Consultancy Services for Gender Planning, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Saint Lucia

Summary : Consultancy Services for Gender Planning, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

Deadline : 20 Aug 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25597160

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, INNOVATION, GENDER RELATIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Division of Gender Relations Attn: Project Coordinator Gender Mainstreaming Project Corporate Planning Unit Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Studies 3rd Floor Francis Compton Building The Waterfront, Castries
Saint Lucia
Email :planner.educationslu@gmail.com

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Consultancy Services for Gender Planning, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building - Saint Lucia.

The Government of Saint Lucia (GOSL) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$149, 050 towards the cost of Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Saint Lucia-s National Sustainable Development Plan (NSDP) 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 GOSL 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 GOSL shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.

Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, the Executing Agency now wishes to procure consultancy services for Gender Planning, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building.

The objective of the consultancy is to enhance the capacity of GOSL to systematically address gender equality priorities in its planning and programming processes. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of twelve (12) months.

Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development - Division of Gender Relations now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest for the provision of these consultancy services.

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

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.

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 8:30 am and 4:30 pm local time Monday to Friday.

Four hard copies (1 original and 3 photocopies) of the Expressions of Interest must be received at the first address below no later than 4:30 pm local time on Monday, August 20, 2018 and one original hard copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below. The sealed envelope containing each submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest - Consultancy Services for Gender Planning, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building - Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Saint Lucia-s National Sustainable Development Plan (NSDP)”.

The selection method shall be Fixed Budget 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. GOSL 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

Documents

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