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Buyer: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
sub:'for Empanelment of Auditors to Carry out Audit of Digital Addressable Systems
closing date:30/04/2023
country:India
Notice Inviting Proposals for Empanelment of Auditors to carry out
Audit of Digital Addressable Systems
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (hereinafter referred to as “TRAI” or the
“Authority”), Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhavan, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg (Old Minto Road),
New Delhi – 110002, invites proposals from eligible companies/Limited Liability Partnerships
(LLP)/Partnership firms/proprietorship firms registered with the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India (ICAI) as audit firm (hereinafter referred to as the “Audit Agency” or
“Applicant”) for empanelment in the panel of Auditors to carry out audit of Digital Addressable
Systems in accordance with the regulatory framework for digital addressable systems comprising
of the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Service Interconnection (Addressable
Systems) Regulations, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as “Interconnection Regulations, 2017”),
the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services Standards of Quality of Service and
Consumer Protection (Addressable Systems) Regulations, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as “QoS
Regulations, 2017”) and the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services (Eighth)
(Addressable Systems) Tariff Order, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as “Tariff Order, 2017”)
dated the 03rd March, 2017, including all subsequent amendments made thereto.
2. The empanelment shall be on one of the following basis:-
(a) All-India covering all states, union territories and zones
(b) Zones ( covering areas as defined below):-
(i) North Zone (comprising Delhi (including Areas served by Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida,
Faridabad and Gurgaon), Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh)
(ii) Central Zone (comprising Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh (excluding
the Ghaziabad and Noida) and Uttarakhand)
(iii)West Zone (comprising Haryana (except the local areas served by Faridabad and
Gurgaon Telephone Exchange), Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh, Daman &
Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Lakshadweep)
(iv)East Zone (comprising West Bengal, Kolkata, Bihar, Jharkhand, North-East
(Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura), Assam,
Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands)
(v) South Zone (comprising Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Tamilnadu, Chennai, Odisha
and Puducherry)
(vi)South-West Zone (comprising Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, Goa,
Mumbai)
Note: An applicant is free to operate in one or more State(s)/ Union Territory(ies) or Zones.
However, in this case applicant has to meet eligibility criteria as defined for the individual
state/UT/ Zone, as the case may be.
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(c) Special Areas (State/Union Territory) :-
(i) NER or North-Eastern Region (comprising the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura),
Note: An applicant is free to operate in one or more State(s) in a Special area.
(ii) J&K (comprising the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir)
(iii)Ladakh (comprising the Union Territory of Ladakh)
(iv)A&N (comprising the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)
(v) Lakshadweep (comprising the Union Territory of Lakshadweep Islands)
3. The Auditors empaneled for one Zone or Special Area (State/ Union Territory) will not
be eligible to audit a DPO who has any operations or headend outside the said Zone or Special
Area.
4. The Audit Agency shall meet the following eligibility conditions for empanelment in the
panel of Auditors:-
(a) It shall be a company registered under the Companies Act, 2013, OR an LLP registered
under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, OR a Partnership Firm registered
under the Partnership Act, 1932, OR a proprietorship firm registered with ICAI as an
audit firm.
(b) It shall have, in the immediate two preceding financial years, a minimum average annual
turnover of:-
(i) Rupees Fifty Lakhs only (Rs. 50,00,000/-), for All-India empanelment or for
empanelment in more than one Zones;
(ii) Rupees Twenty Five Lakhs only (Rs. 25,00,000/-), for Zonal level empanelment; and
(iii) Rupees Five Lakhs only (Rs. 5,00,000/-), for Local level empanelment.
(c) It shall have a minimum experience of one year, either on its own or through any of its
partners/employees, in:-
(i) audit of Digital Addressable System (DAS) [Subscriber Management System
(SMS)/ Conditional Access System (CAS)] (technical and/or subscription) of
distributors; or
(ii) audit of billing and metering and/or payment and prepaid charging system involving
the use of software tools and/or Banking IT system; or
(iii)for Local level empanelment, Technical Audit in BFSI (Banking Finance Service &
Insurance)/Telecom Sector.
Note: Eexperience of statutory/internal(financial)/concurrent audit/Revenue audit/ Management
audit/Information system audit/IFC Audit/Accounting taxation & GST Consultancy/stock audit/review of
book of accounts/audit of consumer accounts/ special audit of accounts/ audit of SMS of various distributor
mapped in software/ review of billing and metering/ review of payment and prepaid charging system
involving the use of software tools/IT Audit of NBFC/migration audit and similar audits, will not
considered as relevant experience required as per EoI. However, ‘Revenue assurance audit’ and ‘Audit
related to Business analytics using IT systems’ may be considered as relevant experience required as per
EoI
(d) It shall have at least three full time professionals from among Chartered Accountant
(CA)/Company Secretary (CS)/Cost Accountant (Co.Aj/Graduate Engineer, and at least
one of the three professionals should be a Charter |