Overview
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST - FIRMS - DEADLINE EXTENDED
The Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana (GOGY) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) allocated from resources provided to CDB by the European Union (EU) under the CARIFORUM-EU EPA and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy Standby Facility for Capacity Building towards the cost of the Strengthening Surveillance Programmes for Bovine Tuberculosis and Bovine Brucellosis to Improve Market Access for Guyana Cattle 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 GOGY 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 Finance 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 GOGY & GLDA shall derive any rights from the Grant Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Grant.
The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) is the Executing Agency of this Project and now wishes to procure consultancy services for The Development of a Strategic Framework for Officially Achieving Bovine Tuberculosis and Bovine Brucellosis free status in Guyana.
The objective of the consultancy is to strengthen the GOGY Bovine Tuberculosis (BTB) and Bovine Brucellosis Surveillance programme with the view of safeguarding prospects for food security while establishing strategic linkages in the regional and surrounding export markets. Further details can be found in the attached Terms of Reference. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 190 days over 8 calendar months. The GLDA now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the provision of these consultancy services.
Eligibility
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;
(b) in the case of unincorporated firms, the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
(c) 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. For Goods and Services procured with funds from the project, the eligibility for procurement shall be extended to countries eligible for procurement under EU-funded projects, which are not CDB Member Countries. Full list of eligible countries and eligibility criteria can be found on the CDB’s webpage.[1]
Consultants are advised to review the 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 applicable and as published on CDB’s website.
Instructions
In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to technical competence, qualifications and experience, local and regional experience on similar assignments, and existing commitments. Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.
Interested consultant teams are required to submit their Expression of Interest using the “EOI Consulting Firms template” attached to this REOI or which can be made available upon request by contacting Address 1 below or downloaded from the Specific Procurement Notice on CDB’s website.
All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 8 hours and 16.30 hours Monday to Friday.
An electronic copy of the Expressions of Interest must be sent in PDF format to the email in the first address below no later than 3:00 p.m. (AST) on Friday, March 1st 2024 and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second email address below. The Expression of Interest will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is received by the Office of the National Authorizing Officer at the first email address below. The burden of proving receipt of the e-mail will be on the applicant and will not be met solely by a read receipt or sent items report generated by the Consultant’s computer. The e-mail containing each submission should include the name and address of the applicant. The subject line shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for: Strengthening Surveillance Programmes for Bovine Tuberculosis and Bovine Brucellosis.”
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. GOGY 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 selecting any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.
Contacts
Dr. Dwight Walrond
Plantation Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara