Overview
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
The Government of Belize (GOBZ) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) towards the cost of the Implementation of Multi-Hazard Impact-Based Forecast and Early Warning System for the Belize Watershed Project and intends to apply a portion of the proceeds to eligible payments under this contract. Payment by CDB will be made only at the request of GOBZ and upon approval by CDB, and will be subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement. The Grant Agreement prohibits a withdrawal from the Grant 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 GOBZ shall derive any rights from the Grant Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Grant.
The Ministry of Finance, Investment, Economic Transformation, Civil Aviation, and E-Governance is the Executing Agency of this Project and now wishes to procure consultancy services for the Production of audio and video adverts to support Tsunami Awareness Campaign.
The objective of the consultancy is to support NEMO in the tsunami campaign via the production of high-quality audio and video adverts. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 2.5 months. Further details can be found in the attached Terms of Reference (TOR).
The Ministry of Finance, Investment, Economic Transformation, Civil Aviation, and E-Governance now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest, in the form of a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and cover letter, indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services detailed in the attached Terms of Reference.
Eligibility
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
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the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
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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 include member countries of CDB, as well as non-member countries that are eligible for procurement under the European Union (EU)-funded programme, in accordance with the EU Eligibility Rules. 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.
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 09:00 and 17:00 hours Monday to Friday.
One electronic copy of the Expressions of Interest must be sent simultaneously to the Ministry of Finance, Investment, Economic Transformation, Civil Aviation, and E-Governance at the first address below and to the CDB at the second email address below no later than 3 p.m., local time Belize on April 17, 2026. The email subject line should state “Expression of Interest – Production of audio and video adverts to support Tsunami Awareness Campaign - MHIBFEWS/REOI/04/26.”
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. GOBZ 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
Address 1
Kaelan Mendez
Ministry of Finance, Investment, Economic Transformation, Civil Aviation, and E-Governance
Ground Floor. Sir Edney Cain Building
Belmopan City
Belize C.A.
Address 2
Caribbean Development Bank