Provision of Financial Audit Services to the
Auditor-General
Public Tender - Round 12
Introduction
The Auditor-General is responsible for the financial statement
audit of over 600 public bodies in Victoria. External financial
audit service providers, appointed under the Audit Act
1994, carry out the necessary fieldwork on behalf of the
Auditor-General for a number of these audits.
The arrangements for 83 financial statement audits will expire
following the completion of the 2008-09 financial audit, and the
Auditor-General wishes to make arrangements for the appointment of
new financial audit service providers for a three year period, plus
two additional years subject to satisfactory performance.
Rights Reserved
In making such arrangements, the Auditor-General reserves the
right to increase the number of financial statement audits
undertaken by in-house operational staff.
The Authorities for which the financial statement audits will be
conducted are located in Melbourne and regional Victoria, and are
in the Local Government, Transport, Justice, Health, Water and
Education sectors. The Auditor-General reserves the right to
arrange such audits in geographic groupings in order to achieve an
efficient allocation of audits. Details of the groupings are
contained in
Attachment B to the ‘Tender Specifications’ document.
The Auditor-General has a five year rotation policy applying to
financial audits, whereby after five years the new contract shall
not be awarded to the previous financial audit service provider.
The rotation policy applies to the audit service provider and not
the firm, for example, another partner in a firm would be eligible
to tender.
Process
The Auditor-General has determined a single stage registration
of interest and tender process will be undertaken. This means that
interested parties must lodge both a Registration of Interest (ROI)
in accordance with the ROI Specifications; and a Tender response
(in accordance with the Tender Specifications) on or before the
closing time (as set out in the table below). Tenders are invited
from suitably qualified and experienced financial auditors.
Tenderers may submit a tender for an individual audit or for a
group of audits.
An existing or past Audit Service Provider (person, not firm)
that has submitted a Registration of Interest for a previous tender
in the past two years and were successful in their application is
not required to submit a detailed Registration of Interest in their
application. Alternatively they may complete the cover sheet
provided in the Annex to the ROI Specification and supply details
of any significant changes to their firm since the previous ROI
that may impact their ability to perform the audit, as well as
information concerning alterations to audit methodology and quality
assurance.
For firms that have not performed audit services for the
Victorian Auditor General's Office in the past two years, or that
were previously unsuccessful in their application to tender, the
ROI must be completed in full including all of the documentation
requested in the ROI Specifications.
Further information regarding the ROI and Tender response is
contained in the accompanying documentation.
Questions and Answers
Questions and Answers regarding this tender process will be
regularly posted to our website until Wednesday, 6 May 2009.
PROCESS TIMETABLE
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Activity
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Date
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Registration of Interest and Tenders –
invited
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15 April 2009
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Registration of Interest and Tenders –
close
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2.00pm 8 May 2009
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Auditor-General to appoint financial audit
service providers
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26 June 2009
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Unsuccessful tenderers informed of result of
tender process
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29 June 2009
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Further details are contained in the
Tender specifications form and its attachments. Tenders
close at 2.00pm on Friday, 8 May 2009 and late tenders will not be
accepted.
REQUEST FOR TENDER – TR12
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TENDERS FOR THE PROVISION OF
FINANCIAL AUDIT SERVICES – TR12
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Enquires concerning tenders shall only
be made in writing to the following
contact person:
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Mr John Findlay
Assistant Auditor-General,
Financial Audit
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E-mail address for questions:
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tenders@audit.vic.gov.au |
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Place for lodgement of
tenders:
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Level 24, 35 Collins Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000 |
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Closing time and date:
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2pm, Friday, 8 May
2009 |
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Reference:
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Provision of Financial Audit Services –
TR12 |
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Tender advertised:
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Wednesday, 15 April
2009 |
All Tenderers are required to complete and submit
both
- a registration of interest response in
accordance with Registration of Interest Specifications and the
Conditions of Registration and Tender; and
- a tender response in accordance with the
instructions in
Attachment D to the Tender Specification.
Documentation to be read in
conjunction with the Request for Tender comprises:
Conditions of Registration and Tender (pdf)
Registration of Interest Specifications (pdf)
Tender Specifications, including: