Official UK procurement notice
Financial Audit Services — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Places for People Group Limited (Public body)
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Places for People Group (“PfP”) invites proposals from suitably qualified and experienced audit firms to provide external audit services for the Group.
PfP is one of the UK's leading social enterprises as it owns, manages and develops homes and communities across the UK. The Group comprises registered housing providers together with commercial, leisure, development and support services businesses.
The purpose of this tender is to appoint an external auditor capable of delivering a high-quality, efficient and value-adding audit service across the Group.
The Group's auditor for the financial year ending 31 March 2027 is MHA. The successful bidder will be expected to participate in a structured transition and shadowing period during the FY26/27 audit cycle to ensure an effective transfer of knowledge and responsibilities.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
https://procurementhub.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Accounting%2C-auditing-and-fiscal-services./57H2M6D999
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://procurementhub.delta-esourcing.com/respond/57H2M6D999
- How the procedure runs: Initial Tenders. Shortlisted providers will then be invited to a presentation and to submit a Final Tender
CPV: Accounting, auditing and fiscal services · Auditing services · Financial auditing services · Statutory audit services
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published value (£1,900,000 together) · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Lot 1: Lot 1: All Group entitiesRenewalPublished value£1,900,000
- Value
- £1,900,000 exc. VAT · £2,280,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Initial term: 5 years Extension option: 2 additional years subject to performance and governance approvals Start date: term to commence with the audit of the financial year beginning 1 April 2027
Lot #2Lot 2: Lot 2: Group accounts and key componentsRenewalPublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £0 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Initial term: 5 years Extension option: 2 additional years subject to performance and governance approvals Start date: term to commence with the audit of the financial year beginning 1 April 2027
Lot #3Lot 3: Commercial, Development and Leisure EntitiesRenewalPublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £0 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Initial term: 5 years Extension option: 2 additional years subject to performance and governance approvals Start date: term to commence with the audit of the financial year beginning 1 April 2027
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).
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Places for People Group Limited buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) — and who usually turns up
Places for People Group Limited’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Places for People Group Limited
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 7921 · 8 in division 79 · 35 in all categories (1 without competition · 2 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 19 lots. 4 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 15 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 19 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 91 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 79), last 36 months: 8 notices.
Greater London · Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 73 in CPV 7921 (49 competed, 12 route not published) · 950 in division 79 (631 competed, 163 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 26 lots. 13 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 13 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 26 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 10 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 14 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 20 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 25 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:42 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:42 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 15 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077fc2Find a Tender
- How it runs
- Initial Tenders. Shortlisted providers will then be invited to a presentation and to submit a Final Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 28 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed2 Oct 2026, 13:42 BST
- Clarification questions byin 19 days21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 26 days28 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 164 days15 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 180 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 13:42 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender