Official UK procurement notice
External Audit Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: KNOWLEDGE SCHOOLS TRUST (Education)
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: London (UKI3)
Published estimate£350,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 28 Feb 2025
Contract term 2 moends 12 Dec 2025 · extension options published · starts 27 Oct 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKST has invited firms to bid for their external audit services. We will offer a 3+1+1 year contract.
CPV: Statutory audit services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The delivery of our statutory internal audit for the trust and its subsidiaryRenewalPublished value£350,000
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
How bids were scored
Published sub-criteria (7)
- Standing and Experience: 20
- Audit Approach: 20
- Technical Expertise: 20
- Bid Quality: 5
- Added Value: 5
- Price: 30
- price: 30
Published award criteria (7)
- Price: 30%
- Standing and Experience: 20%
- Audit Approach: 20%
- Technical Expertise: 20%
- Bid Quality: 5%
- Added Value: 5%
- Price: 30%
Conditions of participation2
- Suitability
Registered Statutory Auditor
- Technical & professional ability
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
What this means for your bid
- Price carries 60 of 130 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. Quality carries 70 of 130: the paper moves it further than the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- 7 Feb 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Feb 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 31 Mar 2025 – …
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-004230- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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Contract terms
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: Completed tenders should be sent to [email protected]
How it was run
Official noticeRun through: portal not identified
- Submission deadline
- 28 Feb 2025
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 31 Mar 2025, 09:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Timeline
7 Feb 2025 → 27 Oct 2025 · 4 dates- Notice published7 Feb 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Submission deadline28 Feb 2025
- Bids opened31 Mar 2025, 09:00 BST
- Contract starts359 days ago27 Oct 2025
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Knoweledge Schools TrustReview body
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria