westminster Bank Plc, to commence on 1 April 2011;
ii. that the contract for Card Acquiring be awarded for five years three months with an option to extend for two years to National Westminster Bank Plc to commence on 2 January 2011;
iii. that a contract for Bill Payment Services be awarded for five years with an option to extend for two years to allpay Limited to commence on 1 April 2011.
Minutes:
Councillor Butt introduced the report which sought authority to award contracts for the provision of Banking, Card Acquiring and Bill Payment services.
The Executive also had before them appendices 2 and 4 to the report which were not for publication as they contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972:
Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
RESOLVED:-
(i) that a contract for the provision of banking services be awarded for five years with an optional two year extension to National Westminster Bank Plc, to commence on 1 April 2011;
(ii) that the contract for Card Acquiring be awarded for five years three months with an option to extend for two years to National Westminster Bank Plc to commence on 2 January 2011;
(iii) that a contract for Bill Payment Services be awarded for five years with an option to extend for two years to allpay Limited to commence on 1 April 2011.