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NHS England

NHSE DSPT/CAF - Independent Audit

Business ServicesCPV 79212300
Value£53k
Awarded24 Nov 2025
Published24 Feb 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£53ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Business Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The contract is for an independent audit provider to carry out a mandatory assessment needed as part of the DSP Toolkit annual return for NHS England.

NHS England must arrange for a mandatory external and independent audit of its Toolkit evidence as part of the annual submission.

Internal audit teams are not permitted to complete the audit.

This is an NHS contractual and DHSC policy requirement.

NHSE cannot achieve a satisfactory 'Standard Met' status without the completion of this independent audit within the obligatory deadlines.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

NHS England must arrange for a mandatory

NHS England must arrange for a mandatory external and independent audit of its Toolkit evidence as part of the annual submission.

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.

NHS Data Security & Protection ToolkitCertification & assessment schemes
NHSE DSPT/CAF - Independent Audit

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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