Service provider to establish payment and merchant account infrastructure.
Summary
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Overview
Service provider to establish payment and merchant account infrastructure for the MSME Digital Gateway, including integration with regulated payment systems, onboarding of merchants, and testing a credit product under live market conditions. Proposals are sought from fintechs, financial services providers and ICT/system integrators with payments integration, merchant onboarding, regulatory/compliance and credit-underwriting capabilities.
Requirements
- Proven capability to integrate regulated payment infrastructure into a digital gateway with payments, settlements and reconciliation.
- Experience onboarding merchants and establishing formal merchant accounts; ability to pilot with a cohort of 100 enterprises.
- Ability to document merchant needs in the field and feed findings into the Gateway roadmap.
- Capacity to design and test a credit product using gateway and payment data, underwritten risk for a live pilot.
- Ability to generate scale-up evidence to support expansion toward 25,000 enterprises, including data collection, reporting and impact assessment.
How to Apply
- Deadline: 2026-11-17 05:59.
- Submission method: Not specified in metadata; refer to the UNCDF Quantum portal for submission instructions; inquiries to uncdf.procurement@uncdf.org.
- Documents to submit: Prepare a technical and financial proposal addressing the objectives; note that no bid documents are attached in this dataset; obtain the official bid documents from the UNCDF Quantum portal.
- Pre-qualifications/registrations: Not specified in metadata; check portal.
- Briefing session: Not specified.
- Where to obtain bid documents: UNCDF/UNDP Quantum portal (no attached documents in dataset).
Service provider to establish payment and merchant account infrastructure. The primary objective of this assignment is to establish, at controlled scale and under live market conditions, the payment and merchant account infrastructure that enables the MSME Digital Gateway to operate as a transactional platform, and to test whether the transaction record it generates can originate credit. Specifically, the assignment seeks to: • Integrate payment infrastructure: Integrate regulated payment infrastructure into the Gateway so that enterprises can be paid, and payments confirmed, settled and reconciled. • Onboard merchants: Identify the enterprise segments most likely to adopt and transact, and establish formal merchant accounts for a cohort of 100 enterprises. • Document enterprise needs: Document in the field what participating enterprises require, and submit those findings to the Gateway roadmap. • Test a credit product: Design and test a credit product underwritten on Gateway and payment data, advancing a first cohort at the service provider’s own risk. • Generate scale-up evidence: Generate the transaction and repayment evidence on which UNCDF, UNDP, GEA and GI-KACE can determine whether and how to scale toward the 25,000 enterprise objective. Search for the specific tender using search filters and subscribe to the tender in order to get notifications in case of amendments of the tender document. If you need support with the online system, you can contact the contact details of this tender as indicated in the solicitation document. UNCDF PROCUREMENT TEAM Documents available on UNDP Quantum portal: https://undp.sharepoint.com/sites/Docs-Public/Procurement/Forms/AllItems.aspx?env=Embedded&isAscending=false&FilterType1=Text&sortField=Modified&FilterField1=NegotiationNumber&FilterValue1=UNCDF-00711
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