Collection, Modelling, Analysis and Reporting of Climate Data- UWI, Mona
10 Oct 2017
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, MONA
STATE OF THE CARIBBEAN CIMATE 2016: INFORMATION FOR RESILIENCE BUILDING – REGIONAL
CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE COLLECTION, MODELLING, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF CLIMATE DATA
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Background
The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona has received grant financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to EUR445,056 towards the cost of the State of the Caribbean Climate 2016 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 UWI Mona 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 UWI Mona shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.
Scope and Eligibility Criteria
UWI Mona, the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for the collection, modelling, analysis and reporting of climate data. The objective of the consultancy is to collect, analyse and report climate data for the preparation of the “State of the Caribbean Climate Report 2016: Information for Resilience Building”.
UWI Mona now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest (EOIs), in the form of a Curriculum Vitae (CV), indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services. Consultants may submit their CVs for any of the following positions:
(a) Technical Assistant (1 Year)
(b) Technical Assistant (4 Months)
(c) Technical Assistant (1 Month)
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
(a) the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country, as outlined in Appendix 1 below; 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.
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.
Selection Criteria
The main assessment criteria for each of the positions have been provided below. In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to qualifications and experience on similar assignments.
(a) Technical Assistant (1 Year) and Technical Assistant (4 Months)
- Bachelor Degree in Climate Science, Meteorology, Climatology, Environmental Science or related disciplines.
- 12 months working experience in climate and environmental modelling;
- 12 months working experience in climate data analysis;
- 12 months working experience with programming/coding/scripting
- 12 months working experience in statistical analysis; and
- Good oral and written communication skills.
(b) Technical Assistant (1 Month)
- Final Year Undergraduate Study in Climate Science, Meteorology, Climatology, Environmental Science or related disciplines.
- 3 months working experience in climate data analysis;
- 3 months working experience with programming/coding/scripting
- 3 months working experience in statistical analysis; and
- Good oral and written communication skills.
Submission and Assessment of EOIs
Expressions of Interest must be submitted in English and electronically by email to socc_procurement@uwimona.edu.jm in pdf format no later than 1630 hours Jamaica time on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at second address below. The email subject line should state “Expression of Interest – Consultancy for the Collection, Modelling, Analysis and Reporting of Climate Data”. The email body must state the name and address of the applicant, as well as the position(s) he/she wishes to be considered for, i.e., Technical Assistant (1 year), Technical Assistant (4 Months) and/or Technical Assistant (1 Month). The Expression of Interest will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is successfully delivered to the email address specified above. One e-copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below.
Following the assessment of submissions, the most technically capable and appropriately experienced applicants will be invited to negotiate a contract to provide the consultancy services. UWI Mona 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.
Requests for Additional Information
Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 0900 and 1600 hours Monday to Friday. Interested persons can also access the Terms of Reference at: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/physics/sites/default/files/physics/uploads/TOR%20-%20Technical%20Assistants%20-%2010-04-2017.pdf.
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APPENDIX 1
EUROPEAN UNION ELIGIBILITY RULES
AFRICAN CARIBBEAN PACIFIC – EUROPEAN UNION
NATURAL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
PARTICIPATION IN PROCEDURES FOR THE AWARDING OF
PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS OR GRANT CONTRACTS
1. Participation in procedures for the award of procurement contracts financed under the EU Contribution Agreement for the Implementation for the Action entitled: “Africa Caribbean Pacific – European – Caribbean Development Bank (ACP-EU-CDB) Natural Disaster Risk Management in CARIFORUM Countries” (ACP – EU NDRM Resources)”, is open to international organisations and all natural persons who are nationals of, or legal persons who are established in, an eligible country.
2. Eligible countries1are deemed to be:
(a) Caribbean Development Bank member countries:
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Columbia, Dominica, Germany, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Italy, Mexico, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.
(b) Members of the “African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States”2:
Africa:
South Africa3, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros Islands, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Caribbean:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.
Pacific:
Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
Overseas Countries and Territories:
Anguilla, Antarctic, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Greenland, Mayotte, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos, Wallis and Futuna Islands.
(c) A Member State of the European Union:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
An official candidate country of the European Union:
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Iceland, Montenegro.
A Member State of the European Economic Area: Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway.
(d) All natural persons who are nationals of, or legal persons who are established in, a Least Developed Country as defined by the United Nations:
Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Djibouti, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Rep. and Zambia.
(e) Participation in procedures for the award of procurement contracts or grants financed from the Facility shall be open to all natural persons who are nationals of, or legal persons established in, any country other than those referred to in paragraph 1, where reciprocal access to external assistance has been established. Reciprocal access in the Least Developed Countries as defined by the United Nations (UN) shall be automatically granted to the OECD/DAC members: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
- Services under a contract financed from the Facility may be provided by experts of any nationality, without prejudice to the qualitative and financial requirements set out in the Bank’s procurement rules.
- Supplies and materials purchased under a contract financed from the Facility must originate in a State that is eligible under paragraph 1. In this context, the definition of the concept of ’originating products’ shall be assessed by reference to the Bank’s prevailing procurement guidelines/procedures, and supplies originating in the EU shall include supplies originating in the Overseas Countries and Territories.
- Whenever the Facility finances an operation implemented through an international organisation, participation in procedures for the award of procurement contracts or grants shall be open to all natural and legal persons who are eligible under paragraphs 1, care being taken to ensure equal treatment of all donors. The same rules apply for supplies and materials.
- Whenever the Facility finances an operation implemented as part of a regional initiative, participation in procedures for the award of procurement contracts or grants shall be open to all natural and legal persons who are eligible under paragraph 1, and to all natural and legal persons from a country participating in the relevant initiative. The same rules apply for supplies and materials.
- Whenever the Facility finances an operation co-financed with a third entity, participation in procedures for the award of procurement contracts or grants shall be open to all natural and legal persons eligible under paragraph 1, and to all persons eligible under the rules of the third entity. The same rules shall apply to supplies and materials.
Caveat: The Bank and EU eligibility requirements are subject to change by the Bank and the EU. The applicant is responsible for checking whether there have been any updates on the eligibility requirements, as well as the UN’s list of Least Developed Countries.
1 Note some countries may be eligible by virtue of more than one category
2 Cotonou Partnership Agreement of 23 June 2000 (as amended by the provisional application of Decision No 1/2000 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 27 July 2000, Decision No 1/2000 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 18 October 2000, Decision No 1/2001 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 20 April 2001, Decision No 2/2001 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 20 April 2001, Decision No 3/2001 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 10 May 2001, Decision No 4/2001 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 27 June 2001, Decision No 5/2001 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 7 December 2001, Decision No 2/2002 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 28 October 2002, Decision No 1/2003 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 16 may 2003, Council Decision (EC) of 19 December 2002, Decision No 1/2004 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 6 may 2004, Decision No 2/2004 of the ACP – EC customs cooperation committee of 30 June 2004 and Decision No 4/2005 of the ACP-EC customs cooperation committee of 13 April 2005).
3 Natural and legal South African persons are eligible to participate in contracts financed by the 10th/11th EDF. However, the 10th/11th EDF does not finance contracts in South Africa.
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