Invitation for proposals: Audit Service

INVITATION FOR PROPOSAL - AUDIT SERVICE

Développement International Desjardins (DID) is a non-government-organization which belongs to Desjardins Group in Canada. It was established with a mission to support the cooperative credit model in the world in general and in Vietnam in particular. It has implemented several projects in Vietnam since 1993 to assist the People's Credit Fund network in its establishment and development.

DID has operated in Vietnam since 2016 in collaboration with the Cooperative Bank of Vietnam to implement a project to support strengthening the People's Credit Fund network (STEP) in Vietnam. The STEP was funded mainly by the Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

The STEP Project uses the administrative procedural guides of DID for project management and using its own accounting system on Acomba accounting platform. The STEP Project Financial and Administrative Procedures Manual were prepared in 2017 and updated with reference to the UN-EU Guidelines for Financing of Local Costs in Development Co-operation with Vietnam (UN-EU Cost Norm for short), which was approved by UN Agencies in Vietnam, The EU Delegation to Vietnam and the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam in November 2017. Furthermore, having been operating in Vietnam, DID must comply with the applicable laws and regulations on taxation, labor employments, social security, and others covering national employees and consultants working for DID.

Since 2019, there have been several changes in the laws on taxation, compulsory social insurances and other under laws regulations applying to the human resources of STEP project including full time employees and part-time consultants, such as the regulations on minimum wages, mandatory social, health, unemployment insurance premium rates, and so on.

STEP wishes to find consulting firm with appropriate technical expertise and experience to do the service for us. The details requirements are mentioned in the TOR in English as attached HERE.

Interested consulting firms should submit their Proposal in English only clearly stating proposed methodology and compliance with requested minimum qualifications for this assignment. The Proposal should be supported by CVs of auditor(s) submitted by email to [email protected], clearly indicating email subject of reference “Proposal DID2024 – Verification Service”. We will select an audit firm that provides the Proposal with the most competitive quotation.

Please kindly note that each email submission may not exceed 20MB in size.

The deadline for submission is 4 PM, 5th April 2024, Hanoi time.

We will select and contact the firms with the most competitive proposal only.