PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

GEN_22_104 Financial Instruments

National Audit Office · published 9 Mar 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 IDc2ee055f-8e32-4ace-9177-c55d707ecc57-887666
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a642499c-4bef-42de-859b-656f91d0ac3b
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sBN45ywB
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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

Award value
£6,400,000
award field
Tender value
£6,400,000
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure (above threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79212100
Financial auditing services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The National Audit Office has awarded a place to multiple suppliers onto a Financial Instrument Framework to provide Financial Instrument Services for the provision of specialist advice, training and expertise to support the NAO audits sector. The selected supplier now has a place on the Framework which has the contract value of £3.2m including VAT (£800k per annum) over a period of four years including 2, 12-month extensions. As of January 2025, the value of the framework was varied up to 50% £1.6m including VAT increasing the overall framework value to £4,8m including VAT. As of March 2025, the framework has been extended by 12 months from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Tuesday 31st March 2026. As of January 2026, the value of the framework was varied up to 50% £1.6m including VAT increasing the overall framework value to £6,4m including VAT. As of February 2026, the framework has been extended for the final time by 12 months from Wednesday 1st April 2026 to Wednesday 31st March 2027.

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.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release9 Mar 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published19 Dec 2022
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2023
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2027
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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 9 Mar 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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