CARD Financial service - Panel for Forensic Accounting and Audit & Assurance, including post 16 funding audit
This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.
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.
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.
What the notice asks for
This is a BAU procurement for audit
This is a BAU procurement for audit capacity to support our annual assurance programme and Investigation support.
We will seek a panel of up
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
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
Lot 2 to cover the combined post-16 and pre-16 general assurance reviews and frameworks support.
For this lot before we allocate work
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.
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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.
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