Procurement Notice

The Sustainable Energy Unit (SEU) of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is seeking individual consultants who are electricity sector regulatory professionals and specialists to be included in CDB’s electricity sector regulatory expert roster (ESRER). 

The objective of the ESRER is to facilitate a timely and adequate procurement of relevant competent and experienced professionals and specialists familiar with small island developing states’ appropriate regulatory frameworks, including instruments, capacity, and institutional arrangements. As a consequence, the Bank will be able to increase the quality and timeliness of electricity sector regulatory strengthening and reform project implementation in BMCs.  Where relevant, CDB will draw on the ESRER for candidates to provide technical assistance being pursued directly by CDB in its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) or as part of CDB sponsored programmes under the Bank’s Accelerated Sustainable Energy and Resilience Transition (ASERT) 2030 framework.  In addition, CDB reserves the right to use this database to promote experts to other international agencies or programmes/projects.

Assignments may include but are not limited to:

1. Supporting CDB in the development of Regional Electricity Sector Regulatory ASERTive

1. 1. The review and analysis of regulatory frameworks of a subset of 19 CDB BMCs to identify gaps and weakness relevant to CDB’s minimum regulatory functions (MRF).

1. 2. Support implementation of measures to address identified gaps relative to the MRF. 

1. 3. Support review outputs from partner programmes.

1. 4. Support advocacy in BMCs for buy-in for the MRF.

1. 5. Support research and development of case studies/think pieces.

2. Providing Regulatory Management Services or On-call Techno-economic Services under the  Regional Help Desk, as deemed relevant (This will be established within a selected regional organization)

1. Participate as part of governance team to the Regional Help Desk. i.e. part of review panel for requests.

2. Provide advisory services in response to various requests (legal/engineering/economic ) from BMCs/regulatory bodies.

3. Providing Capacity Strengthening in BMCs and for Partner Organisations

1. Support development of strategic plan for partner regulatory organisations.

2. Review and assessment of human and institutional capacity needs of regulatory agencies.

3. Develop and implement specific training interventions to address identified needs.

4. Reviewing and drafting of primary legislations and regulations.

5. Providing regulatory mediation services among key stakeholders in countries.

1. Provide ‘honest-broker’ facilitator role between any two, or among the following stakeholders, viz: representatives of government, regulatory body, and electric utility.

For further details of the background to this requirement and the anticipated scope of works please see the attached file ESRER: Background and Requirements. 

Successful candidates will be registered on the ESRER for an initial period of two (2) years, with the possibility of a further one (1) year extension and may be subject to future re-validation.  Entry into the roster does not provide a guarantee of any work, with assignments dependent on the needs of the Bank and its BMCs.  Also, in some cases, further selection process, based on the procurement rules and regulations for the assignment in question, may be required. 

CDB shall conclude framework agreements, with agreed daily fee rates, with candidates deemed to have the necessary qualifications and experience and these consultants shall form part of the ESRER.  CDB will compare and select consultants from the ESRER for specific assignments and “call down” services under their framework agreements.  CDB reserves the right to consider the use of individual consultants outside of the ESRER, as necessary, and to share details of consultants on the ESRER with CDB client agencies who are seeking to contract individual regulatory consultants in their own right under CDB financed projects.