Overview
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$909,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Nine Thousand United States Dollars) towards the cost of the ‘Strengthening Water Resources Management and Climate Resilience in Coastal and Inland Watershed Communities in Jamaica's 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 UWI Mona 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 UWI Mona shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
The UWI Mona, the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for a Technical Assistant (TA) - Chemical Analysis.
The objective of the consultancy is to ensure that project activities are executed in a timely and appropriate manner to achieve expected outputs and outcomes. The Technical Assistant will work with the relevant Team Lead throughout the entire duration of the project, and will be expected to carry out the assigned tasks and complete the stated deliverables as specified in the attached TOR.
The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 16 consecutive months.
The UWI Mona 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:
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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 and non-member countries that meet the eligibility criteria 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 9:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Friday.
An electronic copy of the Expressions of Interest including cover letter and Curriculum Vitae, must be submitted to the following two addresses no later than 4:30 pm Jamaica Time on June 4, 2025. The subject line should read “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Technical Assistant – Chemical Analysis”.
Following the assessment of submissions, the most technically capable and appropriately experience applicant will be invited to negotiate a contract to provide the consultancy services. The UWI Mona 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
Address 1
Dr. Debbie-Ann Gordon Smith
The University of the West Indies
Mona, Kingston 7
Jamaica
Address 2
Caribbean Development Bank
P.O. Box 408
Wildey, St. Michael
Barbados