Background
The UNDP Legal Office is seeking a consultant to support ongoing review/research projects in the area of corporate and institutional law.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant is required to, inter alia, assist the Senior Legal Adviser of the Corporate and Institutional Law Practice Group with the legal research, analysis, drafting, logistics and coordination associated with pending corporate and institutional matters. In particular, and in connection with these matters, the consultant’s duties will include:
Assistance with the preparation of legal advice on a wide range of corporate and institutional issues, including on the interpretation and application of UNDP regulations, rules, policies and procedures.
Assistance with the review and preparation for negotiation of contracts for UNDP headquarters units and country offices, including leases, goods, and services contracts.
Legal research on institutional matters, involving, inter alia, relationships with governments, inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental and private sector entities.
Assistance with the settlement of claims and disputes arising from commercial contracts, agreements and other arrangements involving UNDP.
In addition to the above, the Consultant will be required to generally assist with other work performed by Corporate and Institutional Legal Practice Group as required.
Expected Outputs and Deliverables:
Deliverables/ Outputs Review and Approvals Required
Inputs to legal advice on Institutional matters Senior Legal Adviser, Corporate and Institutional Law Practice Group
Inputs to legal advice and assistance on programming matters Senior Legal Adviser, Corporate and Institutional Law Practice Group
Inputs to legal advice and assistance on claims and contract terms and negotiations Senior Legal Adviser, Corporate and Institutional Law Practice Group
Inputs to legal advice and assistance on financing agreements with various vendors and donors Senior Legal Adviser, Corporate and Institutional Law Practice Group
Institutional Arrangements
The consultant will be supervised by the Senior Legal Adviser of the Corporate and Institutional and will provide daily oral reporting and participate regularly in departmental weekly case status meetings. Administrative/Logistics support provided.
Duration of the Work
The consultant is expected to work 5 days/week. A contract will be issued for an initial period of 3 months with the possibility of extension up to 6 months.
Competencies
- Client orientation with constructive approach to resolution of problems, timely support and respect for deadlines;
- Excellent analytical skills;
- Excellent drafting skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a sense of initiative;
- Excellent communication skills, oral and written;
- Ability to work with utmost discretion in handling sensitive and confidential matters;
- Excellent organizational skills;
- Ability to work under pressure;
- Knowledge of UNDP policies and procedures, including procurement procedures and the Financial Regulations and Rules, would be an advantage.
- Familiarity with the UNDP privileges and immunities as per the General Convention and the Standard Basic Assistance Agreements would be an advantage.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
An advanced degree in law (Master’s level) or equivalent.
Experience:
- A minimum of 1 year of relevant experience with a law firm, a corporation and government, or an international organization’s legal office;
- Knowledge of the UNDP legal framework
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English
- Working knowledge of French or Spanish desirable
Documents to be included when submitting the proposals
Proposal: Cover letter: brief description of why the Offeror considers her/himself the most suitable for the assignment; and
Personal CV or UNDP P-11 Form, indicating past experience from similar projects and specifying the relevant assignment period (from/to), as well as the email and telephone contacts of at least three (3) professional references.
Financial proposal
Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.
Financial Proposal
Lump sum contracts
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days).
Travel;
All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.
In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
Evaluation:
Applicants are shortlisted based on Required Skills and Experience stated in the TOR. Having reviewed applications received, UNDP will invite the top three shortlisted offerors for interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Applicants will be evaluated based on cumulative scoring. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
- Being responsive/compliant/acceptable.
- Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.
- Technical criteria weight including Presentation/Interview Score (70%).
- Financial criteria weight/Financial Proposal (30%).
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (490 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (700 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation.
Technical evaluation - Total 70% (700 points):
Financial evaluation - Total 30% (300 points)
Evaluation
Applicants are shortlisted based on Required Skills and Experience stated in the TOR. Having reviewed applications received, UNDP will invite the top three shortlisted offerors for interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Applicants will be evaluated based on cumulative scoring. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
• Being responsive/compliant/acceptable.
• Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.
• Technical criteria weight including Presentation/Interview Score (70%).
• Financial criteria weight/Financial Proposal (30%).
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (490 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (700 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation.
Technical evaluation - Total 70% (700 points):
Financial evaluation - Total 30% (300 points)
Criteria Weight Max. Point
Technical 70% 700
Relevant experience in the providing inputs on institutional matters, Inputs to legal advice and assistance on programming matters, Inputs to legal advice and assistance on claims and contract terms and negotiations, Inputs to legal advice and assistance on financing agreements with various vendors and donors 40% 400
Experience in Legal research on institutional matters, involving, inter alia, relationships with governments, inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental and private sector entities.
10% 100
Interview 20% 200
Financial 30% 300
Contract Award
Candidate obtaining the highest combined scores in the combined score of Technical and Financial evaluation will be considered technically qualified and will be offered to enter into contract with UNDP.
Any request for clarification must be sent by email to cpu.bids@undp.org
The UNDP Central Procurement Unit will respond by email and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants.
ANNEXES
- ANNEX 1 - UNDP P-11 Form for ICs and SCs
- ANNEX 2 – Financial Proposal Template
- ANNEX 3 - IC Contract Template
- ANNEX 4 - INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These form and templates can be found on the UNDP Procurement Notice website using the following link:
http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=28854