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Appointment of Sandwell Childrens Trust External Auditor

Auditing services
Financial auditing services
West Midlands (UKG37)
Official notice
Published value
£200,000
Submission deadline 28 Dec 2025, 15:00 GMT
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council: "Appointment of Sandwell Childrens Trust External Auditor". Published status: active. Published value: £200,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 28 Dec 2025, 15:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySandwell Metropolitan Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
28 Dec 2025, 15:00 GMT
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£200,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
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Published history for Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
6.2Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
E.MANTON LIMITEDTop vendor: 56% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 28 active published awards; 25 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
E.MANTON LIMITED1 win£957,658
MAVERICK INDUSTRIES LIMITED1 win£199,000
VAN ELLE LIMITED1 win£127,000
Morgan Lambert Ltd1 win£115,000
WE DO TENNIS C.I.C.1 win£80,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
Last source update27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationAuditing services, Financial auditing services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG37)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05eaa8
What is being bought
Sandwell Children’s Trust invites tenders from suitably qualified and competent registered auditors with a high level of knowledge and understanding of the public sector for the provision of a statutory external audit and certain related services. For the period 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029. The auditor must have previous experience of auditing a local authority children’s service, Children’s Trust or public bodies providing welfare services. Further details of the external audit and other services can be found in the attached document within the In-Tend ITT Pack, Schedule 5 – External Auditor Service Specification.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £200,000
    27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
  2. Status changed to active
    27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
  4. Submission deadline changed to 28 Dec 2025, 15:00 GMT
    27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published valueAED 200,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    27 Nov 2025, 20:26 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    28 Dec 2025, 15:00 GMT
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PJHD-8764-YRJJ
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  • Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PJHD-8764-YRJJ
    Sandwell Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury, UKG37, B69 3DE, GB
    michelle_hackwood@sandwell.gov.uk
Documents (2)
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