Overview
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
The Government of Grenada (GOGR) has applied for financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$200,000 towards the cost of Supporting Capacity Building of the Ministry of Mobilisation, Implementation and Transformation and intends to apply 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 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 Mobilisation, Implementation and Transformation, the Implementing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist.
Terms of reference can be found at: https://www.procurement.gd/docs/Contracts/tors/11jan2024-cdb-ta-65grntor.pdf.
The objective of the consultancy is to effectively design policies and tools to monitor and evaluate high priority projects contained within the Public Sector Investment Programme of Grenada. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 24 months.
The Ministry of Mobilisation, Implementation and Transformation now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.
Eligibility
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
- 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. 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 8:00 and 14:00 hours Monday to Friday, Atlantic Standard Time.
One electronic copy of the Expressions of Interest must be received at the email addresses marked in #1 below and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the address marked #2 below, no later than 11:59pm (Atlantic Standard Time) on Friday 9th, February 2024. The submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist”.
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. The 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.