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NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board

2038 External Audit Service for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes ICB

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79200000 79210000 79212000
Value£833k
Awarded16 Jan 2026
Published10 Jun 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£833ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Provision of External Audit Service for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board.

While this is advertised for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB, the ICB is requesting responses on behalf of itself i.e.

NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board, NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough (C&P) Integrated Care Board and Hertfordshire region of NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE) Integrated Care Board.

As part of the ongoing organisational changes the three ICB regions will come together and transition to form a new organisation Central East Integrated Care Board.

It is anticipated that a new organisation, Central East ICB will be in place from 1st April 2026.

This contract will therefore be novated during its lifetime from NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB to Central East ICB.

This was procured using Crown Commercial Services RM6310 Provision of Audit and Assurance Services - Lot 2 External Audit.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Provision of External Audit Service for NHS

Provision of External Audit Service for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board.

02

Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board, NHS Cambridgeshire

Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board, NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough (C&P).

03

Integrated Care Board and Hertfordshire region

Integrated Care Board and Hertfordshire region of NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex.

04

(HWE) Integrated Care Board

(HWE) Integrated Care Board.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This was procured using Crown Commercial Services RM6310 Provision of Audit and Assurance Services - Lot 2 External Audit.

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