Government
sector

Chartered Accountants providing cost assurance on major open book contracts

The Orange Partnership

Government

Central and local governments must modernise and adapt to a fluid and rapidly changing environment. With budgets under pressure and the need for value for money being paramount, more must be delivered for less.

Given that over £5.4 billion is spent annually on construction, building improvement, and maintenance across health, education, defence, prison, probation services, and the police, maintaining control and transparency over costs is critical.

The sector is balancing the need to become more commercial whilst retaining a public service ethos.

Sector Expertise

The TOP Approach

Our ‘risk-based, Agile audit approach advocates adaptive planning, early delivery, continuous improvement and encourages flexible responses to change. This also allows us to provide insights to our clients utilising the vast array of IT tools we use to make our audit work efficient and visual.

Our unique forensic approach and sector experience means we are able to very quickly but thoroughly assess areas of greatest risk of overcharging arising through poor processes and controls and gain consensus for a pragmatic and proportionate action plan for improvement.

We work collaboratively with contractors, suppliers and stakeholders.

Our work is very time efficient so we can very quickly mobilise audit resources to meet a pressing need around an emerging risk.

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