Overview
The Government of Saint Lucia (GOSL) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank
(CDB) in an amount of approximately USD10 million towards the cost of the Enhancing the Resilience of the Saint Lucia Fire Service 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 GOSL 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 GOSL shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
The Department of Home Affairs (DOHA), the Implementing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for a Project Coordinator (PC).
The objective of the consultancy is to coordinate and monitor all aspects of the implementation of the project, which includes infrastructure works, goods, engineering and construction-related services, capacity-building and institutional strengthening activities.
The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 30 months, commencing November 2023.
DOHA now invites interested eligible Individual Consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating their qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.
Eligiblity
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
(a) The persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
(b) 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. Consultants are advised to review the detailed eligibility criteria detailed in Section 4 and conflict of interest provisions in Section 5 of the Procurement Procedures for Projects Financed by CDB (January 2021), as published on CDB’s website.
The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be downloaded from the CDB website.
In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to qualifications and experience on similar assignments
Instructions
All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., AST, Monday to Friday.
Expressions of Interest must be submitted in English, electronically, by email in pdf format to both addresses below no later than 4:00 pm, AST on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. The Email subject line should state “Expression of Interest Consultancy Services for Project Coordinator” and the email body must state the name and address of the applicant. Expression of Interest Consultancy Services for Project Interest will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is received by the Permanent Secretary, Department of Home Affairs. The burden of providing receipt of the email will be on the applicant and will not be met solely by the read receipt or sent items report generated by the applicant’s computer. In addition, one copy must be submitted simultaneously by email to CDB to procurement@caribank.org, again with the email subject line stating, “Expression of Interest Consultancy Services for Project Coordinator” and the email body stating the name and the address of the applicant.
Following the assessment of submissions, the most technically capable and appropriately experienced applicant will be invited to negotiate a contract to provide the consultancy services. GOSL 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 engaging the services of any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.