Overview
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) intends to procure consultancy services for a Monitoring and Evaluation consultant for the SheTrades Caribbean Hub Project.
The objective of the consultancy is to support the monitoring and evaluation of the SheTrades Caribbean Hub project in accordance with the bilateral agreement between Caribbean Development Bank and the International Trade Centre. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of Ten months.
CDB now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.
A Consultant shall be eligible to participate if they fulfil:
1) the following eligibility requirements:
- (a) the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
- (b) 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.
2) the following integrity requirements:
- is not subject to sanctions under the United Nations (UN) Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the UN;
- has not engaged in Prohibited Practices, as detailed in Paragraph 2.02 a) of the Procedures for Dealing with Fraud and Corruption in CDB-Financed Projects (October 2014 or as updated from time to time)
- is not suspended or debarred by CDB for engaging in the Prohibited Practices referenced in 2) (b) above;
- is not publicly debarred by a Multilateral Development Bank subject to the Agreement on Mutual Enforcement of Debarment Decisions in their own right, or under abovementioned agreement;
- is not subject to a conflict of interest that would undermine the Consultant's ability to provide professional, objective, and impartial advice.
CDB requires that all parties involved in the procurement process avoid and declare promptly and proactively in writing to CDB any potential, apparent or actual conflicts of interest. Without limitation on the generality of the foregoing, the Consultant shall not be hired under the following circumstances: Conflict between consulting activities and procurement of goods, works or non-consulting services, conflict among consulting assignments, and/or close relationships with CDB staff or other stakeholders involved in or expected to be involved in the procurement or subsequent contract management.
Eligibility
Eligible countries are member countries of CDB.
In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to the individual’s qualifications and experience on similar assignments. All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the address below between 10:00am and 3:30pm AST Monday to Friday.
Instructions
Electronic submissions of the Expressions of Interest must be received at the address below no later than 4:30pm AST on Thursday, October 31, 2024. The Expression of Interest will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is received by CDB. 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 Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, SheTrades Caribbean Hub”.
Following the assessment of submissions, the most technically capable and appropriately experienced applicant will be invited to negotiate a contract to provide the consultancy services. 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.
Consultants are advised to view CDB’s General Privacy Notice for information on how CDB manages and protects personal data.
All correspondence should be sent to the address below.
Contacts
SheTrades Caribbean Hub
c/o Ms. Lisa Harding
P.O.BOX 408
Wildey
St. Michael
BARBADOS