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Touchstone Renard Awarded New Framework Agreement By Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO)
Touchstone Renard has been awarded a place on ESPO’s National Consultancy Services Framework 664-25 to deliver two framework Lots: Business Services and Audit Consultancy.
ESPO's Consultancy Services framework is designed to create a simple and efficient solution for those looking to procure trustworthy advice from pre-approved suppliers. https://www.espo.org/consultancy-services-664-25.html
ESPO is a public sector owned professional buying organisation (PBO), specialising in providing a wide range of goods and services to the public sector for over 40 years. The framework can be used for the purchase of consultancy services by any UK-based public sector organisation and offers customers a wide range of professional disciplines and expertise, including Business Services and Audit Consultancy. The new framework commenced 1st September 2025 and will run until 31st August 2027.
Lot 1a Business Services areas include:
- Alternative delivery models.
- Business continuity and resilience.
- Business transformation.
- Change management.
- Commercialisation.
- Corporate social responsibility.
- Disaster recovery systems and testing.
- Crisis and emergency preparedness.
- Contingency planning, and response.
- Funding research.
- Applications and bids.
- Improvement programmes.
- Income generation.
- Innovation.
- Legislation compliance.
- Net zero (design, procurement, and finance).
- Marketing services and management.
- Organisational design and policy.
- Process mapping.
- Programme and project management.
- Project management.
- Quality management.
- Risk management and mitigation.
- Service improvement.
- Staff recruitment and retention.
- Strategy development.
- Supply chain management.
- Whole-Life carbon, cost and risk, management & planning.
- Workforce planning and transformation.
Lot 2a Audit Consultancy areas include:
- Audit assessments.
- Audit consultancy.
- Audit services.
- Audit strategies and methodologies.
- Benchmarking and quality assurance.
- External audits.
- Financial audits.
- Governance, risk and internal control.
- Internal audits.
Phil Austin, Managing Director of Touchstone Renard, says:
We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded this place on ESPO’s new framework for consultancy services.
We are here to help our customers in whatever way matches their needs and would invite anyone to contact us to discuss any topic, without obligation.
For further information, please contact: Phil Austin on: Tel: 0203 954 2576, Mobile: 07768 366 744, Email: paustin@TouchstoneRenard.com or Richard Wood (HR & Business Services Director) on: Tel: 0203 954 2576, Mobile: 07713 621 005, Email: rwood@TouchstoneRenard.com.
