Financial Audit Services
Places for People Group Limited · UK-wide · up to £1,900,000
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What the buyer wants
Places for People Group Limited is seeking proposals from qualified audit firms to provide external financial audit services across its Group entities, including registered housing providers, commercial, leisure, development, and support services businesses. The contract includes a structured transition from the current auditor and requires timely completion of audits to meet statutory deadlines.
The Places for People Group (“PfP”) invites proposals from suitably qualified and experienced audit firms to provide external audit services for the Group.
PfP is one of the UK's leading social enterprises as it owns, manages and develops homes and communities across the UK. The Group comprises registered housing providers together with commercial, leisure, development and support services businesses.
The purpose of this tender is to appoint an external auditor capable of delivering a high-quality, efficient and value-adding audit service across the Group.
The Group's auditor for the financial year ending 31 March 2027 is MHA. The successful bidder will be expected to participate in a structured transition and shadowing period during the FY26/27 audit cycle to ensure an effective transfer of knowledge and responsibilities.
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How Tenderoo reads it
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Services required
- Accounting, auditing and fiscal services
- Financial auditing services
- Statutory audit services
- Auditing services
What you will need to show
- Qualified and experienced audit firm — The supplier must be a suitably qualified and experienced audit firm capable of delivering high-quality, efficient, and value-adding audit services across the Group.
- Ability to meet statutory and regulatory deadlines — The supplier must be able to complete audits in a timely manner to allow submission of audited accounts within statutory deadlines, including meeting the Group Board meeting deadlines at the end of July each year and the 9-month statutory filing deadline.
- Participation in structured transition and shadowing period — The successful bidder must participate in a structured transition and shadowing period during the FY26/27 audit cycle to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and responsibilities from the current auditor.
Lots
- Lot 1: Lot 1: All Group entities (up to £1,900,000) — The successful bidder for this lot will be expected to provide audit services for the Group company and all subsidiaries and JVs as required. Please note that responsibility for production and audit of JV accounts varies between partners on a case-by-case basis and so not all JV entities will be audited by the successful bidder. The successful bidder will be expected to be able to complete work on the Group audit, including all necessary work on key components, as well as any other entities in the Group with statutory or covenant deadlines, by the date of the Group Board meeting at the end of July each year. Any entities with deadlines in advance of that date will also need to be completed in time to allow filing of audited accounts within the specified deadline. All other audit activity will need to completed in a timely manner to enable submission of audited accounts within the statutory deadline of 9 months from the Group’s financial year end.
- Lot 2: Lot 2: Group accounts and key components — The successful bidder for this lot will be expected to undertake the audit of the consolidated group accounts as well as for any key components of the Group. The successful bidder for this lot will be expected to determine which components need to be audited as part of this work on an annual basis as part of their planning approach, however as a minimum each year they will be expected to complete the following audits as a minimum: •Group company and consolidated Group accounts •All Registered Providers of Social Housing •All plcs •All obligor entities •All FCA-regulated entities •Any other entities that may have statutory or regulatory deadlines within the first six months of the financial year end. In addition to this minimum, the successful bidder will be expected to identify at the earliest opportunity the other entities on which it expects to need to conclude in order to reach an opinion on the Group accounts and either to complete this work or to ensure that the successful bidder completes the work to the necessary timeframe and completes any required specified procedures. The successful bidder will be required to complete all of the above in good time to allow approval of all relevant accounts at the Group Board’s meeting at the end of July each year.
- Lot 3: Commercial, Development and Leisure Entities — The successful bidder for this lot will be expected to undertake the audit of the Group’s commercial companies, development companies (including JVs and other special purpose vehicles) and the individual entities within the Leisure sub-group. The specific entities to be audited may vary according to which specific entities are required to be completed as key components of the Group audit. The successful bidder for this lot will be required to complete all work necessary to enable filing of audited accounts within the statutory deadline of 9 months from the Group’s financial year end, 31 March each year.
Key facts
- Buyer: Places for People Group Limited
- Estimated value: up to £1,900,000
- Deadline: 28 October 2026
- Location: UK-wide
- Published on: Find a Tender
- First seen by Tenderoo: 2 October 2026
- CPV: 79200000, 79212100, 79212300, 79212000
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