PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

GB-Sheffield: External Audit of British Growth Partnership (BGP) Fund

How to read contract values: notice stages, dates and worked examples

British Business Bank · published 23 Oct 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 ID1cb23380-9b46-49c9-a99a-e4e3bbba0091-918918
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-50a61c74-820b-4f8a-a4d2-907586497422
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-231185
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£350,200
award field
Tender value
£350,200
tender field
Procurement method
Not specified
Category
services
CPV
79212000
Auditing services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The British Business Bank require the provisions of an annual external audit of BGP Fund I LP. This was procured via a further competition using GCA's Audit and Assurance Services Two (A&AS2) Framework Agreement - RM6310 Additional information: This was procured via a further competition on GCA's Audit and Assurance Services Two (A&AS2) Framework Agreement - RM6310

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

Source-date conflictAt least one reported end date precedes its corresponding start date. Check the official notice before using the schedule.
  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release23 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published11 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published9 Jan 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published11 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Jul 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

Grant Thornton UK LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 23 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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