PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

2038 External Audit Service for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes ICB

NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board · published 10 Jun 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID0d3fe7da-1ec0-4638-8505-6176a8f7316f-901527
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a063e60f-81d1-4dbd-aaff-6b5361828aa1
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-335434
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£832,500
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79212300
Statutory audit services
Delivery
Not stated
MK3 6RT
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Provision of External Audit Service for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board. While this is advertised for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB, the ICB is requesting responses on behalf of itself i.e. NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board, NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough (C&P) Integrated Care Board and Hertfordshire region of NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE) Integrated Care Board. As part of the ongoing organisational changes the three ICB regions will come together and transition to form a new organisation Central East Integrated Care Board. It is anticipated that a new organisation, Central East ICB will be in place from 1st April 2026. This contract will therefore be novated during its lifetime from NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB to Central East ICB. This was procured using Crown Commercial Services RM6310 Provision of Audit and Assurance Services - Lot 2 External Audit.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release10 Jun 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published16 Jan 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Published name only

Grant Thornton UK LLP

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 10 Jun 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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