Engagement of an Audit Firm to Undertake the Audit of Grant Funded Projects for Financial Years 2025 and 2026

COMESA is inviting eligible firms to submit technical and financial proposals for the following services: Audit Firm to undertake the audit of Grant funded Projects for financial years 2025 and 2026 to be procured under the Contract reference number CS/ADMN/PROC/25-05-002/SM/nc.

  1. The Terms of Reference defining the minimum technical requirements for these services are attached as Annex 1 to this RFP.
  1. Your proposal must be presented as per Standard Proposal Forms attached as Annex 2 to this RFP in English language and be accompanied by copies of all the indicated supporting documents. If the supporting documents are not in English, these shall be accompanied by a certified translation into English.
  1. Submission of the technical and financial proposals must be in a written form to the email addresses below clearly quoting the reference number as stated.
  1. You are required to submit both your technical and financial proposals at the same time but in different folders/attachments. The Financial proposal should be in pdf and MUST be password protected. Do not disclose this password to anyone until we contact you to do so.
  1. Only successful firms which shall score over and above 70% in the technical evaluation shall be invited to the opening of the financial proposals. The selection method to be used is the Quality Cost Based Selection (QCBS) using the 80/20 rule.
  1. Your proposal should be addressed and submitted to: tenders@comesa.int and copied to procurement@comesa.int
  1. The deadline for submission of your proposal, to the addresses indicated in Paragraph 6 is: 26th August 2025 at 15:00 hours LUSAKA TIME.

Request for Proposal- Engagement of an Audit firm