Audit Scotland: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Audit Scotland has published 14 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 4 CPV divisions, most often business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.

Across 8 awarded contracts the median value is £507.4k.

Its published awards total £42.4m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Audit Scotland's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 45 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 5 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.2 tenders a month, measured over 60 months of history.
Half of their 8 awarded contracts are worth £507.4k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services, education and training services.
Their most frequent suppliers are ICAS (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Audit Scotland Cleaning Services	Perfect Clean Edinburgh Ltd	21 March 2023	£102.2k
External inspection of audit quality control policies and pr...	ICAEW	23 January 2023	£612.8k
Professional qualification for graduate and school leaver tr...	ICAS	9 January 2023	£925k
Professional qualification for graduate and school leaver tr...	ICAS	9 January 2023	£925k
External audit of public bodies in Scotland	KPMG	8 March 2022	£38.9m
Extentions to HR and Payroll system	MHR International UK Limited	-	£206.2k