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title: "Financial and Accounting Services for a Multi-Academy Trust"
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# Financial and Accounting Services for a Multi-Academy Trust

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/financial-and-accounting-services-for-a-multi-academy-trust-ocds-h6vhtk-066154). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** PRESTOLEE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST: "Financial and Accounting Services for a Multi-Academy Trust". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £500,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [PRESTOLEE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/prestolee-multi-academy-trust-GB-COH-09481323)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Accounting services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/financial-and-accounting-services-for-a-multi-academy-trust-ocds-h6vhtk-066154#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-066154`

## 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/financial-and-accounting-services-for-a-multi-academy-trust-ocds-h6vhtk-066154#tl-md)

## Description
The Trust is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform a future compliant procurement for long-term financial and accounting support services.
The Trust currently operates nine primary schools and will expand to ten schools from April 2026 with the addition of a secondary school. The Trust serves approximately 3,000 pupils and has an annual turnover exceeding £15 million. The scale and complexity of the Trust's financial operations will increase significantly with the introduction of the secondary phase and is expected to continue to grow.
The Trust currently commissions outsourced financial and accounting support equivalent to approximately three days per week. Future arrangements are expected to be of broadly comparable scale to enable fair comparison across delivery models.
Through this engagement, the Trust seeks to understand the market's capacity, delivery approaches, service models, and indicative cost structures for delivering resilient, high-quality financial and accounting services to a growing Multi-Academy Trust.
This notice is issued solely for preliminary market engagement and does not constitute a call for competition.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 79211000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 31/08/2026 to 31/08/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F019118-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-03-03T15:44:17.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:33:31.144Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-066154