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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Card Financial Service - Panel for Forensic Accounting and Audit & Assurance, Including Post 16 Funding Audit
- GBT Ref No: 114071615
- Deadline: 03 Mar 2025
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: 5700000
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: tender_442170/1447858
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- This is a BAU procurement for audit capacity to support our annual assurance programme and Investigation support.
We need 3 different "lots". Lot 1 to cover the annual programme of outsourced post-16 funding assurance reviews (post-16 funding audits). We will seek a panel of up to 5 audit firms to deliver this for us, with outputs being an audit report using the DFE/ESFA assurance tests and an audit opinion from the firms. These require detailed knowledge and experience of post-16 funding rules applicable to funding paid for adult skills,16-19 study packages or apprenticeships training.
Lot 2 to cover the combined post-16 and pre-16 general assurance reviews and frameworks support. We will seek up to 10 firms to work with across both the pre-16 and post-16 sector. For this lot before we allocate work to firm(s) we will select the firm most able to deliver the services required through a mini-competition / rota to secure best value and to ensure the specific sector skills and expertise is demonstrated.
Lot 3 to provide suitable firms capable of delivering forensic accounting and investigation support services nationally. We will seek up to 10 suppliers who will be awarded work on a rota basis. The output for this work will be an evidence-based findings report which can be shared with the provider in scope. - Documents :
Purchaser : DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
St Pauls Place Sheffield S1 2FJ England
Contact Person : Commercial Team
Email :core.procurement@education.gov.uk
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