# Framework agreement for Financial Audit and Assurance Services

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [National Audit Office](/buyers/national-audit-office/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Grant Thornton UK LLP](/contract-winners/grant-thornton-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £40,000,000
- Tender value: £40,000,000
- Award date: 4 April 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 15 April 2016
- Contract end: 14 April 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 40e4665c-7299-4249-8494-9655339e99e2-100057
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-ca6f6aa2-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

A framework agreement where the services to be provided are expected to cover a wide range of resource and expertise and are expected to include, but are not limited to, external audit services, including providing reasonable assurance that income and expenditure have been applied to the purposes intended by Parliament, and that financial transactions conform to the authorities which govern them \('regularity'\), as well as IT audits and information assurance work, related consultancy and provision of staff support and advice and training\. This could require firms to undertake a range of work including, but not limited to, complete audits, the provision of specialist expertise on specific account or audit areas, and the provision of contract staff to work as part of NAO audit teams\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/40e4665c-7299-4249-8494-9655339e99e2-100057)