Invitation for External Audit Service

The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international centre that supports and promotes non-violent approaches to conflict transformation through a combination of research and action that entails the strengthening of existing local capacities and enhancing the preconditions for building peace. LPI’s Addis Ababa Regional Office would like to invite eligible certified audit firms registered under AABE and which meet the criteria indicated below, to meet our external audit services need to be performed annually at the institutional level and project-specific audit verifications which can be requested on-demand, based on audit terms of reference (ToR) which will be shared for each type of audit before commencing of the audit.

We have had our current auditor for the last seven (7) years and in accordance with best practice that this period is sufficient to warrant a change. We are therefore scoping around for a suitable replacement for the accounting period from 2022.

If your firm is interested, kindly submit a technical proposal and your profile for consideration by our procurement committee.

Interested audit firms should submit their technical proposals and financial proposal in a sealed envelope which includes:

• Copy of renewed /recent professional and/or business license
• Copy of Certificate of compliance from the office of the Accounting and Auditing Board of Ethiopia (ABBE)
• Copy of TIN and VAT certificate
• Copy of Tax clearance
• Staff composition and firm profile, including principal partners
• Previous audit experience with NGOS
• Estimated Time frame, final audit report submission for annual institutional audit and project-specific audit

Selection criteria:

• Technical Competency
• Quality of staff
• Knowledge of NGO sector
• Added Value services
• Knowledge of LPI
• Proposed fees

How to Apply

Bidders should submit Technical and financial proposals in person at Life & Peace Institute Addis Ababa Regional Office, located Off Africa Avenue, behind Dembel City Center. For additional information, contact Tel. 0911602777 / 0911059619 during office hours Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. starting from November 05 to November 19, 2021

Note: for the technical evaluation detail criteria can be developed by a technical evaluation committee and / or procurement committee. If you need further information for the proposal development, please use the contract address indicated here above. LPI reserves the right to cancel the bid and reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to bidders.