Empanelment of CA Firm for Audit of National Horticulture Board

Empanelment of CA Firm for Audit of National Horticulture Board

Invitation of Proposal

The National Horticulture Board (NHB) is an autonomous organization under the administrative control of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India and registered as a Society under the Haryana Registration & Regulation of Societies Act, 2012, with its headquarters at Gurugram. The main objectives of the Board are to promote integrated development of horticulture, to help in coordinating, stimulating and sustaining the production and processing of horticulture crops and to establish a sound infrastructure in the field of production, processing and marketing with a focus on post-harvest management and cold chain development to reduce losses.

Objectives

The Board intends to prepare a fresh panel of Chartered Accountant Firms for rendering services of Internal Audit, Support Services, all taxation matters pertaining to Accounts and Audit on behalf of the Board and to render other services that may be required by the Board from time to time. The Chartered Accountant Firms are required to provide above services throughout the country.

Allocation of Assignments

Allocation of various assignments/specific job responsibilities to the empaneled Chartered Accountant Firm keeping in mind their professional skills, etc. would be the sole discretion of NHB. Further, NHB shall have sole discretion to exclude the name(s) of the Chartered Accountant Firms from the panel without assigning any reason in case the performance of the any Chartered Accountant Firms is not found satisfactory by NHB in its own judgment during review at any time. EMD will be forfeited in case it is found that Chartered Accountant Firm is acting against the interest of the Board. The above professional services will be provided by the Chartered Accountant Firms according to their area of expertise and within the applicable rules & regulations and professional code of conduct & guidelines of the professional bodies/association/institute prescribed for their members. However, it will be the duty of the Chartered Accountant Firms to respond to NHB on priority, whenever required by the Board. The decision and the views of NHB in the above matters will be considered as final.

Eligibility Criteria

i) The Chartered Accountant Firm must be registered firm and have a valid registration number with ICAI. ii) The Chartered Accountant Firm should have their permanent office with required infrastructure for taking up assignment as per job requirement. iii) The firm must have empaneled with CAG for the year 2021-22. iv) The Chartered Accountant Firms should have relevant experience of at1east ten years out of which work experience of at least three assignments during last five years in a Govt. Organization ( other than NHB) is necessary for similar work. v) Attach copies of work order! empanelment letter with Govt. Departments/PSU for each of the last five years. The Chartered Accountant Firm should have annual turnover in terms of professional receipts of Rs 50.00 lakh during each of last three financial years i.e. 2018-19, 2018-19 and 2020-21 (copy of ITR & Audited Annual Accounts to be attached) vi) The Chartered Accountant Firm should have capability, as may be evident from their past experience in similar work relating to various matters. vii) The Chartered Accountant Firm must not have been debarred by Department/PSU of Central and State Governments.

General Instructions

i) Mere submission of application and fulfilling of eligibility criteria does not entitle the Chartered Accountant Firm for empanelment. ii) NHB reserves the right to modify/relax the eligibility criteria in case sufficient no of eligible applications are not received. iii) NHB reserves the right to summarily reject the applications for any of the reasons like (a) not submitted in the prescribed format or (b) do not meet any of the eligibility criteria or (c) not accompanied with requisite documents /information/EMD or (d) incomplete in any respect or (e) not signed by the applicant or by his/her authorized representative on each page, without assigning any reasons thereof. iv) NHB reserves the right to verify/crosscheck the information furnished/submitted by the Chartered Accountant Firm. v) Mere empanelment of the Chartered Accountant Firm in NHB does not guarantee any award of work/assignment by NHB. To Read More Details Download PDF Given Below: