Overview
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$427,812.00 towards the cost of the Facilitating Environmental Change Through Accessible Learning Resources 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 the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) 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 the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®), the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for Facilitation and Development of a CXC® Environmental Science Digital Toolkit.
The objective of the consultancy is to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework (MEF) for the Project, including developing data collection tools with guidance and instruction for their application and draft Terms of Reference for a final review of the project. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a maximum period of 21 days over the period of two months.
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.
Eligibility
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
- The persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country;
- 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 qualifications and experience on similar assignments. All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 08:30 and 1600 hours Monday to Friday.
Instructions
Expressions of Interest may be submitted by hard copy or by email as per the instructions below:
- One hard copy of the Expressions of Interest must be received at the first address below no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday 6 January, 2020 and one hard copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below. The sealed envelope containing each submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Facilitation and Development of a CXC® Environmental Science Digital Toolkit”.
OR
- Expressions of Interest saved as PDF (Portable Document Format) files may be emailed to tenders@cxc.org and copied to procurement@caribank.org. The subject of the email must be “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Facilitation and Development of a CXC® Environmental Science Digital Toolkit”. All emails must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday 6 January, 2020.
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. The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) 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.
Contact
1. Address one
Dr. Wayne Wesley
Caribbean Examinations Council
Prince Road,
Pine Plantation
BARBADOS, W.I.
2. Address two
Caribbean Development Bank
P.O. Box 408
Wildey, St. Michael
Barbados, W.I.