Provision of a Similarity Detection System
Details
- Buyer
- DN Colleges Group
- Supplier(s)
- Turnitin LLC
- Value
- £30,232.94
- Duration
- 11 months
- Topic
- Educational software development services
- Published
- 21 October 2025
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
This contract is for the provision of a similarity detection system to support academic integrity across DN Colleges Group. The service enables originality and plagiarism checking at the point of submission, with full integration into the Group's virtual learning environments and alignment with partner university systems. Following a review, the contract has been directly awarded to Turnitin, LLC under the Procurement Act 2023 due to an absence of competition for technical reasons. Turnitin is fully embedded across DN Colleges Group systems and curriculum delivery, and migration to an alternative provider during the academic year would be disproportionate and disruptive to staff and students. The contract is valued at £30,232.94 inclusive of VAT for a one-year period (2025/26 academic year). A market exercise will be undertaken in early 2026 to prepare for any future competition ahead of the 2026/27 academic year. ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published21 October 2025Current notice
- Completed: Award date21 October 2025
- Completed: Contract expiry date5 October 2026
About the buyer
DN Colleges Group runs Doncaster College and North Lindsey College, and buys as an education organisation in South Yorkshire, Greater Lincolnshire and the Humber. A dedicated procurement and contracting function leads buying, with transactional purchasing devolved to departments. Procurement follows one of two pathways, collaborative buying through regional purchasing consortia or in-house tendering. The group is a member of the Crescent Purchasing Consortium and uses its framework agreements wherever possible.
Over the past 5 years, most of DN Colleges Group's contract awards have been in construction work, IT services and software and information systems.
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@dn-colleges-group.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@dn-colleges-group.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@dn-colleges-group.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@dn-colleges-group.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@dn-colleges-group.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@dn-colleges-group.gov |
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