Monitoring and Evaluation – Enhancement of Immigration Services Project – Barbados

GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS

ENHANCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION SERVICES PROJECT

CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The Government of Barbados (GOBD) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$6,474,000 towards the cost of the Enhancement of Immigration Services 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 GOBD 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 GOBD shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.

The Barbados Tourism Investments Inc, the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for Monitoring and Evaluation.

The objective of the consultancy is to develop a comprehensive results-based monitoring and evaluation system for measuring the achievement of project outputs during implementation and achievement of the expected development outcomes. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of six (6) months.

Barbados Tourism Investments Inc now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest for the provision of these consultancy services.

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.

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.

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. All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm hours Monday to Friday.

Five (5) hard copies of the Expressions of Interest must be received at the first address below no later than 3.00 pm on Monday, April, 10, 2017 and one hard copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below. The sealed envelope containing each submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for Monitoring and Evaluation”.

Following the assessment of submissions, a short-list of not less than three and not more than six applicants will be provided with full terms of reference and invited to submit technical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment. GOBD 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 short-listing any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.

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