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External Audit Services

Buyer: B3 Living →

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BuyerB3 Living
StatusClosed
Deadline27 Mar 2026
Value£600,000
Published25 Feb 2026

What is being bought

B3Living is seeking to appoint an External Auditor to audit and express an opinion on its financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) and the UK auditing standards (and related guidance) as issued by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) for B3L and its subsidiary companies. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=1017233948

Categories

Accounting, auditing and fiscal services 79200000Accounting and auditing services 79210000Auditing services 79212000Financial auditing services 79212100Statutory audit services 79212300

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£600,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jun 2026 to 31 May 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Schedule of Rates (60%)
Quality Questions (40%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Accounting, auditing and fiscal services, Accounting and auditing services, Auditing services, Financial auditing services, Statutory audit servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Accounting, auditing and fiscal services (79200000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 794,0663 median · 33.9 average (1,066 of 4,066 with a bid count)2.8 average (1,199 of 4,066 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3856.5 median · 7.6 average (18 of 385 with a bid count)1.3 average (18 of 385 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policynotAllowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-065c1e
Latest release ID016922-2026
Latest release timestampWed Feb 25 2026 14:06:21 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016922-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-03-27T17:00:00+00:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-04-30T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-title/76W32H7RV7
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£600,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
25 Feb 2026tender016922-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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