Official UK procurement notice
Mobile Telephony Connections · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Platform Housing Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement description2057 x EE, 154 x Vodaphone and 184x O2 sim connections for mobile phones used throughout the business.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMT
- Authority reference
C10000817- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021604- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060fd4Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
The process to go out to tender had been started by a Procurement colleague at PHL before they left the organisation. It was not continued after they had departed, meaning there was not enough time to finish the tender documentation and then go through the tender process before the contract expired at the end of December 2025.
We must proceed with a direct award for telephony or the business will lose its mobile connectivity for any of our staff out in the field. This would ultimately create safeguarding issues as well as a large number of staff not being able to perform their jobs on a day-to-day basis.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Mar 2026 → 11 Mar 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends233 days ago4 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Notice published226 days ago11 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMT
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Jan 2026- Transparency notice published27 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMTUK5
- Contract award notice published23 Feb 2026, 17:12 GMTUK6
- Contract signature expected6 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published11 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barclay Digital Services6 Mar 2026 – 30 Sept 2028Options: Additional sims/tariffs can be added to the co-terminus contract, no amount of additional sims has been agreed/forecasted. | £850,815 inc. VAT | 23 Jan 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Barclay Digital Services
- Signed
- 13 Feb 2026
- Value
- £850,815 inc. VAT
- Period
- 6 Mar 2026 – 30 Sept 2028
- Status
- active
No agreed KPIs: This contract is under £5 million and so does not require KPIs to be set for this published notice.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Barclay Digital Services LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender