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Horsham District Council

Horsham District Council - External Audit Services

Business ServicesCPV 79212000
Value£300,000
Deadline
Published28 Feb 2022
RegionNationwide

£300,000 — stated in the notice.

Who to contact
Procurement Team
procurement@horsham.gov.uk
+44 1403215299

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£300ktotal 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.

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The brief

Horsham District Council gives notice that in Spring 2022, it will be seeking an auditor for the audit of five financial years from 1 April 2023.

These are the audits of the 2023/24 to 2027/28 accounts.

Only registered firms, with accredited Key Audit Partners that must oversee the work, can be appointed from the list of external audit suppliers to the local government audit.

The scope of the local authority audit is fixed.

It it determined by the Code of Audit Practice (currently published by the National Audit Office), the format of the financial statements are specified by CIPFA / LASAAC, and the application of auditing standards are currently regulated by the Financial Reporting Council.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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Only registered firms, with accredited Key Audit

Only registered firms, with accredited Key Audit Partners that must oversee the work, can be appointed from the list of external audit suppliers to the local government audit.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031bbf
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
005411-2022
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