Overview
The Government of Saint Lucia (GOSL) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$9,858,750 towards the cost of the Building Resilience for Adaptation to Climate Change and Climate Variability in Agriculture in Saint Lucia 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.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries Food Security and Rural Development, the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for the Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant.
The objective of the consultancy is to provide support the Monitoring and Evaluation consultant in specific aspects of monitoring and evaluation as it relates to project implementation. He/she will be mainly responsible for data and information gathering to feed into the development of a systematic monitoring framework to improve qualitative and quantitative evidence required by the project. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 18 months with the possibility of an extension based on performance.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.
Eligiblity
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
(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.
Eligible countries are member countries of CDB. 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.
In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to qualifications and experience on similar assignments.
Instructions
All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm hours (A.S.T.) Monday to Friday.
Electronic copies of the Expressions of Interest must be sent via e-mail to the first addresses below no later than 4:00 p.m. (A.S.T.) October 13, 2023, and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below. Submissions shall include a cover page displaying the name and address of the applicant and the subject line shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for “Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant”.
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. 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 shortlisting any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.