Expired contract

Auditing services

Details

Value
£12,000,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Auditing services
Published
23 March 2020

Tender description

• Internal audit reviews, advisory projects and specialist audit support. • Safety, health and environmental (SHE) audit reviews and advisory work. • Large capital programme audit reviews and advisory work. • Business integrity investigations support including forensic accounting, forensic technology and anti-fraud advisory services. • enterprise risk management and business continuity management support. • Loan staff: the provision of loan staff to provide a co-sourced solution and assist the Network Rail Internal Audit team with reviews in the UK. • Audit or advisory projects: provision to allocate specific audit or advisory projects to the co-source provider. In such instances, quality control is provided by the co-source provider, although ownership will be retained by Network Rail and consequently, Network Rail retains access to the working papers and reserves the right to take copies as requested. • Specialist audit support: supplying resources to undertake audits of a specialised nature (e.g. Health, Safety and Engineering, IT audit, Treasury, Data Analytics) either as loan staff or for audit projects as outlined above. • Advice and support in specialist areas (e.g. health, safety and engineering, treasury, data analytics, fraud, enterprise risk management and business continuity management). • Access to innovation and up-skilling the department in line with leading practices. • Loan staff: the provision of loan staff to provide a co-sourced solution and assist the Network Rail Internal Audit team with reviews in the UK. • Audit or advisory projects: provision to allocate specific audit or advisory projects to the co-source provider. In such instances, quality control is provided by the co-source provider, although ownership will be retained by Network Rail and consequently, Network Rail retains access to the working papers and reserves the right to take copies as requested. • Specialist advisory support in leading the strategy and delivery of assurance for capital programmes. • Access to innovation and up-skilling the department in line with leading practices. • Specialist audit support: supplying resources and/or technical insight to undertake and/or support audits of a specialised nature. • Provide niche deep subject matter expertise to assist specific internal review and advisory projects on an ad-hoc basis. • Specialist audit support: supplying resources and/or technical insight to undertake and/or support audits of a specialised nature. • Provide niche deep subject matter expertise to assist specific internal review and advisory projects on an ad-hoc basis. • Loan staff: the provision of loan staff to provide a co-sourced solution and assist the Network Rail Business Integrity Team. • Provision to allocate specific standalone investigations of all sizes (including pre-investigations) to the co-source provider. In such instances, quality control is provided by the co-source provider, although ownership will be retained by Network Rail. • Provide data discovery services. • Specialist forensic advisory support: supplying resources and/or technical insight. • Access to innovation and upskilling of fraud awareness across the organisation with a proven ability to embed and transfer knowledge. • Advisory services can also include procedure and policy reviews.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published23 March 2020
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date23 March 2020
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date2 March 2024

About the buyer

Network Rail runs a safe, efficient railway, and buys as a central public body split between a national Route Services team and its regional routes. Network Rail's latest spend reporting covers Control Period 7, the 2024-25 financial year.

Safety-critical work needs audited status on RISQS, the rail industry's supplier qualification scheme, before Network Rail contracts directly.

Over the past 5 years, most of Network Rail's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and construction work.

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