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title: "External Audit Services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-078f61"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "CITIZEN HOUSING GROUP LIMITED"
published: "2026-10-23"
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# External Audit Services

Buyer: CITIZEN HOUSING GROUP LIMITED  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-078f61

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## Summary

Citizen Housing Group Ltd commissioned external audit services covering two work streams: audits across the group’s external audit requirements and a separate audit of its decarbonisation programme. The work is classified as auditing services (CPV 79212000). Delivery is in the West Midlands, with the buyer based in Birmingham. The requirement combines routine external financial audit work with independent assurance of the organisation’s decarbonisation programme, so it calls for a provider able to serve a housing group across both areas.

The procurement is complete and was awarded to Menzies LLP. The contract was signed on 23 October 2026 and is active. Its stated value is £600,000, with a planned start on 1 November 2026 and a 48-month term. Citizen Housing Group used a direct award call-off from the Government Commercial Agency’s Audit and Assurance Services 2 framework, covering external audit and other independent assurance. The single lot’s stated award criterion was price. The recorded process reports one bid. The buyer reserved the possibility of amending the contract value to ensure the audits are completed in line with the regulations governing the framework. The contract covers all the group’s external audit requirements and the separate decarbonisation audit.

For suppliers seeking comparable future work with Citizen Housing Group, this award indicates demand for a provider able to deliver the group’s external audits as well as independent assurance of its decarbonisation programme. Credibility would depend on demonstrable capability across both financial audit and sustainability or decarbonisation assurance, with the capacity to cover the organisation’s full external audit requirements over a multi-year engagement. The buyer used a direct award through an established audit and assurance framework rather than an open competition, and price was the stated award criterion. Suppliers would therefore need to be positioned on the relevant framework route and offer competitive pricing alongside the breadth and continuity needed for the combined audit scope.

## Notice

This contract will include 2 work streams. This will cover all of Citizen's external audit requirements, and a separate audit on Citizen's decarbonisation program. This contract will commence 1st November 2026, and will be let for 48 months.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The procurement route to market is a direct award GCA (Government Commercial Agency) framework for Audit and Assurance Services 2, lot 2 external audit and lot 4 other independent assurance.

Options: The value of the contract may need to be amended to ensure audits are completed, in accordance with PCR2015, which the framework was procured under.

### Procurement Information

This contract has been procured by direct award call-off through the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) framework for Audit and Assurance Services 2, lot 2 external audit and lot 4 other independent assurance. The framework was procured under PCR2015, therefore this call-off contract will be governed under the same regulations.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100649-2026 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £600,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | CITIZEN HOUSING GROUP LIMITED |
| Locality | BIRMINGHAM |
| Postcode area | Birmingham |
| Postcode | B37 7YN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG32 Solihull |
| Local authority | Solihull |
| Electoral ward | Bickenhill |
| Westminster constituency | Meriden and Solihull East |
| Delivery location | TLG West Midlands (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Menzies LLP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 79212000 - Auditing services

## Release History

- 23 Oct 2026 at 15:27 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100649-2026

## Notice URLs

- http://www.citizenhousing.org.uk

## Provenance

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