Bureau of Standards Jamaica dba National Certification Body of Jamaica Project to Facilitate Implementation of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 at the National Certification Body of Jamaica and to Train Auditors in a Selected Food Safety Management System Certification

Project Name

Role/Service

Implementation of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 at the National Certification Body of Jamaica and to train auditors in a selected Food Safety Management System Certification Scheme. Extended

Country

Jamaica

Deadline

May 24, 2021

04:00 PM

Type

Consultancy

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Overview

Bureau of Standards Jamaica dba National Certification Body of Jamaica (NCBJ) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to € 157,552 towards the cost to enhance their capacity to offer new certification services in specific food safety management systems that will benefit food exporters from Jamaica and other CARIFORUM countries 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 BSJ dba NCBJ 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 BSJ dba NCBJ shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.

BSJ dba NCBJ, the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for the Implementation of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 at the National Certification Body of Jamaica and to train auditors in a selected Food Safety Management System Certification Scheme.

The objective of this consultancy is to facilitate the implementation of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 at the NCBJ towards accreditation, which is required for the organisation to provide FSMS certification services to food manufacturers/exporters; and to train external auditors in ISO/IEC 17065:2012 and the selected FSMS requirements towards certification. Such auditors will support the NCBJ to provide FSMS certification services to food manufacturers/exporters.

Further details can be found in the attached Terms of Reference. It is estimated that this consultancy will require 141 person-days per year over a period of 24 calendar months.

BSJ dba NCBJ now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.

Eligibility

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, as well as countries which are eligible for under EU procurement which are not CDB Member Countries[1].

Consultants shall also fulfil the following additional criteria:

(a) is not bankrupt or insolvent or in the process of either, or having their affairs administered by the Courts, has not entered into an arrangement with creditors, is in any analogous situation arising from similar procedures provided for in their national legislation or regulations;

(b) has not been convicted of an offence concerning their professional conduct by a judgment which has the force of res judicata;

(c) has not been the subject of a judgment which has the force of res judicata for fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organization or any other illegal activity detrimental to the EU’s financial interest;

(d) is not subject to prevailing suspension or sanctions by CDB and 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 the aforementioned agreement for integrity violations;

(e) is not guilty of misrepresentation in supplying the information required as a condition of the participation in the procedure or if they fail to supply this information; and

(f) does not have a conflict of interest.

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.

[1] See Part II of Appendix A2a of Practical Guide to contract procedures for EU external actions (PRAG)

Instructions

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. Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.

All submissions must be in English. Further information if necessary, may be obtained from the first email address below between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday.

An electronic copy of the Expressions of Interest must be sent in PDF format to the email in the first address below no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday May 24, 2021 and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second email address below. The Expression of Interest will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is received by BSJ dba NCBJ at the first email address below. 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 to facilitate implementation of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 at the National Certification Body of Jamaica and to train auditors in a selected Food Safety Management System Certification Scheme -– CDB Project”.

The selection method shall be Consultants’ Qualifications selection. Therefore, following the assessment of submissions, firms shall be assessed and compared, and the best qualified and experienced firm shall be selected. Only the selected firm shall be asked to submit a combined technical and financial proposal and, if such proposal is responsive and acceptable, be invited to negotiate a contract. BSJ dba NCBJ 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 inform or 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.

Contact

Address 1

Navenia Wellington Ford

Manager

Address 2

Procurement Officer

procurement@caribank.org

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