# Accountancy Services and Automated Data Collection Development

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department For Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Deloitte LLP](/contract-winners/deloitte/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £6,030,000
- Tender value: £7,500,000
- Award date: 19 June 2018
- Published: 5 September 2018
- Contract start: 1 October 2018
- Contract end: 30 September 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 2c6a7c17-7265-40b1-b646-7e819dd41708-239003
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-23eb6400-0f49-486c-b0a8-6047ecc1009b

## Description

This contract forms a critical part of the Department's strategy to continue to improve its financial reporting relating to academy trusts\. We are seeking a supplier to work closely with us as we aim to deliver the academies Sector Annual Report and Accounts \(SARA\) more quickly and without any audit qualifications\. We also want to enhance our approach to financial reporting to deliver improvements that increase value and reduce burdens\. There are two key aspects of this contract: •Accountancy services to support the production of the SARA for the academies sector in England\. This involves making validations against and accounting adjustments of financial and non-financial data collected from each Academy Trust before consolidation for the SARA\. •Automating the collection of the data from each Academy Trust to DfE\. This involves end-to-end technology transformation\. DfE is seeking to bring the majority of the services of this contract in-house over the course of the three-year term

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2c6a7c17-7265-40b1-b646-7e819dd41708-239003)