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# Payments, Appointeeships and Disbursement Services (PADS)

[The Association of North East Councils Limited](https://tendernation.io/buyers/the-association-of-north-east-councils-limited)

Estimated value

Not stated

Published

19 Nov 2025

Deadline

Rolling deadline

## Who can bid

- Sets up a framework

    Winning a place does not guarantee work: contracts are awarded later as call-offs, and the list usually stays closed for years.
- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

## About this tender

NEPO in collaboration with ESPO and YPO are seeking to establish a new solution in relation to the supply of Prepaid, Corporate and Appointee payments.

It is envisaged that the solution will comprise four lots:

- Lot 1 Prepaid Payments, providing prepaid card accounts that operate like standard debit cards but without an overdraft facility, enabling secure, controlled fund disbursement;
- Lot 2 Corporate Payments, offering commercial procurement cards (P-Cards) to streamline purchasing, enhance spend visibility and deliver process efficiencies;
- Lot 3 Appointeeship & Deputyship Payments, designed to manage direct payments, appointee and deputyship programmes, with strong safeguarding, spend controls, and real-time monitoring;
- Lot 4 Digital Pay Out Services, enabling authorities to make high-volume, secure, and instant digital payments for purposes such as grants, payroll, hardship funds, and emergency support.

•NEPO is a Centralised Procurement Authority as defined in the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23), providing central purchasing activity on behalf of Contracting Authorities.

•The agreement will be available to NEPO Member Authorities and all current and future Associate Members. Current Associate Members are listed in the Associate Member section of the NEPO website at: [nepo.org/associate-members](https://www.nepo.org/associate-members)

•NEPO intends to make the agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the UK (as defined by the Procurement Act 2023).

•A list of permissible users available at: [nepo.org](http://www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissible-users)

•Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. Further information can be found at: [nepo.org](https://www.nepo.org)

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## CPV classification

Magnetic cards Financial information systems Financial and insurance services

Source

Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-05e477-2025-11-19T14:05:15Z

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