Accounting, auditing and fiscal services

Tender description

London Borough of Barnet wishes to establish 4 single provider lots under a framework agreement to provide audit, assurance, and advisory services. Barnet are lead and working with London Boroughs group: Barnet (‘the Authority’) Barking and Dagenham, Enfield, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Waltham Forest, Westminster. Other local authorities interested in framework agreement are named specifically in tender documents. The framework will allow access to other local authorities https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council Greater London Authority group; Registered Social Landlords, Tenant Management Organisations, Arm’s Length Management Organisations https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/current-registered-providers-of-social-housing Health Authorities Councils Boards and Trusts https://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/NHSTrustListing.aspx Police forces https://www.police.uk/forces/ Fire and rescue services http://www.cfoa.org.uk/12072 The successful tenderer will provide appropriate resources to the authorities as required for other advisory pieces of work. This could range from helping an authority develop efficiency plans to carrying out independent investigations or supporting projects of strategic importance. The lot requirement is to provide resource and experience of risk management techniques to help the authorities develop their risk management arrangements and provide practical solutions on how to embed these into the organisation. Risks contained within the risk management system will partially inform the internal audit plan and meetings with stakeholders. It is vital that the authorities’ risk management arrangements are fit for purpose. The requirement is to address fraud risks through proactive/reactive work to prevent and detect fraud, internally including contractors and/or externally residents. The successful contractor is to support the anti-fraud work within each authority, the internal audit plan anti-fraud controls and arrangements and anti-fraud team(s) investigations to prevent, detect and evidence fraudulent activity. Benefits fraud is excluded from the scope. Internal audit is part of corporate governance arrangements delivering independent and objective key risk assessments to confirm effective management across the organisation whether delivered in house, outsourced or via alternative delivery models. Internal audit work with key stakeholders and issue assurance reports. Internal audit has a proactive role enabling the organisation to deliver change, manage risk with right controls in place.