Notice Information
Notice Title
DN Colleges Group - External Audit Services
Notice Description
DN Colleges Group is seeking to appoint an External Auditor to provide a high quality, value for money service to meet its needs. The College is seeking innovative proposals from organisations with a demonstrable track record within Further and Higher Education sectors who can demonstrate an understanding of needs of the College together with the knowledge and experience to deliver the required objectives.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The DN Colleges Group is seeking to appoint an External Auditor to perform the external audit for the financial year 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24, with an option to extend for up to a further two annual audits. * Submissions should be clear who is the named lead on an ongoing basis - this is a personal appointment, and the College does not expect to see certain people at the presentation and then different staff implementing the service. * Submissions should demonstrate the firm's commitment to the FE sector.
Options: 60 month(s) from the commencement date, with 36 initial month(s) and option to extend 2x12 month(s)
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-031b4d
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020115-2022
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79212300 - Statutory audit services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £225,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 25 Jul 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 31 Mar 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 18 Jul 20223 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DONCASTER COLLEGE
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- nigel.dexter@tenetservices.com
- Contact Phone
- +44 1376511411, +44 1724889000
Buyer Location
- Locality
- DONCASTER
- Postcode
- DN1 2RF
- Post Town
- Doncaster
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLE1 East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLE13 North and North East Lincolnshire
- Delivery Location
- TLE13 North and North East Lincolnshire, TLE31 Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham
-
- Local Authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Electoral Ward
- Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens
- Westminster Constituency
- Scunthorpe
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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