PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

CPT_23_02 Financial Audit Temporary and Permanent Recruitment Services x3

National Audit Office · published 4 Nov 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 IDeb22979e-25c0-49f6-b75d-cf8932ecbfb5-870700
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-7e6bcbc8-7f47-40de-a3d2-0f3ccb897dde
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
£2,850,000
award field
Tender value
£2,850,000
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure (above threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79600000
Recruitment services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The National Audit Office has awarded a contract to the selected supplier Reed Specialist Recruitment to deliver Financial Audit Temporary and Permanent Recruitment Services which support the NAO's permanent and temporary audit staffing needs. The service will be divided into two lots:- Lot 1 Financial Audit Temporary Recruitment Services, Lot 2 Financial Audit Permanent Recruitment Services The total contract value awarded to Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited to deliver just Lot 1 service with the value of £2,850,000 including VAT over an initial period of two years including 2, 12-month extensions. As of November 2025, the contract has been extended for 12 months from Friday 12th December 2025 to Friday 11th December 2026.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release4 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published29 Sept 2023
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published12 Dec 2023
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published11 Dec 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 4 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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