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# Financial Audit Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/financial-audit-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04e9e8). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED: "Financial Audit Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £5,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 11 Mar 2025. Published submission portal: www.ariba.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-energy-system-operator-limited-gov-pc1425)
- **Published Value:** £5,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 11 March 2025 at 00:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Financial auditing services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/financial-audit-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04e9e8#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04e9e8`

## 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-audit-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04e9e8#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [ariba.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ariba.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/financial-audit-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04e9e8#participate

## Description
National Energy System Operator (NESO) makes sure that Great Britain has the essential energy it needs by ensuring supply meets demand every second of every day.
The UK's 2023 Energy Act established an independent system planner and operator to help accelerate Great Britain's energy transition; creating NESO.
NESO is built on our previous experience as the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), where we had extensive expertise in balancing electricity supply and demand 24/7, whilst making sure the networks we operated and the markets we served were prepared for the future.
NESO was sold by National Grid to the UK Government on 1st October 2024 , becoming a public sector organisation from this date. We require comprehensive financial audit services compliant with International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI). The objective is to ensure NESO's financial, performance, and regulatory operations are conducted with transparency, accountability, and efficiency. This specification provides the framework for the required audit services, including scope, planning, reporting, accountability, and SLAs.
Scope of Services 
The audit firm will be responsible for delivering the following detailed services:
Financial Audit
o Provide reasonable assurance over NESO's financial records in accordance with applicable accounting standards (IFRS ).
o Verify that financial statements are free from material misstatements due to fraud, error, or irregularities.
o Evaluate internal financial controls, focusing on risks associated with financial misreporting, operational inefficiencies, or compliance failures.
o Provide an audit opinion on the true and fair representation of NESO's financial position, performance, and cash flow.
o Conduct testing of key accounts to provide reasonable assurance over the financial assertions.
o Update NESO leadership and Audit & Risk Committee (ARC) regarding relevant changes in legislation and regulation.
o Report on external audit progress to NESO leadership, including attendance at bi-monthly ARC meetings and other board or committee meetings as required.
o Provide guidance to NESO leadership in particular the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), chair of ARC, director of financial control, and the accounting & reporting lead on accounting and financial matters.
o Liaise and coordinate with the CFO, director of financial control and accounting & reporting lead via a monthly progress meeting to ensure full exchange of information.
o Produce an annual SOC1 report evaluating the effectiveness of NESO financial controls in relation to transmission revenue charging, for external distribution to UK transmission owners, including National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET).

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

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** NESO was sold by National Grid to the UK Government on 1st October 2024 , becoming a public sector organisation from this date. We require comprehensive financial audit services compliant with International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (IS...

- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F008106-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-03-05T16:39:21.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T09:57:13.309Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04e9e8