Overview
The Government of Barbados (GOBD) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$6,474,000.00 towards the cost of the Enhancement of Immigration Services Project and intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of this financing to eligible payments under a contract for which this invitation is issued. Payments by CDB will be made only at the request of GOBD and upon approval by CDB, and will be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Financing Agreement. The Financing Agreement prohibits withdrawal from the financing account for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import, to the knowledge of CDB, is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. No party other than GOBD shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
Barbados Tourism Investment Inc., the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for Institutional Strengthening - Organisational Support.
The objective of the consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive organisational assessment of the Barbados Immigration Department (ID) and provide practical recommendations to facilitate the reorganisation and strengthening of the ID, ensuring that the Department’s operations, structure and staffing competencies are aligned with and complement the new digital environment being adopted. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of ten (10) months.
Barbados Tourism Investment Inc. now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest for the provision of these consultancy services.
Eligiblity
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
- in the case of a body corporate, it is legally incorporated or otherwise organised in an eligible country, has its principal place of business in an eligible country and is more than 50 per cent beneficially owned by citizen(s) and/or bona fide resident(s) of eligible country(ies) or by a body(ies) corporate meeting these requirements;
- in the case of unincorporated firms, the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
- in all cases, the consultant has no arrangement and undertakes not to make any arrangements, whereby any substantial part of the net profits or other tangible benefits of the contract will accrue or be paid to a person not a citizen or bona fide resident of an eligible country.
Eligible countries are member countries of CDB.
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of CDB’s Guidelines for the Selection and Engagement of Consultants (2011), setting forth CDB’s policy on conflict of interest.
In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to technical competence, qualifications and experience, local and regional experience on similar assignments, financial capability and existing commitments. All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from email address 1 below between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. hours Monday to Friday. Enquires must be copied to the Project Coordinator at email address 2 below.
Instructions
Electronic copies of the Expressions of Interest must be submitted to email address 3 below no later than 16:00 hours on Friday August 7, 2020 and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to email address 4 below. Each submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly entitled “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Institutional Strengthening - Organisational Support” on the cover page.
Following the assessment of submissions, a short-list of not less than three and not more than six applicants will be provided with full terms of reference and invited to submit technical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment. The GOB reserves the right to accept or reject late applications or to cancel the present invitation partially or in its entirety. It will not be bound to assign any reason for not short-listing any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.
Contact
1. Address one
Data Processing Officer
Immigration Department
'BTI Corporate Centre'
Princess Alice Highway
Bridgetown
BB11093
Barbados
2. Address two
Consultant Project Officer
Barbados Tourism Investment Inc.
Ground Floor
Old Town Hall building
Cheapside
Bridgetown
Barbados
3. Address three
Chief Immigration Officer
Immigration Department
'BTI Corporate Centre'
Princess Alice Highway
Bridgetown
BB11093
BARBADOS
4. Address Four
Procurement Officer
Economic Infrastructure Division
Caribbean Development Bank
P.O. Box 408
Wildey, St. Michael
Barbados, W.I.
BB11000