TENDER!  TENDER!  TENDER!  TENDER!

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is inviting interested Individuals or Organizations to provide services to review CRS Tax for Fiscal Year 2020 - 2022.

Context and Background

As part of its operations, Catholic Relief Services deals with employment contracts, service contracts, leases and assorted procurements subjected to VAT. CRS is looking for a highly capable tax reviewer to perform tax audits on its financial records and may benefit from specific exemptions in our host country agreement. You will be determining whether our business's tax management procedures comply with regulations and compiling a tax review report for our Senior Management Team to act upon.

Objective

The consultant should conduct a review in accordance with CRS local legal status and host country agreement, to ensure CRS follows:

1. Local tax laws (salaries and allowances payment, tax collection and payment on salaries, service contracts, VAT, leases, import duties and any other applicable taxes).
2. Local laws on record retention and any legal requirements related to record retention
3. Any tax exonerations defined in our host country agreement.

Description of Work and Deliverables

1. The Consultant should also establish a detailed mapping of: type of tax, withholding procedures, reference of law backing up the application of the tax, payment frequency and due date.
2. An assessment of the compliance with local tax laws, clearly identifying any gaps identified and citing applicable legal code(s).
3. An assessment of our compliance with the exemptions defined in our host country agreement.
4. A report that compares CRS retention policy with any on local laws on records retention.

Qualification

• Be a Local Licensed Tax Firm/Tax Consultant.

Application

• Provide the Administrative documents (Approval of creation of the Tax Cabinet, copy of the NIF, copy of the Trade Register, the Tax Discharge)
• Tax firm similar experience in the field (provide copies of certificates of services rendered or contracts) during the past 10 years (To be defined by CPs)
• At least 10 years’ experience for the Lead Reviewer who will carry out the mission and 5~8 years experiences for his/her assistants.
• Provide a detailed Work Plan.
• Detailed description of the mission methodology.
• Provide a Technical and Financial Offer for the mission.

Award Criteria

The contract shall be awarded to the offer or whose offer have been evaluated and determined as:

• Responsive and compliant to the requirements of this TOR; and
• Having received the highest combined score: Technical
  • Similar experience in the field 25 points;
  • Reviewers team global years of experience 25 points;
  • Methodology 15 points
  • Detailed Work Plan 5 points
• Financial proposition 30 points

Period of Review: FY October 2020 to September 2022

Procedure:

• All Bids must be in sealed envelopes clearly marked TENDER FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO REVIEW CRS TAX and should be addressed to the Acting Head of Office, 40 Atlantic Road, Fajara not later than TUESDAY September 6^th, 2022, at 12.00pm
• All bids must have a clear contact address, telephone number(s) and must be signed
• The bid committee will open the sealed envelopes at on Wednesday September 7^th, 2022

Interested bidders should be aware that:

• Closing date for submission of bids is Tuesday, September 6^th, 2022, at 4.00pm prompt.
• The bid validity period shall be: 7 days from the date of opening of the bid

CRS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO:

1. Contact only shortlisted bidders for clarification and verification
2. Write to and offer only the selected bidder(s)
3. Reject any or all bids