How to win: External Audit Service

About this contract

Avanti Schools Trust invites offers from suitably qualified audit firms for the provision of external audit, regularity assurance and related statutory reporting services. The Trust is a successful multi-academy trust with 12 schools across London, Leicester, South West and Hertfordshire. It is a company limited by guarantee, an exempt charity and is accountable to the Department for Education (DfE) through its funding agreement. The Trust requires an audit provider with deep academy sector expertise, strong technical audit quality, robust independence arrangements and a practical understanding of the financial, regulatory and governance environment in which multi-academy trusts operate. The Trust expects bidders to comply with the applicable audit legislation, Companies Act requirements, Charity SORP, Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Academies Accounts Direction, the Academy Trust Handbook and relevant Financial Reporting Council standards. How to Participate Organisations wishing to make a tender submission need to go to https://in-tendhost.co.uk/educationportal/aspx/Home. You will be able view and respond to the ITT at the same time, view other attached documents and send q

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — AVANTI SCHOOLS TRUST scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £370,200, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 11 December 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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