PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Quality Assurance Process engagement in relation to the Housing Benefit (Subsidy) Assurance Process (HBAP)

Department for Work and Pensions · published 10 Jan 2025. 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 IDea5788eb-5d40-4f5c-98dc-935af8a4d1a0-816085
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-979fe5d2-780e-45cf-a979-628de1ead4da
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-69744
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
£169,775
award field
Tender value
£232,117
tender field
Procurement method
Single tender action (below threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79210000
Accounting and auditing services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This requirement is to provide a quality assurance review of work carried out by the accountancy firms on English Local Authorities to satisfy DWP and National Audit Office that Housing Benefit Assurance Process is being consistently and correctly applied across the sector, and within individual accountancy firms across multiple locations.

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 release10 Jan 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published19 Dec 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published3 Mar 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
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

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICA

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 10 Jan 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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