Fintech request for information completed for Gov.UK Pay
Downing Street’s digital payments platform is looking to improve accessibility, including allowing people to pay for services with their own banking app.
The Government Digital Services [GDS] has issued a request for information [RFI] from payment service providers with the aim of procuring open banking technology.
The announcement shows a doubling down on previously confirmed hopes of embedding more fintech solutions into government operations. According to a previous information notice, the department wants to ‘understand the market and service offerings for processing credit and debit card payments and pay-by-bank functionality.’
This latest published n0tice comes around 12 months after GDS’ Deputy Director of Digital Services Platforms, Amanda Dahl, mentioned in a blog post that the organisation wanted to explore the opportunity of open banking technology.
‘Later this year we’ll be investigating how Gov.UK Pay might offer open banking, which means that people will have the option to pay for services conveniently using their own banking app,’ she said, confirming that the platform had onboarded 163 services in the preceding 12 months, including the Forestry Commission and NHS Business Services Authority.
In doing so, these organisations were now able to receive payments digitally, while Recurring Card Payments had also been launched with Kent County Council leading the way. Almost half of all service users are currently local government, with central and devolved administrations, arms length bodies and executive agencies, police forces, NHS trusts and the NHS also onboarded.
The RFI was published last week with a deadline of Monday 23rd September for clarification questions, which will receive responses by the end of Wednesday 25th September. Responses must be received by GDS no later than Wednesday 2nd October 2024.
‘Responses to this RFI will inform a potential future procurement for a payment service provider to underpin the Gov.UK Pay platform, specifically for processing credit and debit card payments and pay by bank (open banking) payments made by end users to services operated by local government, police, the armed forces and some other public sector organisations,’ the RFI states.
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