Official UK procurement notice
CE-01654 Castle School Education Trust External Audit
Authority: Castle School Education Trust (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCastle School Education Trust (CSET) is a successful Multi-Academy Trust with in excess of 5,094 students on roll (at 1st October 2020). CSET was formed as a MAT in March 2013 with the founding school being The Castle School in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. The Trust expanded rapidly from one to seven schools in its first three years of operation. Since then the Trust has concentrated on consolidating the financial and educational performance of the group. Firms are invited to tender for the audit for the year ending 31st August 2021, which will be a three-year term (plus 2 years discretionary), renewable on an annual basis at the discretion of the Client. Full details of the services required are included in Section 6, Service Specification. Further information on the Client is included in Appendix 1 – Client Background Information.
CPV: Auditing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£250,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Suitability
As per the tendering documentation
- Technical & professional ability
This external audit service is required to be undertaken by applicably qualified audit professionals in line with all relevant law and regulation.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 8 Feb 2021, 19:03 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Feb 2021, 19:03 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 10 Mar 2021 – …
- Authority reference
CE-01654- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-002535- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02914eFind a Tender
- Performance terms
As per the tendering documentation
- Review procedure
Information on deadlines(s) for review procedures can be found in Part 3, Chapter 6 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 10 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 10 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
8 Feb 2021 → 10 Mar 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published8 Feb 2021, 19:03 GMT
- Submission deadline10 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened10 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Court of JusticeReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria