Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-29
Buyer: The Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan
Country: TJ
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45233142: Road-repair work | 71310000
Submission deadline: 2018-06-22
Award criteria: Other

Technical requirements: This Invitation for Expressions of Interest follows the General Procurement Notice for this project which was published on the EBRD website, Project Procurement Notices (http://www.ebrd.com/pages/workingwithus/procurement/project.shtml) on 20.1.2015.
The Client now invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals who are interested in providing assistance to the client to facilitate the timely and effective implementation of the Project by assisting the Employer on the financial matters as a Financial Specialist.
The main task of Financial Specialist is to assist the PIU within his/her area of expertise on financial issues, implementation and monitoring of the financial plans of the project.
— 2 years of similar experience in the payment procedures in projects funded by international donors. Experience in the EBRD's projects will be considered as an advantage,
— 1 years of work with 1-C accounting, knowledge of accounting and financial procedures, norms and rules,
The assignment is expected to start immediately after selection of a Consultant and respective consultancy contract signature (which is expected by the end of June 2018) with estimated total duration of 34 (thirty four) months.
Eligibility: Procurement will be open for all the consultants except those restricted in the EBRD’s list of ineligible entities. The proceeds of the loan shall not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities or for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations and the Client’s Country prohibitions.
Procurement of the consultancy services will be conducted in accordance with the EBRD’s Procurement Policies and Rules. The consultants will be selected following the shortlisting procedures. The selection will normally be made from responses to this notification only. Consultants will NOT be asked to submit a proposal. The highest-ranked Consultant will be selected from a shortlist and be invited to negotiate the contract, subject to availability of funding.
If the Consultant has been found by a judicial process or other official enquiry to have engaged in corrupt or fraudulent practices, details of the basis for the outcome of such process or enquiry shall be provided with the expression of interest.
The Client reserves the right not to shortlist consulting firms that have been found to have engaged in corrupt or fraudulent practices regardless of the results of technical evaluation of the expressions of interest.
In order to determine the qualifications and competence of the consults seeking to be shortlisted, the information submitted should include the following:
1) CV qualifications, experience in similar assignments, particularly assignments undertaken in the previous 5 (five) years, including information on contracting entity/client, project location/country, duration (mm/yy to mm/yy), expert months provided, assignment budget, main activities, objectives.
2) Completed Consultant Declaration and Contact Sheet, the template for which is available from the following web-link: http://www.ebrd.com/pages/workingwithus/procurement/notices/csu/contact_sheet.doc
The above information should not exceed 10 pages. The complete expression of interest, original in English, 1 copy in English and 1 copy in Russian and one electronic copy in PDF format, should be submitted to the address specified below in an envelope marked "Expression of Interest for the Financial Specialist for Dushanbe — Uzbekistan Border Road Improvement Project ", and shall be delivered to the client not later than 17:00 Dushanbe time on 22.6.2018.