Overview
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) intends to apply a portion of its own funds towards the cost of contracting a Consultant to conduct the evaluation of CDB’s financial intermediary lending.
The objective of the consultancy is to assess the performance (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability) of CDB support to national development finance institutions (intermediaries) over the period 2012-19. The assignment is outlined in detail in the attached Terms of Reference.
The level of effort of the assignment is expected to be 140 person days, spread over a period of nine months (April – December, 2020).
CDB 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
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 procurement@caribank.org between 09:00 and 16:00 hours EST Monday to Friday.
Instructions
Interested consultant teams are required to submit:
- A letter of interest including their evaluation profile / experiences and expertise as a firm as well as the individuals who would be part of this assignment, their interest in undertaking the evaluation, as well as a statement confirming their availability given the timeframe.
- CVs of each individual on the evaluation team.
An electronic copy of the Expression of Interest must be received at first address below no later than February 10th, 2020 at 17:00 EST. The email subject line should read “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Financial Intermediary Evaluation”.
The selection method shall be Consultants’ Qualifications selection. Following the assessment of submissions, a short-list of not less than three and not more than six applicants will be invited to submit technical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment.
The Caribbean Development Bank 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
Address 1
Procurement Officer
Procurement Policy Unit
Caribbean Development Bank
P O Box 408, Wildey
St. Michael
BARBADOS, W. I.