Official UK procurement notice
Validating Email and Phone for The Sheffield College
Authority: The Sheffield College (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement description1)
AFD Address, Email and Phone validation within EBS for access by both staff and students for up to;
80,000 address lookups (including the addition of new build addresses and additional flats)
80,000 phone validations
80,000 email validations
The address solution includes the addition of new build addresses and additional flats,
2)
AFD Address, Email and Phone validation within D365 for access by both staff and students for up to;
10,000 address lookups
10,000 phone validations
10,000 email validations
The address solution includes the addition of new build addresses, additional flats, additional business data, and business characteristics
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure 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
- 8 Jan 2026, 15:08 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Jan 2026, 15:08 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-001538- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06020bFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
None viable; Tribal EBS integrates exclusively with AFD, and no other suppliers are supported for this service. Goods/Services are required for repairing or servicing existing specialist plant or equipment; Goods/Services are of a proprietary type only available from a single supplier.The contract is an extension to an existing contract and a change of supplier would cause disproportionate technical difficulties, diseconomies of scale or significant disruption to the College services.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 8 Jan 2026- Transparency notice published8 Jan 2026, 15:08 GMTUK5
- Contract signature expected16 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFD Software LtdValidating Email and Phone - The Sheffield Collee31 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2030 | £150,970 inc. VAT | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- AFD Software LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender