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Co-Sourcing Internal Audit Partner - Award Notice

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

Financial Ombudsman Service · published 20 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.

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Contracts Finder release IDb93f0081-5052-4829-918b-9ed4bb8283b7-918319
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-06ba5fe3-6fae-4809-beb1-756cdd55856a
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-140903
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
£2,500,000
award field
Tender value
£2,500,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79212200
Internal audit services
Delivery
Not stated
E14 9SR
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The Financial Ombudsman Service has awarded a demand-led call-off contract under the CCS Framework RM6310, Audit and Assurance Services Two, Lot 1, for the provision of internal audit co-sourcing services. The contract is for an initial term of 3 years, with the option to extend by up to two further periods of 1 year each (total 5 years aggregate). The contract will support delivery of the internal audit plan by providing access to specialist assurance capability where additional expertise or capacity is required.

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 release20 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published11 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published16 Apr 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published11 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published11 Oct 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

KPMG LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 20 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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