Audit and Assurance Services for Income Contingent Repayment Student Loans Monetisation Programme

Description

Following the 2008 Sale of Student Loans Act, the Secretary of State for Education assumed the responsibilities of Master Servicer for the sold loans agreements and is therefore responsible for sourcing a range of audits to ensure compliance. 

This is the Department's Contract Award Notice for the re-procurement of an Audit and Assurance Provider to deliver two related workstreams annually:

-	Assumptions AUP Report covering both the Assumptions AUP (one report to cover both sales). It will include auditing the Transition Matrices (TMs) used within the Earnings Module and Payment Adjustment Factors (PAFs) used in the Re-payments Module.
-	A Model Audit Report (one report per sale): Audit of the complex financial model used to forecast student loan cashflows. This should focus on any changes made to the model annually.  It will include audit of any methodological changes, analytical review of TERM to make sure the model reacts to economic variations in an expected manner, and audit of the Liabilities Module. The type of methodological change could include (but not be limited to): a change in the indexation of a Note in the Liabilities module, a change in the source macroeconomic variables, how we forecast individual earnings.

The agreement will last from 23rd May 2025 until 22nd September 2031, with two break clauses on the 31st January 2026 and 30th September 2028. This contract was competed via the Crown Commercial Service's Audit & Assurance Services (A&AS) framework (RM6188), Lot 4: Other Independent Assurance.