Overview
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has allocated financing towards the Public procurement Reform of the Eastern Caribbean States 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. The financing shall not be used 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 CDB shall derive any rights from the financing or have any claim to the proceeds of the financing.
One of CDB’s key objectives stated under its 2015-19 Strategic Plan is to enhance good governance in the Region. This includes, among other initiatives, the strengthening of public procurement systems, which in turn will contribute to efficient and effective realisation of country objectives and execution of CDB-financed projects. Moreover, transparency and accountability, as well as governance as a whole, can be strengthened through strong public procurement systems. Public procurement also has an impact on employment, private sector growth and investment.
The member states of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have generally lagged behind the wider region in terms of public procurement reform. Thus, CDB is providing financing to the above-mentioned technical assistance project to support procurement reform in the five Eastern Caribbean States of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis and Montserrat. This initiative “dovetails” with a DFID funded, World Bank executed, procurement reform project covering the OECS countries of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and Grenadines.
CDB’s support commenced with a public procurement assessment of each of the aforementioned five states using the recently revised Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS)[1]. This assessment was undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in collaboration with each of the states’ heads of procurement and other relevant stakeholders. The MAPS assessments reports, which will be provided to shortlisted consultants, have been used by each state to prepare a public procurement reform action plan, each of will contain requirements for legal and/or regulatory public procurement reform.
The objective of the consultancy is to review the current/draft legal/regulatory frameworks and MAPS reports and in accordance with the action plans of the five states to work with their public procurement leads to draft/revise the required legislation or regulations in a manner that reflects their needs and context. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 8 months
CDB now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide 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 the first address below between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 pm (Barbados time) Monday to Friday.
Instructions
Electronic copies of the Expressions of Interest must be emailed to CDB at procurement@caribank.org no later than 4:30 pm (Barbados time) on Friday, June, 28, 2019. The email must include the name and address of the applicant and the subject line shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Drafting and Revision of Legal and Regulatory Procurement Frameworks.”
The selection method shall be Quality-Based Selection. Following the assessment of submissions, a short-list of not less than three and not more than six applicants will be provided with full terms of reference and invited to submit technical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment. CDB 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
1. Address
Procurement Officer
P. O. Box 408
Wildey, St. Michael,
BB11000
BARBADOS, W.I.