PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

PIN: UK_331 - Trapped Cash Solution (Global Payment Service Provider (PSP))

British Council · published 14 Feb 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID004b2142-c64d-4221-94b9-5a21fc2ff143-826549
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-af5c2410-ad4c-4376-8410-186810c375cc
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-201480
Release typetenderAmendment
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
Not disclosed
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure (above threshold)
Category
services
CPV
66170000
Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Delivery
Not stated
E20 1JQ
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The British Council is seeking to conduct a market engagement with suppliers who can provide Online Payment Acceptance Services in challenging markets, primarily South-East Asia and Africa All our commercial exam operations in all our countries face a currency mismatch - local currency revenue and GBP costs (primarily Exam Board fees). This income is collected from customers in a range of payment journeys: - Where the customer is paying while in an online journey - The customer is paying cash in an office or teaching centre - The customer pays electronically but is not in an online journey British Council is investigating options to engage a specialist payment providers handling the British Council Online Payments across our challenging markets, primarily South-East Asia and Africa. Their service will enable the customer to pay in their local currency for any product and the British Council to receive hard currency in the UK. PIN (Prior Information Notice): https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003654-2025? Additional information: If you are interested in expressing an interest and/or bidding for this project, please go to https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil . You may then have to register your company before you can express an interest for this project and get access the documents. Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

Tender statusactive
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release14 Feb 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published17 Feb 2025
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

No supplier is named in this projection. That does not prove the notice had no supplier in every source version.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 14 Feb 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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