Request for Expression of Interest for services of Concur-rent Auditor for 2014–15 FY FLOOD AND RIVER EROSION RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY of ASSAM (FREMAA)

FLOOD AND RIVER EROSION RISK MANAGEMENT

AGENCY of ASSAM (FREMAA)

4th Floor, Nayan­tara Build­ing Sixmile, Guwa­hati 781022

Request for Expres­sion of Inter­est for ser­vices of Con­cur-rent Audi­tor for 2014–15 FY

FREMAA on behalf of the Gov­ern­ment of Assam is imple­ment­ing Assam Inte­grat­ed Flood end River­bank Ero­sion Risk Man­age­ment Invest­ment Pro­gram (Loan No. 2684} with loan from ADB. The Chief-Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, FREMAA invites expres­sion of inter­est from OA firms hav­ing expe­ri­ence in con­duct­ing finan­cial audit of ACM/ World Bank assist­ed Project Accounts Inter­est­ed firms are request­ed to sub­mit their ‘Expres­sion of inter­est (E0I) con­tain­ing the fol­low­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion. The audit firm may opt for a joint ven­ture, con­sor­tium or as to enhance their qualifications. 

1. Brief Pro­file of the organization.
2. Proof of autho­riza­tion of the audit­ing firm being autho­rized to prac­tice in India and are capa­ble of apply­ing the agreed audit­ing stan­dards as laid down by CAG

• The firm must be in the list of approved audit­ing Aims by CAG to car­ry­out audit of gov­ern­ment agencies;

1. The audit firm should have been oper­at­ing for a min­i­mum of 10 years out of which dur­ing the past 5 years’ it must have audit­ed government/public sec­tor agen­cies or its equiv­a­lent. The copy of the reg­is­tra­tion of audit firm along with the list of gov­ern­ment agen­cies audit­ed by the firm and proof there­of which demon­strates the capa­bil­i­ty and audit per­for­mance of the firm, should be sub­mit­ted. Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the gov­ern­ment agency for OW) audit was car­ried out by the firm shall also be con­sid­ered as…supporting doc­u­men­ta­tion, should be pro-vided.
2. Annu­al audit­ed accounts for the past 5 years,
3. Staff strength by cat­e­go­ry i.e. FCAJACA avail­abil­i­ty of trained staff capa­ble of through audits_ The audit firm shall pro­vide cur­ricu­lum vitae (CVs) of the audi­tors who will pro­vide the opin­ions and reports, togeth­er with the CVs of key per­son­nel like­ly to be involved in the audit work. These CVs should include details of audits car­ried out by these staff, includ­ing ongo­ing assignment.

• Expe­ri­ence in Assam or North-east­ern States — advantageous.

Inter­est­ed firms/organizations should sub­mit their ‘Expres­sion of Inter­est’ (Eol) in full along with the afore­said sup­port­ing doc­u­ments under two bid sys­tems i.e.

1. Tech­ni­cal bid (ii) Finan­cial bid all inclusive.

Impor­tant Date

• Last dale for sub­mis­sion of Eol in sealed enve­lope is 16.12.2014 by 2.00 PM
• Date of open­ing Tech­ni­cal bid :- 15.12.2014 by 3.00 PM

The EoI received after the due date and time will not be con­sid­ered for eval­u­a­tion. Short list­ed firms/organizations will be invit­ed to sub­mit their pro­pos­als and imple­men­ta­tion plans for eval­u­a­tion by FREMAA