Overview
The Government of Grenada (GOGR) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) towards the cost of the Climate Smart Agriculture and Rural Enterprise Programme (SAEP) and the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) Programme and intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of this financing to eligible payments under a contract for which this request is issued. Payments by CDB will be made only at the request of GOGR 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 GOGR shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
The Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economic Development and Physical Development, the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure a Project Engineer for the Programmes.
The main objective of this consultancy is for an individual Civil Engineer to serve within the Rural Development Unit (RDU), the agency that will implement the two programmes, in order to ensure that the infrastructural aspects of the Programmes are executed to the required standard.
The duration of the consultancy is expected to be for an initial period of twenty-four (24) months, commencing July 2019.
The Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economic Development and Physical Development now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.Firms may submit individuals. However, only the experience and qualifications of the individual will be used in the selection process.
Eligiblity
Individuals shall be eligible to participate if:
- the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
- in all cases, the individual 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 qualifications and experience on similar assignments. All information must be submitted in English.
Instructions
One hard copy of the Expression of Interest must be received at the first address below no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, June 14th, 2019. The sealed envelope containing the submission should indicate the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Project Engineer”. One electronic copy, in pdf format, must be sent by e-mail simultaneously to CDB at the second address below, with the e-mail subject line stating “Expression of Interest – Project Engineer for SAEP and BNTF Programmes” and the e-mail body stating the name and address of the applicant.
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. GOGR 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.
Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. – Monday to Friday.
Contact
1. Address
The Permanent Secretary
2. Address
Procurement Policy Unit
Caribbean Development Bank
P. O. Box 408
Wildey, St. Michael,
BB11000
BARBADOS, W.I.
