AwardedFind a Tender · award

Quality Assurance Audits

BuyerAspire Housing

StatusAwarded

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published27 May 2025

What is being bought

Aspire Housing (referred to as "Aspire") is looking to appoint a provider to conduct our Quality Assurance Audits for compliance areas focussing mainly on Gas and Electric for new builds, gas and elec, domestic properties, commercial and non-domestic flats for a contract commencing in March 2025 a term of 3 Years with the option to extend for a further 2 Years.

Delivery location

UKG23

Lot details

Lot 1

Aspire are looking for a Service Provider (SP) to conduct our Quality Assurance Audits for compliance areas focussing mainly on Gas and Electric for new builds, domestic properties, commercial and non-domestic flats.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 60%
price — 40%

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Technical inspection services, Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services, Safety consultancy services, Development consultancy services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services (71600000); 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 set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 71	10,116	5 median · 30 average (4,040 of 10,116 with a bid count)	4.1 average (4,443 of 10,116 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	0	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKG23	12	7 median · 7 average (1 of 12 with a bid count)	1 average (2 of 12 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 agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

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

Quality Audits

Statusactive

SupplierBlue Flame Associates Ltd

Contracts

Quality Audits

Statusactive

Value£400,000

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.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-04d064
Latest release ID	027541-2025
Latest release timestamp	Tue May 27 2025 07:27:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	complete
Procurement method	open
Procurement method details	Open procedure
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	32014L0024
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	1
Contracts in latest release	1
Parties in latest release	3

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
27 May 2025	award, contract	027541-2025
15 Jan 2025	tender	001425-2025

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

27 May 2025 · 027541-2025 · award, contract

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15 Jan 2025 · 001425-2025 · tender

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Quality Assurance Audits

What is being bought

Delivery location

Categories

Lot details

Lot 1

What is included

Comparable-procurement analytics

Price-outcome signal

Procurement strategy & market signals

Planning & early market engagement

Related procurements

Awards

Quality Audits

Contracts

Quality Audits

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Notice history

All source data