What is the Government Procurement Card (GPC)?
The GPC is a branded VISA Purchasing Card provided to the UK public sector through a framework agreement between OGC buying.solutions, VISA and six VISA-Issuing Banks. The new GPC framework agreement also provides for the provision of VISA Travel Cards, VISA Corporate Cards, VISA Commercial Cards, VISA Business Cards and virtual VISA Cards. The GPC agreement enables all UK Public Sector organisations, including Central Government, Local Government, NHS, Education, Emergency Services, Charities, NDPB’s and all other UK Public Sector organisations to benefit from a pre-negotiated contract that has been fully tendered through the OJEC process, with a core service of no card fees, no transaction fees and a competitive environment whereby all the contracted VISA-issuing banks actively compete for each potential user organisation’s business. The GPC is extremely well supported by OGC buying.solutions through a dedicated helpdesk, GPC managers, User Groups, 1-2-1s and a wide range of other su
