The Institute of Chartered Accountants of
                                                                India
                                     [Set up by an Act of Parliament]

                      Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and
                        Small & Medium Practitioners (CCBCAF&SMP)

Invitation for Expression of interest from software development
companies for providing the softwares relevant to the Members in
Practice of ICAI by June 17, 2012

The Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and Small & Medium
Practitioners (CCBCAF&SMP) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India (ICAI) is meant to encourage and enhance close links between the
Institute and the Chartered Accountants in Practice, so as to provide for
them, a base of reference in terms of knowledge, expertise, skills and
assistance in their professional growth, simultaneously pursuing the goal of
providing newer opportunities to the practitioners & CA Firms.

One of the major responsibilities of CCBCAF & SMP is to arrange software
relevant for the Members in Practice of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India (ICAI).

      The CCBCAF & SMP invites Expression of Interest from the various
software vendors who are interested to provide relevant softwares to the
Members in Practice of ICAI by June 17, 2012. The intending parties are
expected to have appropriate level of practical experience in the relevant area
along with the knowledge of various aspects of the CA profession.






Terms of Reference for the Vendors of the software
      THE SOFTWARE VENDOR must be willing to rebrand its existing software.
      Further, THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall not use the logo of its Company on the
      software provided to ICAI members and or in any ancillary document related to the
      software except with prior approval of ICAI and for limited purposes only.
      THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall act as a Development and Support Partner to this
      arrangement and shall provide support through help desk.
      THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall provide initial license free of cost for first two years
      activation from date of MOU to CA members holding COP and CA Firms. Any
      registered member holding COP or Practicing Firms with ICAI would be eligible to get
      single copy of initial license without paying any cost.
          THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall provide free of cost licenses of the software during
          the period of MOU to all present and future Information Technology Training Centers
          of ICAI all over India with two years' activation. THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall
          also provide free of cost live patches of the software as and when released during the
          term of this MOU.
          THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall provide free of cost single license of the software
          with two years' activation from date of MOU to all present and future offices of ICAI.
          THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall also provide free of cost training to all staffs in
          the Head Office & other offices of ICAI as well as to provide live patches of the
          software as and when released during the period of MOU.

Delivery of Software Products
a) Delivery of software
          THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall make available the Software Setup in the
          ICAI/Committee website www.icai.org.in and www.icai.org so that software setup may
          be downloaded from website and installed by the ICAI members.
i)        THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall upload the extensive documentation in soft form
          (PDF & HTML) through web links. These documents shall include Installation Manual,
          Feature List, FAQs, and User Manual etc.
ii)       THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall provide latest software patches through website
          www.icai.org.in
iii)      THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall provide access to the updated documentation,
          whenever the new update/release of the current version of the products is published if
          the same is required.
b)        UPLOADING THE SOFTWARE ON COMMITTEE'S WEBSITE: THE
          SOFTWARE VENDOR shall make available the Software content through the website
          of Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and Small & Medium Practitioners,
          www.icai.org.in and www.icai.org so that software setup can be downloaded and
          installed easily by the members, free of cost.

Training to End Users
The software vendor shall provide free of cost Training to all users of the software.


THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall not use the name of the ICAI or any of its associates in any
manner whatsoever for the promotion of its products. THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall not
publicize directly or indirectly in their advertisements in any manner about the MOU or
arrangements with the ICAI except with the prior written approval of ICAI.

THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall not state in any manner that any of its software products
are endorsed, vetted, approved or developed with the inputs of the ICAI.
THE SOFTWARE VENDOR shall use the data coming to its possession for intended purpose
only, in case this data is otherwise used or intended to be so used by THE SOFTWARE
VENDOR, the Company shall be liable for the same.







ICAI hereby retains the right to impose any other or relax the
existing terms & conditions for the arrangement of the software.

The intending Software vendors are required to send a formal request
letter with the following details, to Dr. Sambit Kumar Mishra, Secretary,
Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and Small & Medium
Practitioners(CCBCAF&SMP), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India, Post Box No.7100, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi - 110 002.
Sending proposals by email at sambit.mishra@icai.org with a copy to
ccbcaf@icai.org is preferred:

     1. Brief profile of the Company
     2. Specific experience and expertise in the relevant software for which
        they offer
     3. Proposed coverage of the Software
     4. Details about the software
     5. Modalities about the software

   It may be noted that mere submission of the Expression of Interest shall
not entitle the applicant Vendor Company to enter into an arrangement with
ICAI for its software. ICAI reserves the right to invite similar proposal from
any other Vendor Company though they may not have offered their
expression of interest in this regard. No communications will be entertained
from the applicant Vendor Companies in this regard. Only selected vendors
will be individually communicated. ICAI reserves the right to reject the
Expression of Interest received from the applicant Vendor Companies.

Indicative areas on which CCBCAF & SMP would like to bring out
softwares are given below:

1.   Cloud based ITR & TDS
2.   Service Tax
3.   Office Management
4.   Portfolio Management
5.   Other software relevant to Practitioners/ CA Firms



                                                           Pankaj Tyagee
                                                             CA.
                                                               Chairman
                         Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and
                       Small & Medium Practitioners(CCBCAF & SMP), ICAI