Recruitment of a Consultant for the Audit of the Pro-Routes Project Accounts (Second... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : DR Congo

Summary : Recruitment of a Consultant for the Audit of the Pro-Routes Project Accounts (Second Additional Financing)

Deadline : 23 Dec 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 38822486

Document Ref. No. : 012/MITP/CI/PRO-ROUTES/2019

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : MINISTÈRE DES INFRASTRUCTURES ET TRAVAUX PUBLICS
Cellule Infrastructures 70A, avenue Roi Baudouin – Commune de la Gombe à Kinshasa. Tel. :+243(0)993152226
DR Congo
Email :info@celluleinfra.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Recruitment of a Consultant for the Audit of the Pro-Routes Project Accounts (Second Additional Financing).

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has received two grants from the International Development Association (IDA) and DFID of USD 123 million (Initial Financing) and USD 125.2 million (First Additional Financing) to finance the Pro Project. -roads. Subsequently, IDA received USD 125 million in additional funding with a government counterpart of US $ 39.2 million through FONER, and intends to use part of the this credit to make payments under the contract of services of a Consultant for auditing the Pro-Routes Project accounts (Second Additional Financing), for the period from January 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

The services of the consultant ("Services") consist in deciding on:
a) The sincerity and regularity of the financial statements, the statements of expenditure, the designated account and the counterpart account, that is to say in relation to accounting standards, the Bank`s guidelines and the financing agreement, in particular on the eligibility and validity of the expenditures made by the Infrastructure Unit and the entities involved in the project;
(b) The effectiveness of the structure of the internal control system, ie (i) the ability of the organization to prepare reliable financial reports and (ii) to maintain comprehensive accounting of all transactions ;
c) Compliance of project implementation in accordance with the terms of the Funding Agreement and World Bank instructions, including compliance with reporting requirements and audit submission timelines, achievement of project performance indicators performance, timeliness of project and project activities / components, procurement and eligibility of expenditures, and consistency of financial reporting with project financial statements;
d) Project closure procedures specific to World Bank financed projects are implemented in accordance with the guidelines of the World Bank. (Due diligence is actually performed by the project execution unit itself, and not by the external auditor carrying out only the review, as stipulated in the credit agreement) A summary paragraph most of the closing procedures will be available during the negotiation of the audit contract. The assessment of the implementation of these procedures will be the subject of a separate note in the audit report.
The financial year to be audited is an 18-month period from January 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. Benefits are scheduled to start no later than September 1, 2020.

Les termes de référence complets sont disponibles sur le site de la Cellule Infrastructures www.celluleinfra.cd sous l’onglet « Appel d’offres ».

La Cellule Infrastructures invite les Cabinets d’audit ou leurs groupements (« Consultants ») admissibles à manifester leur intérêt à fournir les services décrits ci-dessus. Les Consultants intéressés doivent fournir les informations démontrant qu’ils possèdent les qualifications requises et une expérience pertinente pour l’exécution des Services.

Les critères pour l’établissement de la liste restreinte sont :
Le Consultant doit :
– être soit un Cabinet d’Audit et d’Expertise Comptable de réputation internationale, faisant profession habituelle de réviser les comptes, régulièrement inscrit au Tableau d’un Ordre des Experts-comptables reconnu au plan international par l’IFAC ou la FIDEF;
– avoir une expérience confirmée en audit financier des comptes des projets de développement et jugé acceptable par l’IDA ; et
– avoir effectué pendant les 5 dernières années au moins 4 missions similaires avec un ou plusieurs parmi les bailleurs ci-dessus.

It is brought to the attention of the Consultants that the provisions of paragraph 1.9 of the "Guidelines: Selection and Use of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers in IBRD Loans and IDA Credits and Donations", January 2011 Edition, Revised in July 2014, ("Consultant Guidelines"), relating to the World Bank`s conflict of interest rules are applicable.

Consultants may associate with other firms of the same category to strengthen their competence in the form of a solidarity group or a subcontractor agreement. A Consultant will be selected using the "Lowest Cost Selection (SMC)" method as described in the above mentioned Guidelines.

Interested Consultants may obtain additional information at the physical address below from the Infrastructure Unit, each working day from 9.00 to 16.00 or at its email address info@celluleinfra.org

Expressions of interest, written in French, must be submitted, in person or by mail, to the address below or sent by email
to recruitment.cf@celluleinfra.org, no later than 23 December 2019 at 15:00 local time (UTC + 1) and clearly mark: AMI No. 012 / MITP / CI / PRO-ROUTES / 2019 "Recruitment of a Consultant for auditing the Pro-Routes Project accounts over the 18-month period from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2020 (Second Additional Financing) ".

Infrastructure Unit
70A, avenue Roi Baudouin - Gombe commune in Kinshasa.
Such. : +243 (0) 993152226 - E-mail: recrutement.cf@celluleinfra.org.

Théophile NTELA LUNGUMBA
Coordinator

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