Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 29 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Internal Audit Services

Authority: Amplius Living (Public body)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£1,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Apr 2030 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Amplius is developing a tender for internal audit services. The scope of this contract is business- wide, including IT:

•The programme is expected to deliver 10-12 audits per year with expectations of lasting no more than 20 days

The audit plan must provide independent, risk- based assurance over:

•Governance

•Risk Management

•Internal Control

It must support compliance with:

•Regulatory standards

•Legal obligations

•Amplius’ risk appetite

.

Audit coverage will consider a wide range of business areas, including:

•Governance & Strategy

•Resident Safety & Compliance

•Building Safety

•Statutory Checks

•Landlord Services & Resident Experience

•Asset Management & Development

•Finance & Treasury

•Digital, Data & Cyber

•People & Safeguarding

•ESG & Regulatory Compliance

•Key Change Programmes

Priority will be given to:

•Areas with previous partial assurance

•Audits previously deferred

•Areas with emerging or evolving risks

•Areas with limited historical coverage

•Cyclical reviews requiring periodic assurance

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:

www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Milton… ↗

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/Q9757C8EB7 ↗

CPV: Internal audit services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 1 Apr 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Amplius Living buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921), and who usually turns up

Amplius Living’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerAmplius Living · division 79
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 7921 · UK-wide, n=348
2 of 422%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 7921 · UK-wide, n=246
50%38%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7921 · UK-wide, n=77
—46 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 46 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 7 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7921 · UK-wide, n=427
88%40%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
30% had one bid
The market182 lots with bid counts · CPV 7921 · UK-wide
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid30% / 13%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 23 of 182 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 40%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 72 of 182 lots with published bid counts.
4–650% / 31%
Buyer: 5 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 56 of 182 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 17%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 31 of 182 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 3 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market128 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7921 · UK-wide
37% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate37%
Market: 47 of 128 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%37%
Market: 47 of 128 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate27%
Market: 34 of 128 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 792136 monthsPublished estimate£1.0m
Expected competition
i

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. The bar shows 182 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 182 similar lots
1 bid13%
23 of 182 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–340%
72 of 182 similar past lots received 2–3 (40%).
4–631%
56 of 182 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+17%
31 of 182 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £1.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Appello Careline LimitedEarlier contractProvision of Call Handling Servicesended Jan 2026—£31kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

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.

What this replaces
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

43% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (43% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Provision of Call Handling Services — held by Appello Careline Limited; the published contract ends 12 Jan 2026.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
29 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST
Last source update
29 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST
Authority reference
A00112
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-060735
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Internal audit services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE13)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)South East (UKJ1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bf0d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

29 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published118 days ago
    29 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST
  2. Market engagement99 days ago
    17 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
    1. Amplius wishes to seek the views of potential suppliers before we tender. We are interested to know some key facts about the market you operate in and how we might shape the terms and conditions, the specification and KPIs. Your help with this will be invaluable and will assist us in designing the tender, taking into account key commercial considerations for you as suppliers.
    2. The intention of this Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire to gather a range of qualitative data and information. The information collected during the Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire process will not be used for any other purpose.
    3. Please note that this is not a call for competition, nor is it a procurement exercise.
    4. For the avoidance of doubt, this Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire is for the purpose of conducting a Preliminary Market Engagement exercise and will not formally begin the procurement or constitute any commitment by Amplius to undertake any procurement exercise.
    5. Responses will only be used for the purposes of developing the eventual call to competition.

    6.Submission of information

    Please submit your answers to the questions within the e-sourcing system. You will need to declare that the information you submit is bona fide at the time of publishing.

    7.Responsibility

    Amplius cannot accept responsibility for any costs incurred in completing this request for information and any subsequent supplier involvement in further soft market testing and preliminary supplier engagement activities.

    8.Seeking clarification

    i. If you have any queries or need clarification regarding any part of this request for information, please submit your query within the e-sourcing system.

    ii. Only requests for information or clarifications submitted through the e-sourcing system while the request for information is open will be responded to. Clarifications or queries must be submitted by 10 July 2026. All suppliers will receive a response to any queries registered.

    9.Conditions for response to request for information

    Amplius will only accept electronically received responses placed within the e-sourcing system.

    •Information submitted via the e-sourcing system must be received in full prior to the closing date.

    •Immediately prior to submitting information electronically, the supplier must check the electronic files are free from viruses using current virus checking software.

    •If an electronic file containing information that is corrupt, contains a virus or is unreadable for any reason, the Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire response will not be considered. .

    •Amplius accepts no responsibility for incorrect use of the system or failure to adhere to instructions.

    •Suppliers acknowledge and accept, in respect of electronically transmitted responses, that the upload of large electronic files may take time, and as such they must allow sufficient time to fully transmit all files prior to the closing time. (No single file should be over 5MB.)

    •Amplius will not be liable or responsible for the loss, damage, destruction or corruption of any information, however caused.

    •Until after the request for information has closed, Amplius may not discover corruption or unreadable files submitted via the e-sourcing System.

    •Faults in the supplier’s system are not the responsibility of Amplius and no extension to the closing time will be made. Any extension will be at the discretion of Amplius for all suppliers.

    •The server clock within the e-sourcing system will govern the time.

  3. Tender notice expected54 days ago
    31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 158 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

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Awards (0)
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Contracts (0)
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Bid statistics
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Amplius Living

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJDD-6383-MNNX K2, Timbold Drive, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes, South East, MK7 6BZContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

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