Welsh Purchasing Card

The Welsh Procurement Card initiative is similar to the OGC but is available to mainly Welsh Public Sector organisations. This offers both a MasterCard and Visa solution but the MasterCard solution has considerably more programmes.  The uses of this scheme enjoy the benefit of a shared programme and dedicated support for the individual programmes from a team that work for the Welsh Procurement Initiative (WPI) and liaison with the bank is carried out from that team.  Meeting are held with all members of the scheme, the bank and WPI team members.

One the major benefits of operating a scheme such as the WPC is that everyone shares in joint rebates from the bank as the total spend from the scheme counts towards that rebate, so smaller programmes benefit from a higher rebate.

The Office of Government Commence (OGC)

The Office of Government Commence (OGC) has arranged a framework agreement with a number of the card issuing banks (GPC2). This agreement allows Public Sector organisations to select one of the card issuing banks as their supplier of their purchasing card programme without going through a formal tendering process. As this is a framework agreement the financials within the contract are up for negotiation by the card programme with the card-issuing bank.

OGC are currently in the process of vetting its GPC3 framework agreement.