Overview
GOVERNMENT OF SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
Improving Response and Resilience of The Health Sector To COVID-19 Project
Consultancy Services to Update the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment’s Health and Wellness Promotion Policy and Risk Communication Plan
SVG-COVID-19-C-ICS-5
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GoSVG) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$4.604M towards the cost of the Improving Response and Resilience of the Health Sector to COVID-19 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 GOSVG 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 GOSVG shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
The Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Information Technology (MoFEPIT), the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for Updating the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment’s (MoHWE’s) Health and Wellness Promotion Policy and Risk Communication Plan.
The objectives of the consultancy are to (i) update the MoHWE’s Health and Wellness Promotion Policy; (ii) develop a culturally-appropriate and gender-responsive and inclusive Risk Communication Plan, and strategy including a costed implementation plan and Monitoring and Evaluation Plan; and (iii) conceptualise, design, develop, cost and implement risk communication materials and a Community Engagement Trainer of Trainers component. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of eight (8) months.
Eligibility
The MoFEPIT now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.
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.
Eligibility for procurement shall be extended to all countries eligible that are not CDB Member Countries.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.
Instructions
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 09:00 and 15:30 hours Monday to Friday. Draft Terms of Reference attached to CDB's website.
The Expression of Interest must be received electronically at the first (MoFEPIT) and second (CDB) addresses below no later than 4:00 p.m. (St. Vincent Time) on Friday, April 5, 2024. The submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services to Update the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment’s Health and Wellness Promotion Policy and Risk Communication Plan."
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 GoSVG 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.
Contacts
(1) Address
Attention: Recardo Frederick
Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Information Technology
Bay Street, Kingstown
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Email: cenplan@svgcpd.com
copied to: dtelesford@svgcpd.com
(2) Address
Caribbean Development Bank
P.O. Box 408
Wildey, St Michael
BARBADOS