Internal Audit Tenders and Contracts

Internal audit tenders cover the provision of an internal audit service, including audit planning, testing of internal controls, and reporting on risk management and governance. Contracts are awarded to accountancy and audit firms, either as a fully outsourced service or as co-sourced support alongside an in-house team.

Stotles brings together internal audit tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Internal audit is often called off from the Government Commercial Agency's audit and assurance framework or consortium frameworks, and police and housing bodies share regional frameworks.

Internal audit tenders are scored on the audit approach, team qualifications and sector experience, conformance with internal audit standards, reporting and day rates. Contracts run for several years, so the expiry of the current appointment is the moment to bid.

Public sector internal audit must conform to the Global Internal Audit Standards in the UK Public Sector, and audit staff are expected to hold recognised qualifications such as CMIIA or CIPFA. Tenders usually set minimum professional indemnity insurance, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Local councils, NHS trusts, housing associations, universities, police and crime commissioners and other public bodies buy internal audit services. Many run their own audit plan and bring in an external firm to deliver all or part of it.

Internal audit contracts are commonly awarded for an initial term with option extension years attached. Some contracting authorities also establish a framework agreement that other councils, NHS trusts and housing associations can call off from, rather than running a fresh tender each time.

Read audit committee papers, internal audit contract expiry dates, annual governance statements and framework renewal dates, which show internal audit work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Internal audit notices carry 79212200 (Internal audit services) and 79212000 (Auditing services).