Financial Audit of the project ‘Mami-Wata Enhancing Marine Management in West Africa through Training and Application

STIFTELSEN GRID-ARENDAL

GRID-Arendal is a non-profit environmental communications centre based in Norway. We transform environmental data into innovative, science-based information products and provide capacity-building services that enable better environmental governance. We aim to inform and activate a global audience and motivate decision-makers to effect positive change. Our vision is a society that understands, values, and protects the environment on which it depends.
We are currently seeking a local, independent auditor to provide an objective assurance that our Donors funds were used as intended for our project just completed in West Africa. The specific objective is to audit on the documents and expenses and express an opinion as to whether all project funds were legitimately spent on approved project activities and in accordance with the Funding Contract.

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Fristen for mottak av tilbud var 2022-09-30. Anskaffelsen ble publisert 2022-09-09.

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Anskaffelseshistorikk

Dato	Dokument
2022-09-09	Kunngjøring av konkurranse

Kunngjøring av konkurranse (2022-09-09)
Gjenstand
Anskaffelsens omfang
Tittel: Miscellaneous services
Referansenummer: 00262022GRIDA
Kort beskrivelse:

GRID-Arendal is a non-profit environmental communications centre based in Norway. We transform environmental data into innovative, science-based information products and provide capacity-building services that enable better environmental governance. We aim to inform and activate a global audience and motivate decision-makers to effect positive change. Our vision is a society that understands, values, and protects the environment on which it depends. We are currently seeking a local, independent auditor to provide an objective assurance that our Donors funds were used as intended for our project just completed in West Africa. The specific objective is to audit on the documents and expenses and express an opinion as to whether all project funds were legitimately spent on approved project activities and in accordance with the Funding Contract.

Metadata for kunngjøring
Originalspråk: engelsk 🗣️
Dokumenttype: Kunngjøring av konkurranse
Kontraktens art: Tjenester
Forskrift: Det europeiske økonomiske samarbeidsområdet (EØS)
Felles innkjøpsordliste (CPV)
Kode: Diverse tjenesteytelser 📦
Utførelsessted
NUTS-region: Norge 🏙️

Prosedyre
Prosedyretype: Åpen anbudskonkurranse
Tilbudstype: Innlevering for alle delkontrakter
Tildelingskriterier
Det mest økonomisk fordelaktige tilbudet

Oppdragsgiver
Identitet
Land: Norge 🇳🇴
Type tildelende myndighet: Annet
Navn på tildelende myndighet: Stiftelsen grid-arendal
Postadresse: P.O. Box 183
Postnummer: 4802
Poststed: Arendal
Kontakt
Internettadresse: https://www.grida.no 🌏
E-post: procurements@grida.no 📧
Telefon: +47 47644555 📞
URL for dokumenter: https://kgv.doffin.no/ctm/Supplier/Documents/Folder/167794 🌏

Referanse
Datoer
Sendt dato: 2022-09-09 📅
Innleveringsfrist: 2022-09-30 📅
Publiseringsdato: 2022-09-14 📅
Identifikatorer
Kunngjøringsnummer: 2022/S 177-502533
OJ-S-utgave: 177
Tilleggsinformasjon

Process for submission All interested parties must submit their quotation to the following email address, no later than September 30, 2022. 12:00. procurements@grida.no. With reference ‘Financial Audit `MAMI WATA´. Any questions about the project and work to be carried out should be addressed to mona.edvardsen@grida.no.

Gjenstand
Anskaffelsens omfang
Kort beskrivelse:

We are currently seeking a local, independent auditor to provide an objective assurance that our Donors funds were used as intended for our project just completed in West Africa. The specific objective is to audit on the documents and expenses and express an opinion as to whether all project funds were legitimately spent on approved project activities and in accordance with the Funding Contract.

GRID-Arendal went into agreement in 2016 with The German Federal Minstry for the Environmental, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety to implement the project ‘Mami Wata – Enhancing Marine Management in West Africa through Training and Application’. This project was in Partnership with local organizations as well as individuals. Full budget for the project is 3,763,304.48 Euro.

The marine and coastal environment of West Africa is particularly rich in terms of productivity, biodiversity and ecosystem services provision, but at the same time under significant pressure from multiple human activities including fishing, energy, pollution and infrastructure development. Marine and costal conservation and sus-

tainable use in the region is hampered by a lack of both technical and institutional capacity and sectorially integrated, ecosystem-based management approaches.

The Mami Wata provided technical and institutional training-of-trainers and peer learning based capacity building for national planners and decision-makers dealing with marine and coastal management, across relevant sector ministries and government agencies. The project provides a series of closely linked outputs developing, pilot-testing and applying tools, methods and processes for integrated marine management (IMM). National pilot projects support hands-on learning, foster a community of practice and underpin the development of strategies for IMM development at a national and regional level. Project activities range from local community contexts to responses to global environmental commitments under the CBD.

The project will generate experiences and products with high value both for replication in marine regions across the globe, and in terrestrial contexts, where reconciling diverse stakeholder interests as well as development objectives provides a significant opportunity for increased human well-being.

Partners are based in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Benin. The 3 Centers of Expertise are in Sierra Leone, Senegal and South Africa. It may be necessary to be able to engage in local Auditors to ensure the Partners also deliver audit.

Scope of work

a. The audit needs to be carried out in accordance with International Standards on Auditing with NGAAP and will include tests and procedures the auditor considers necessary. Relevant standards of the local accounting profession as well as local legislation on accounting and reporting in Norway.

i. Budgets int eh financial report corresponds with the budget in the funding contract

ii. Funds have been used according to the contract

iii. Procurement in line with policy

iv. All expenditures properly accounted for

v. Accounts are in accordance to IAS

vi. Contracts and agreements to ve reviews, including payroll, timesheets etc

vii. Implementing partners agreements reviewed

viii. Internal control systems

b. The auditor commits to undertake the engagement in accordance with ISA and National Accounting Standards.

More information in the attachments.

Varighet: 3 måneder
Beskrivelse av fornyelser: Possibilities of the Donor requesting further information.
Tilleggsinformasjon:

Process for submission

All interested parties must submit their quotation to the following email address, no later than September 30, 2022. 12:00. procurements@grida.no. With reference ‘Financial Audit `MAMI WATA´.

Any questions about the project and work to be carried out should be addressed to mona.edvardsen@grida.no.

Utførelsessted
Hovedsted eller utførelsessted: Arendal

Juridisk, økonomisk, finansiell og teknisk informasjon
Vilkår for deltakelse
Minste nivå(er) av standarder: Ability to engage within the International Standards of Accounting.

Prosedyre
Rettslig grunnlag: 32014L0024
Tidspunkt for mottak av tilbud: 12:00
Språk som tilbud eller forespørsler om deltakelse kan sendes inn på: engelsk 🗣️
Tilbudets gyldighetsperiode: 1 måneder
Dato for åpning av tilbud: 2022-09-30 📅
Tidspunkt for åpning av tilbud: 13:00
Tildelingskriterier
Kvalitetskriterium (navn): Experienced in the audit of donor funded projects
Kvalitetskriterium (vekting): 40
Kvalitetskriterium (navn): Experience in the audit of non profit organizations
Kvalitetskriterium (vekting): 30
Pris (vekting): 30

Oppdragsgiver
Identitet
Nasjonalt registreringsnummer: 977 182 697
Annen type oppdragsgiver: Foundation
Kontakt
Kontaktpunkt: Eivind Halaas
Adresse til kjøperprofilen: https://kgv.doffin.no/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/55683 🌏
URL for dokumenter: https://kgv.doffin.no/ctm/Supplier/Documents/Folder/167794 🌏

Referanse
Tilleggsinformasjon

Quotations submitted shall be binding and valid for a period of third (30) days from the due date stated herein. Any prices accepted during this period will be considered firm/fixed. GRID-Arendal will award this requirement in total and will not accept any partial quotations.

Utfyllende informasjon
Klageinstans
Navn: Tinghuset Arendal
Poststed: Arendal
Land: Norge 🇳🇴
Kilde: OJS 2022/S 177-502533 (2022-09-09)

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