The Federal Communications Commission issued a Limited/Sole Source Justification Notice on April 29, 2026, for contract 273FCC26P0035 awarded to YouMail, Inc., a Delaware corporation specializing in telecommunications analytics. The FCC procured briefings, reports, and data analytics services regarding illegal robocalls and robocall mitigation, with YouMail providing detailed call evidence data to be integrated with FCC consumer complaint databases. The sole-source justification was supported under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), with the FCC Enforcement Bureau determining that YouMail possesses unique qualifications as the only call analytics company capable of isolating specific robocall campaigns and collecting the requisite data volumes through its proprietary Consumer Sensor Network deployed across major U.S. mobile network operators. Although the estimated contract value was not disclosed in the justification document, the contract scope includes weekly or bi-weekly in-person briefings on active and mitigated robocall campaigns, with campaign topic briefings capped during initial 90-day periods. The FCC evaluated six competing companies offering similar services—Hiya, Transaction Network Services, First Orion, Robokiller, Pindrop, and Marchex—but concluded that YouMail's machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities and STIR/SHAKEN attestation data tracking were essential and unavailable from alternative sources, with no other vendors expressing written interest in the procurement.

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