Payments Capability Tender, United Kingdom - 124525460

Procurement Summary

Country: United Kingdom

Summary: Payments Capability

Deadline: 17 Oct 2025

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 124525460

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Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Tender Details

The Tap Converter (TC) service, procured in 2024/25, represents RDG's first step in developing central services to enable travel media agnostic (i.e. ITSO, barcode and cEMV) Pay As You Go (PAYG) on Rail. The Tap Converter is a central rail Account Based Ticketing (ABT) fares engine capable of accepting validation transactions (Taps) generated on rail validation devices (e.g. gates, platform validators and revenue inspection devices) and processing them into the customer journeys, fares and and/or best value cap or products that those Taps represent. The TC is offered as a service that a regional PAYG ticketing solution can integrate with to enable the addition of rail to an existing regional PAYG scheme. In 2025, RDG contracted Tracsis as the supplier of the TC, with initial integrations underway to support PAYG ticketing in both Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) regions. As part of TfGM Phase 1, the TC integration will enable cEMV acceptance on a limited number of rail routes within the Bee Network PAYG ticketing scheme from 2026. The Digital Ticketing Services (DTS) team within RDG shall run the TC as a central rail service, similar to the other industry services such as the ITSO Central Back Office (CBO), Rail Availability and Reservation Service (RARS) and the Passenger Assist (PA) system. In the future, RDG expects to novate the contracts associated with the TC to an appropriate company within Great British Railways (GBR). RDG...

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