Merchant Services for Mass Transit Transactions
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
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Procurement
- 66172000 Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
- 66170000 Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
- 66100000 Banking and investment services
- 66110000 Banking services
What happened
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport awarded this contract to U.S. Bank Europe DAC trading as Elavon Merchant Services (Elavon). worth £822,000 on 5 Jan 2026.
Description
SPT has a requirement to procure merchant services for Mass Transit Transactions. The contractor must have an existing integration with Visa Platform Connect (VPC) https://www.visaacceptance.com/en-gb/solutions/connector-tools/visa-platform-connect.html to ensure seamless integration with the S&B systems.
The Subway entry/exit gates are supplied by Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH (S&B) of Moenchengladbach, Germany. S&B will be supplying the contactless payment Account Based Ticketing (ABT) solution through their Fare Go Open Payments platform utilising Visa Platform Connect transaction handling.
Additional information
SPT will not accept any bid where the level of sub-contracted services exceeds 50%, and the bidder then effectively becomes a management company and has limited direct control over the entity/entities undertaking the services. Please confirm below in your response to 4C.10 that you as the Bidder will be undertaking in excess of 50% of the required services and provide a breakdown of this.
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