SWIFT Consultant Tender in Cote d'Ivoire - 29713212

Procurement Summary

Country: Cote d'Ivoire

Summary: SWIFT Consultant

Deadline: 18 Jan 2019

Posting Date: 09 Jan 2019

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 29713212

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Competition: ICB

Financier: African Development Bank (AfDB)

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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79410000 - Business and management consultancy services

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Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for SWIFT Consultant.
1. Expressions of interest are being requested for: SWIFT Consultant
2. Brief description of the Assignment:
The purpose of this request for expression of interest is to select a certified consultant that will review the Bank’s SWIFT architecture, perform a high-level business analysis and assist the Bank in validating the steps for implementation of any SWIFT upgrades.
The objectives of the consultancy are:
• To review the current SWIFT technical Architecture, the configuration and settings of SWIFT applications (SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway, SWIFT WebPlatform and SWIFTNet Link.)
• To propose and immediately implement sustainable solutions to the successive disruptions that AfDB has been experiencing.
• To ensure the continuity of the production systems
3. Department issuing the request: Corporate Information Technology Services (CHIS)
4. Place of assignment: Abidjan /Cote D’Ivoire
5. Duration of the assignment: Three (03) months
6. Tentative Date of commencement: 01 February 2019.
7. Detailed Terms of reference for the assignment: The TOR are in annex 1 below
8. Deadline for applications: Friday 18 January 2019 at 17h00 Abidjan local time.
9. Applications to be submitted by email to: [email protected]
10. Any questions and requests for clarifications may be sent to: [email protected]
11. Establishment of the Short List
A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria on the basis of their updated resume.
General qualifications and adequacy for the assignment to be undertaken 35%
Similar experience in the area of expertise of the assignment 45%
Experience with the Bank and/or multilateral donors 10%
Language proficiency 05%
Knowledge of the region (assignment environment) 05%
The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s procedure for the acquisition of consulting services funded by the Administrative or Capital expenditure. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist.
1. PURPOSE

The purpose of this request for expression of interest for professional consultancy services for

SWIFT (RFEIPS) is to select a certified consultant that will review its SWIFT architecture,

perform a high-level business analysis and assist AfDB in validating the steps for

implementation of any SWIFT upgrades.

The scope of services are collectively referred to as “Project” in this RFEIPS.

2. BACKGROUND

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is using SWIFT systems as a payment solution. The

bank currently uses SWIFT Alliance products 7.2; the migration has been done by our internal

SWIFT team. The Back-Office applications are various IT Treasury Systems of the AfDB,

including SUMMIT, SAP ERP and GTMatch.

3. SCOPE OF SERVICES

The main objective of the mission is:

• To review the current SWIFT technical Architecture, the configuration and settings of

SWIFT applications (SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway,

SWIFT WebPlatform and SWIFTNet Link.)

• To propose and immediately implement sustainable solutions to the successive

disruptions that AfDB has been experiencing.

• To ensure the continuity of the production systems

4. DELIVERABLES AND OUTPUTS

AfDB requires all aspects of professional services that will be offered under this institutional

contract covering the types of services, methodologies used, engagement deliverables,

estimated timelines, etc.

Tasks are to be performed in Abidjan and on the Disaster Recovery site.

# DESIGNATION OF TASKS

1 • Review of the SWIFT system infrastructure resilience and develop suggestions for

improvement of the three SWIFT environments: test, production and business

continuity (BCP).

• Provide concrete recommendations for improvement and cost analysis, assessing the

right sourcing model for AfDB SWIFT infrastructure and applications

• Advising on infrastructure consolidation following the migration to Alliance products

7.2.
2 • Implement recommendations and correct inconsistencies encountered in order to

stabilise all the three SWIFT environments (Test, Production and Disaster Recovery

Site).

3 • Implement SWIFT mandatory upgrades and updates optimise AfDB infrastructure and

maximise value from AfDB SWIFT messaging interface

• Orchestrate the activities assigned to the IT system engineers, Security IT team,

SWIFT Administrators, etc. with emphasis on knowledge transfer

• Update the SWIFT architecture manual

• Report the accomplished duties

4 • Review procedure to switch-over the SWIFT production activities to the DR Site

server

• Elaborate various plans to resume back to activities in lapse of time and propose the

best one to resume quickly to SWIFT in case of disruption.

• Eliminate potential blocking issues from our infrastructure and reach maximum

SWIFT availability with no disruption.

5 • SWIFT interface: Review in collaboration with SWIFT Administrator's, SAP and

SUMMIT developers all existing interfaces and MP's.

• Perform the tests on the new SWIFT message formats (Standard MT 2019).

• Perform all mandatory SWIFT applications updates and migrations.

• Integrate our Back-Office systems (SAP and SUMMIT) more effectively with SWIFT

and address challenges posed by high rate of changes to our Back-Office applications –

whether those changes are driven by regulation, standards updates or system upgrades.

5. MISSION MANAGEMENT / SUPERVISION

The consultant will carry out his mission under the supervision of Corporate IT Services

(CHIS) and Treasury Department (FITR).

6. INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM THE CONSULTANT

• He/she shall have a master’s degree in Computer Science or similar studies

• The consultant shall be a professional of high repute who has at least 10 years

operational experience on SWIFT configuration and support on platforms similar

to SWIFT.

• Professional certificate in compliance is an added advantage.

• He/she shall have at least 10 years of work experience in areas of SWIFT

a) Methodologies and experience on :

- Mandatory updates planning

- Keeping SWIFT applications up-to-date for all the environments according

to SWIFT Customer Security Programme recommendations.

b) The consultant is requested to provide the following information as detailed

below:

- Experience in reviewing SWIFT architecture

- Integration, interfaces, SWIFT upgrade

- Experience in implementing SWIFT resilience solutions
• Added value: Systems Integrator / Interface Specialist, experience in banking,

treasury IT systems (payments platform, Summit, Bloomberg).

7. LOCATION

The consultant will be based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for the duration of the consulting

period and will travel to the BCP site as well.

8. REMUNERATION

The consultant will receive a monthly lump sum rate. The individual consultant is responsible

for his/her own health insurance and own accommodation costs.

Documents

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