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title: "Cairn Housing Association: External Audit Services 2025-26"
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# Cairn Housing Association: External Audit Services 2025-26

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cairn-housing-association-external-audit-services-2025-26-ocds-h6vhtk-05841d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cairn Housing Association: "Cairn Housing Association: External Audit Services 2025-26". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Cairn Housing Association](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cairn-housing-association-GB-FTS-34053)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 29 August 2025 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Auditing services
- **Delivery Location:** UKM
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £43,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cairn-housing-association-external-audit-services-2025-26-ocds-h6vhtk-05841d#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05841d`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cairn-housing-association-external-audit-services-2025-26-ocds-h6vhtk-05841d#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cairn-housing-association-external-audit-services-2025-26-ocds-h6vhtk-05841d#participate

## Description
External audit services to provide independent, third-party assessment of Cairn Housing Association’s and Pentland Community Enterprise’s financial statements and internal controls to ensure:
-Financial statements are prepared according to applicable accounting standards
-Financial controls are sufficiently robust to prevent errors and detect fraud
-Financial data is accurate and reliable
-External audit reports provide a "true and fair" view of the Association's financial performance, including recommendations for improvements to systems, processes, internal controls, reporting procedures and / or data analysis techniques
-External audit reports presented to the Board and Housing Regulator provide an independent assessment of the Association’s financial statements and internal controls

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** As per appended invitation to tender.

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 018110-2026-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Azets Technology Solutions Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-103302`
  - Value: £43,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 018110-2026-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £43,000
  - Signed Date: 08/10/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F018110-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-02-27T16:08:46.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:28:37.975Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05841d