Official UK procurement notice
ID 6108160 - DFE - Tourism NI - Professional Accountancy Services
Authority: Tourism Northern Ireland (Central government)·On behalf of: CPD
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionID 610816 - DFE - Tourism NI - Professional Accountancy Services - Tourism NI wishes to appoint a Supplier to provide accountancy services to support the existing Finance Department (based primarily at Tourism NI’s headquarters in Belfast). The Services will be delivered on an assignment-by-assignment basis (demand led), with Tourism NI commissioning specific pieces of work as required. Please refer to the Specification for full details of requirements.
CPV: Accounting and auditing services · Accounting services · Accounting, auditing and fiscal services · Auditing services · Bookkeeping services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Compilation of financial statements services · Fiscal services · Sales and purchases recording services · Tax consultancy services · Tax-return preparation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£200,000
- Technical & professional ability
As per Tender documentation.
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).
Published sub-criteria (9)
- AC1 Methodology, Quality Assurance and Service Delivery: 25%
- AC2 - Proposed Delivery Team, Relevant Experience and Assignment: 15%
- AC3 - Contract Management: 5%
- AC4 - Business Continuity: 5%
- AC5 - Daily Rate for Partner (or equivalent): 5%
- AC6 - Daily Rate for Director (or equivalent): 7.5%
- AC7 - Daily Rate for Manager (or equivalent): 12.5%
- AC8 - Daily Rate for Assistant Manager (or equivalent): 15%
- AC9 - Daily Rate for Newly Qualified Accountant (or equivalent): 10%
Published award criteria (9)
- AC1 Methodology, Quality Assurance and Service Delivery: As per Tender Documentation
- AC2 - Proposed Delivery Team, Relevant Experience and Assignment: As per Tender Documentation
- AC3 - Contract Management: As per Tender Documentation
- AC4 - Business Continuity: As per Tender Documentation
- AC5 - Daily Rate for Partner (or equivalent): As per Tender Documentation
- AC6 - Daily Rate for Director (or equivalent): As per Tender Documentation
- AC7 - Daily Rate for Manager (or equivalent): As per Tender Documentation
- AC8 - Daily Rate for Assistant Manager (or equivalent): As per Tender Documentation
- AC9 - Daily Rate for Newly Qualified Accountant (or equivalent): As per Tender Documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per Tender documentation.
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £79,956 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Tourism Northern Ireland buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921), and who usually turns up
Tourism Northern Ireland’s own published record, next to the published 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
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Northern Ireland (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Northern Ireland.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 103 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid9% / 15%
2–327% / 50%
4–69% / 30%
7+55% / 5%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate50% / 15%
Within ±2%50% / 46%
Above estimate0% / 38%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7921Published estimate£200k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–336%
4–634%
7+13%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
Based on 18 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£167k–£200k
Estimate£200k
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SANS SOUCI CONSULTING LIMITEDWorked for this buyer | ID 5926179 - DFE Tourism NI Employer Recognition Programmeruns to Jun 2028 | Programme management and administration | £27k | Similar wording and category |
| PROFILETREE WEB DESIGN AND DIGITAL MARKETING LTDWorked for this buyer | DFE Tourism NI Managed Business Support Servicesruns to Nov 2028 | — | £4.0m | Similar wording and category |
| GRANT THORNTON NI LLPWorked for this buyer | ID 5926179 - DFE Tourism NI Employer Recognition Programmeruns to Jun 2028 | Mentoring support | £122k | Similar wording and category |
| R-GON Insights LimitedWorked for this buyer | ID 5926179 - DFE Tourism NI Employer Recognition Programmeruns to Jun 2028 | Employee survey and actionable insights | £179k | Similar wording and category |
| WHOLESCHOOL SOFTWARE LIMITEDWorked for this buyer | ID 3924628 DFE - Tourism NI - Managed Business Support Servicesnotice published Jul 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £1.8m5 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 2 live · £1.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=4 | |
| £3.3m3 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 3 live · £3.3m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 2% below n=3 | |
| £3.0m4 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 1 live · £2.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=5 | |
| £6.0m1 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £6.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 | |
| £612k2 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 1 live · £122k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 5% below n=5 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open 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)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Oct 2026, 14:02 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 14:02 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 4 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
ID 6108160 - DFE - Tourism NI - Professional Accountancy Services- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099511- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078ceaFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via eTendersNI- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 19 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders must be submitted electronically via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) opportunity on eTendersNI, website details immediately below.
Paper submissions will not be accepted or considered and will be rejected by the Contracting Authority / Buyer.
The tender documents are available with unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: URL etendersni.gov.uk/epps ↗
Timeline
21 Oct 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published1 day ago21 Oct 2026, 14:02 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 17 days8 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 28 days19 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 74 days4 Jan 2027
- Award decision expected byin 75 days4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published21 Oct 2026, 14:02 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- CPDBeneficiary authority
- CPD-Supplies & Services DivisionProcess contact pointProcuring entityConstruction and Procurement Delivery – Supplies and Services Division, is a Centre of Procurement Expertise and provides a central procurement function for central government in Northern Ireland
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender