Service provider to establish payment and merchant account infrastructure.

Home Service provider to establish payment and merchant account infrastructure. Service provider to establish payment and merchant account infrastructure. RFP - Request for proposal Deadline 17-Nov-26 @ 12:59 AM (New York time) 17-Nov-26 @ 12:59 AM (New York time) 27-Oct-26 @ 12:00 AM (New York time) Reference Number UNCDF-00711 Contact Djime Guibril Ndiaye - uncdf.procurement@uncdf.org Djime Guibril Ndiaye - uncdf.procurement@uncdf.org This specific tender is managed via the new supplier portal system of UNDP Quantum. If you are interested in submitting a bid for this tender, you must subscribe following the instructions in the user guide . If you have not registered a profile with this system, you can do so by following the link for Supplier Registration . If you already have a supplier profile, please access the negotiation using quicklink or please login to the Supplier Portal , then search for the negotiation using the reference number UNCDF-00711 , following the instructions in the user guide . Introduction SCOPE OF TENDER 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. Please indicate whether you intend to submit a bid by creating a draft response without submitting directly in the system. This will enable the system to send notifications in case of amendments of the tender requirements. Should you require furthe