Rotation, independence and what an audit tender is really testing
Audit is one of the few professional services where the buyer is required to go to market whether it is satisfied with the incumbent or not. Rotation rules, statutory in many jurisdictions, cap how long a firm or an engagement partner may serve, which is why these notices appear on a predictable cycle and why the incumbent is frequently ineligible. Independence is assessed against the whole firm: non-audit services supplied to the same body, including consulting and tax work, are restricted or prohibited, and the declaration covers network firms as well.
The scope in a public sector audit is wider than a financial opinion. Alongside the statement of accounts, engagements commonly cover regularity -- whether spending was within the authority granted -- value for money arrangements, grant certification, and assurance over systems and controls. Internal audit is a separate market, bought as an annual plan of risk-based reviews rather than as an opinion, and the same firm is usually barred from holding both roles. Bidders should read which of these is actually being tendered.
Pricing is built from a planned mix of hours by grade, and the evaluation looks for whether that mix is credible against the complexity of the entity. A bid that wins on price and then requests additional fees for scope the documents already described is a familiar pattern buyers now guard against with explicit change control. Quality is assessed through the firm's regulatory inspection record, the qualifications and continuity of named staff, and its methodology for areas where public bodies most often have problems: asset valuation, pension liabilities, group boundaries and revenue recognition on grants.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys audit and accounting in United States?
GlobalGov holds 32 audit and accounting records from 24 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Technology Acquisition Center Nj (36C10B) (4 records); ATF (3 records); Department of Defense (3 records); Ibc Acq Svcs Directorate (2 records); Acquisition Services (1 record); Army Contracting Command (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 44% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Acquisition Center Nj (36C10B) | 4 | 12% |
| ATF | 3 | 9.4% |
| Department of Defense | 3 | 9.4% |
| Ibc Acq Svcs Directorate | 2 | 6.2% |
| Acquisition Services | 1 | 3.1% |
| Army Contracting Command | 1 | 3.1% |
What are audit and accounting contracts worth in United States?
5 of the 32 records publish a contract value. The median is $219.3M and the largest single published value is $343.7M. By size, 5 above $10M. The remaining 27 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 5 | 100% |
How long do bidders get to respond to audit and accounting tenders in United States?
Across the 24 United States audit and accounting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 11 days. A quarter of them allowed 7 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 16. 14 of them (58%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are audit and accounting tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 32 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 32, spread across 9 separate months of activity since 13 November 2025. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.
How does United States compare with other audit and accounting markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable audit and accounting market, United States ranks 24th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,888 records against 32 here). Within United States itself, audit and accounting is the 80th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States audit and accounting records on this page come from?
These 32 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (26), USAspending (5), Grants.gov (1). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Open Audit and Accounting tenders in United States
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 32 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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