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IT and General Audit Services

Buyer: Scottish Enterprise →

BuyerScottish Enterprise
StatusAwarded
Deadline29 Jan 2026
Value£495,000
Published25 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Scottish Enterprise (SE) are looking to put in place a new framework for the provision of a shared internal audit service to cover IT and digital requirements. A limited amount of non-IT audit activity supporting the existing internal resource may also be required through this framework (including for example forensic accounting, assurance audit reviews and investigatory audit reviews). The framework is expected to commence on 1 April 2026

Delivery location

UKM

Categories

Auditing services 79212000Financial auditing services 79212100Statutory audit services 79212300Auditing services 79212000

Lot details

Lot 1

Scottish Enterprise (SE) are looking to put in place a new framework for the provision of a shared internal audit service to cover IT and digital requirements. A limited amount of non-IT audit activity supporting the existing internal resource may also be required through this framework (including for example forensic accounting, assurance audit reviews and investigatory audit reviews). SE’s Digital and IT services are delivered through a combination of internal resource and through a shared service delivery model provided by Enterprise IS (EIS). The shared service is delivered across four organisations – SE, Skills Development Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise with Scottish enterprise as the lead procurement partner. One additional partner, Scottish Funding Council, will have access to the services delivered via the framework via a call-off mechanism should they require to do so. The framework is anticipated to commence on 1 April 2026 for an initial term of three years, with the option to extend for a further year. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Prompt Payment — Pass/fail
Relevant skills/capabilities/previous experience of proposed resource — 35%
Project Team Structure (including roles and responsibilities) — 15%
IT Audit Plan Development and Implementation — 10%
Business Continuity — 10%
Fair Work First — 5%
Methodology including Innovation — 20%
price — 40

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Auditing 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 Auditing services (79212000); 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 7913,7414 median · 30.9 average (5,803 of 13,741 with a bid count)3.2 average (6,508 of 13,741 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer504 median · 9.3 average (40 of 50 with a bid count)2 average (42 of 50 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKM6194 median · 19.5 average (358 of 619 with a bid count)4.1 average (405 of 619 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1,0735.5 median · 7.4 average (20 of 1,073 with a bid count)1.2 average (20 of 1,073 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 agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

Contracts

027216-2026-P26-0052-1

Statusactive
Value£495,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05f9a4
Latest release ID027216-2026
Latest release timestampWed Mar 25 2026 10:54:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release9

Notice history

DateEventReference
25 Mar 2026award, contract027216-2026
18 Dec 2025tender084597-2025

All source data

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

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18 Dec 2025 · 084597-2025 · tender
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