Cloud-Hosted Unified Student Payment Platform

The issuing agency is seeking a secure, cloud-hosted, enterprise-grade payment platform that consolidates in-scope student payment streams into one integrated solution. The agency needs to solve the challenges of student confusion, failed payments, and high volumes of support inquiries. The platform must manage both domestic and international payment scenarios while supporting tuition payments, Continuing Education fees, application fee payments, and My Trade Secrets apprenticeship payments. The scope of work covers providing refunds, reconciliation, reporting, and audit trails. The solution must integrate with the college's Anthology environment for account lookup, payment posting, payment status updates, reconciliation data, reporting, and audit requirements. The agency requires mobile responsiveness, accessibility compliance, real-time payment status visibility, notifications, and support for both real-time and batch payment processing workflows. Bidders must demonstrate API maturity, comprehensive documentation, extensibility, and address specific data residency and hosting location considerations. Only Canadian organizations are eligible to bid on this opportunity, and the performance of the work will take place offsite. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget, and the resulting contract period will be for five years. Bidders must submit all questions no later than June 17, 2026. Responses can be submitted digitally via email or online. The agency will evaluate proposals based on the ability to meet these technical, integration, and hosting requirements.