Qualifications of the Successful Individual Contractor (IC)
Academic Qualifications
- Postgraduate qualifications in environmental sciences/climate change adaptation with significant knowledge of climate change adaptation, marine infrastructure design and assessments.
Important Note:
The Consultant is required to have the following professional and technical qualifications. Only the applicants who hold these qualifications will be shortlisted and contacted.
Years of experience
- At least 15 years of technical experience in designing projects on climate proofing and infrastructure investments;
- Demonstrated experience working on Donor funded, GCF and GEF projects;
- Demonstrated work experience with various stakeholders in government as well as development partners on gender issues;
- Proven experience of conducting similar nature of assignment in past preferably for INGOs / UN organizations;
- Experience in the formulation and management of similar projects with global funds including:
- Project design, management, and monitoring & evaluation;
- Design of logframe with SMART indicators, work plan and budget formulation;
- Working with multi-disciplinary teams, including local and expatriate technical experts;
- Experiences in analytical work, with strong analytical skills; exceptional ability in communication and networking, negotiations and writing;
- Flexibility and ability to operate in different cultural settings and with a variety of stakeholders; culturally and gender sensitive.
Language and other skills
- Fluency in English both written and oral.
Payment Milestones and Authority
The consultant must send a financial proposal based on Daily Fee. The consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. Travel costs and daily allowance cost should be identified separately.
Payments will be made based on the agreed financial proposal (contract is based on daily fee) and released upon submission of a certificate of payment request, indicating deliverables achieved and days worked to be verified and cleared for payment by the supervisor.
The qualified consultant shall receive his/her lump sum service fees upon certification of the completed tasks satisfactorily, as per the following payment schedule:
Installment of Payment/ Period: 1st Installment; Deliverables or Documents to be Delivered: Consultation Report; Approval should be obtained: UNDP; Percentage of Payment: 25%.
Installment of Payment/ Period: 2nd Instalment; Deliverables or Documents to be Delivered: Draft Project Idea Note; Approval should be obtained: UNDP; Percentage of Payment: 25%.
Installment of Payment/ Period: 3th Installment; Deliverables or Documents to be Delivered: Final Submission of Project Idea Note and Action Plan; Approval should be obtained: UNDP; Percentage of Payment: 50%.
Recommended Presentation of Offer
The following documents are requested:
- Duly completed Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
- Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references;
- Technical offer: Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment (including his/her experience using Financial Planning and Budgeting), and a methodology on how they will approach and complete the assignment;
- Financial Proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided by UNDP.
Criteria for Selection of the Best Offer
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:
Cumulative analysis
When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
- Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
- Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.
Short-listing criteria:
- Education: 15 Max. Point;
- Communications/Language: 5 Max. Point;
- Experience in the Climate Change Adaptation project design sector at international level: 20 Max. Point;
- Prior Experience in UNDP project design: 20 Max. Point;
- Brief Technical Proposal: 20 Max. Point;
- Experience in development of GEF/GCF/donor funded transport projects: 15 Max. Point;
- Reports writing and Presentation Skills: 5 Max. Point;
- TOTAL max.: 100 Max. Point;
Candidates scoring 70% or above will be short-listed.
The financial offers will be evaluated giving the lowest price proposal 30 marks and marking the other more expensive proposals reverse proportionally to the cheapest offer.
The final scoring of short-listed candidates will take into account the technical Evaluation and the financial score:
Criteria: Technical score; Weight: 70%; Max. Point: 70.
Criteria: Financial score; Weight: 30%; Max. Point: 30.
The candidate ranking highest shall be selected.
Important Note:
- Interested offeror is strongly advised to read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice/TOR, which can be viewed at http://www.mu.undp.org/content/mauritius_and_seychelles/en/home/operations/procurement/
- For more detail about term of references,general terms and conditions of IC and templates to be included when submitting offer;
- Interested offerors above the age of 62 and requiring travelling: UNDP regulations require, at their own cost, to undergo a full medical examination including x-rays. Medical evaluation documentation does not need to be submitted with the other requested documents listed above, but will be requested should the candidate be chosen;
- Interested offeror is required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system, because the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system;
- Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary.
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