Accounting Service for British Council in China

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            "name": "British Council",
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                "locality": "London",
                "postalCode": "E20 1JQ",
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            "contactPoint": {
                "name": "Forest Deng",
                "email": "Forest.Deng@britishcouncil.org"
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        "title": "Accounting Service for British Council in China",
        "description": "2.1 British Council in China has a 3-year + 1 year optional extension accounting service purchase request for its two Whole Foreign Owned Enterprises (WFOE) in China, namely BC Education Consulting (Beijing) Co. Ltd (hereafter short for WFOE1), Yinghe Advertising (Beijing) Company Limited (hereafter short for WFOE2). The work scope of this service includes but not limited to: chart of accounts set-up, bookkeeping, accounting according to China Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); tax compliance & filing according to China local VAT and surtax regulatory, and other statutory filing as per China local requirement and audit support. British Council expects to find a partner who can provide the above service to its two WFOEs in China and the service shall meets China regulatory and British Council's requirement, be consistent and cost efficient.",
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            "features": "1.1 STAGE 1 - Completeness Check & CoP & Tender Assessment 1.1.1 Participants must submit a completed Procurement Specific Question (PSQ) with their initial Tender submission. 1.1.2 Where a Participant is a consortium, all members of the consortium must complete a PSQ. The part of the PSQ concerning conditions of participation only requires to be completed by the lead member of the consortium. 1.2 Phase 1 - Completeness Check 1.2.1 The British Council will complete a check of all tender responses to ensure that they have been completed correctly and all necessary information has been provided. 1.2.2 Tender responses correctly completed with all relevant information being provided, and all mandatory requirements, as set out in this ITT and associated documents, met; will proceed to Phase 2. 1.2.3 Any tender responses not correctly completed in accordance with the requirements of this ITT and associated documents, and/or containing omissions may be rejected at this point. Where a tender response is rejected at this point it will be rejected in full and not evaluated further and the supplier will automatically be disqualified from this Procurement Process. 1.3 Phase 2 - Excluded and Excludable 1.3.1 As detailed in Section 15 of the ITT document, British Council are required to exclude any Excluded suppliers from further participation in the event. Therefore, at this phase of the procurement, British Council will assess all Potential Suppliers for Mandatory Exclusion Grounds, and exclude any affected suppliers from further participation. Where a potential supplier is excluded at this point, its tender response will be rejected in full and not evaluated further and the supplier will automatically be disqualified from this Procurement Process. 1.3.2 As detailed in Section 15 of the ITT document, British Council may consider to exclude any Excludable suppliers from further participation in the event. Therefore, at this phase of the procurement, British Council will assess all Potential Suppliers for Discretionary Exclusion Grounds, and consider excluding any potential affected suppliers from further participation. Where a potential supplier is excluded at this point, its tender response will be rejected in full and not evaluated further and the supplier will automatically be disqualified from this Procurement Process. 1.4 Phase 3 - Conditions of Participation 1.4.1 British Council will check each potential supplier has completed the Procurement Specific Questionnaire correctly and in full. 1.4.2 Participants must also upload core supplier information to the Central Digital Platform and confirm to the Authority that they have done so. 1.4.3 British Council may request clarification and/or further information from Participants to gain a full and complete understanding of the submission. 1.4.4 British Council will assess each submission to confirm that the potential supplier meets all of the qualification criteria set out in the questionnaire, including the conditions of participation, as detailed in Section 16 of this ITT 1.4.5 Potential suppliers that meet the qualification criteria will proceed to the next phase. 1.4.6 Potential suppliers that do not meet the qualification criteria may be excluded from the Procurement Process at this point. Where a potential supplier is excluded at this point, its tender response will be rejected in full and not evaluated further and the supplier will automatically be disqualified from this Procurement Process. 1.5 Phase 4 - Assessment of Tenders 1.5.1 British Council will assess Responses from all potential suppliers who have passed Phase 1-3 of this process, to determine the most advantageous tender using the following criteria and weightings and will be assessed entirely on the response submitted: 1.5.2 Responses will be assessed using the Scoring Model outlined in paragraph 19.7 of this ITT. Criteria Weighting Social Value 10% Quality [20]% Methodology and Approach [30]% Commercial [40]% 1.5.3 Moderation and application of weightings - The evaluation panel appointed for this procurement will meet to agree and moderate scores for each award criteria. Final scores in terms of a percentage of the overall tender score will be obtained by applying the relevant weighting factors set out as part of the award criteria table above. The percentage scores for each award criteria will be amalgamated to give a percentage score out of 100."
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