Payment Platform - Early Market Engagement

The University of Lincoln (UoL) is seeking expressions of interests from organisations that can provide a payment gateway or platform to facilitate online payments. UoL currently use WPM who provide a number of different pathways including an online shop for products, events and short-courses, integration into our Library System (Capita Chorus) to allow the payment of library fines, integration into our accommodation system (Occam - Room Service) to allow the payment of accommodation fees via recurring card payments.

Recurring card payments are also taken for tuition fees and other items. There is also a payment pathway to allow invoice payments.

Student payments and invoice payments contain validation against student number / invoice number. UoL is also interested in allowing payments by direct debit, which we would envisage replacing recurring card payments.

Last year 21,000 transactions were processed with an income of £14.8 million. UoL has existing agreements with a Payment Services Provider (Realex) and Card Acquirer (Global Payments) which ideally we intend to maintain. The type of organisation that we would look to work with would have a fully developed product, experience and track record of proving payment gateway solutions, reference sites and be able to evidence PCI compliance.