National Insurance Company Limited Invites CA for GST Consultancy

The Nation­al Insur­ance Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NICL), a pre­mier pub­lic sec­tor gen­er­al insur­er, has released a detailed Request for Pro­pos­al (RFP) invit­ing reput­ed Char­tered Accoun­tant (CA) Firms and LLPs for empan­el­ment as Con­sul­tant for Indi­rect Tax­a­tion.

This engage­ment is aimed at man­ag­ing and advis­ing on indi­rect tax com­pli­ance includ­ing GST, ser­vice tax mat­ters, audit sup­port, lit­i­ga­tion rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and return fil­ings across NICL’s 34 GST reg­is­tra­tions nationwide.

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Important Dates:

• RFP Upload on Web­site: 23rd May 2025
• Last Date to Sub­mit Queries: 30th May 2025
• Pre-Bid Meet­ing (Ten­ta­tive): 4th June 2025
• Reply to Queries / Cor­ri­gen­dum (if any): 10th June 2025
• Last Date for Bid Sub­mis­sion (Online): 17th June 2025, by 3:00 PM
• Tech­ni­cal Bid Open­ing: 17th June 2025, at 4:00 PM
• Date of Pre­sen­ta­tion & Com­mer­cial Bid Open­ing: To be inti­mat­ed to tech­ni­cal­ly qual­i­fied bidders

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Key Highlights of the Empanelment:

• Assign­ment Dura­tion: 2 years from 01.08.2025, extend­able by anoth­er 2 years
• Ten­der Fees: ₹1,000 (MSME/NSIC units exempted)
• EMD: ₹50,000 (also exempt­ed for eli­gi­ble MSEs with declaration)

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Eligibility Snapshot:

• CA Part­ner­ship Firm/LLP oper­at­ing for at least 20 years in India
• Must be GST Suvid­ha Provider
• Min­i­mum 12 part­ners (with at least 4 in Kolkata)
• At least 15 qual­i­fied staff in Kolkata; 2 DISA/CISA qual­i­fied personnel
• Expe­ri­ence in han­dling Indi­rect Tax for clients with turnover ≥ ₹1000 crore
• Office pres­ence in Kolkata, Del­hi, Mum­bai, Chen­nai and at least two more metro cities

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Scope of Work:

• Advi­so­ry on indi­rect tax com­pli­ance, input tax cred­it opti­miza­tion, statu­to­ry fil­ings (GSTR‑1, 3B, 9, 9C)
• Draft­ing replies to tax notices and appear­ing before authorities
• Han­dling lit­i­ga­tion, audits, and appel­late pro­ce­dures includ­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tion at CESTAT
• Strate­gic tax plan­ning and inter­fac­ing with reg­u­la­tors (like IRDAI)
• GST return fil­ing, rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, ven­dor man­age­ment, and sup­port for refund claims

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Selection Criteria:

• Tech­ni­cal Eval­u­a­tion: 70% weight (Min­i­mum 70/100 marks to qualify)
• Com­mer­cial Eval­u­a­tion: 30% weight
• Final selec­tion will be based on com­bined scores fol­low­ing a weight­ed aver­age formula

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Firms inter­est­ed in this pres­ti­gious assign­ment may down­load the RFP from https://nationalinsurance.nic.co.in or from the GeM por­tal. All sub­mis­sions and com­mu­ni­ca­tions must fol­low the pre­scribed for­mats and be made strict­ly via the online pro­cure­ment portal.

For fur­ther queries, appli­cants can con­tact bhanu.suri@nic.co.in.