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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Quality Assurance Agency For Higher Education

Provision of External Audit Services

Business ServicesCPV 79212100
Value£80k
Awarded20 Apr 2021
Published28 Jan 2022
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£80ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

QAA is looking to appoint a suitable organisation to act as its external auditor for an initial period of 4 years.

This will include reviewing QAA's financial statements to give a true and fair view of the state of its affairs and of its income and expenditure, balance sheet and cash flow for the year, and to carry out whatever examination of the statements and underlying records and control systems is necessary to reach an opinion on the statements.

QAA is the independent body entrusted with monitoring and advising on standards and quality in UK higher education.

QAA is a company limited by guarantee and has charitable status.

We work across all four nations of the UK and are dedicated to checking that the three million students working towards a UK qualification get the higher education experiences they are entitled to expect.

This procurement will be managed electronically by QAA's Facilities Team.

The closing date for tenders is 20 April 2021 at 5pm.

To participate in this procurement, please email facilities@qaa.ac.uk.

We will invite shortlisted firms to carry out presentations to QAA's Audit & Risk Committee.

These will take place on 5 May 2021.

Please note that only the top bidders will be invited to present.

If you have any enquiries about this tender, please email Caroline Blackburn, Finance Director: c.blackburn@qaa.ac.uk

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Stage
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Source
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