Background

The Lao PDR Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) has been designed to support the central, provincial and district authorities in the effective promotion, regulation and enforcement of foreign, domestic and public investments. Main target areas include governance of natural resources (SDG 15), poverty reduction (SDG 1), enhancing development of human capital (SDG 8), minimizing impact on the environment (SDG 15), adapting to climate change (SDG13), promoting clean energy investment (SDG7), supporting a diversified economy and providing a fair distribution of benefits to the population (SDG 5), and promoting partnership through knowledge exchange (SDG17).

Initiated in 2009, the PEI programme has transformed into what the government now calls the “PEI approach” that addresses poverty reduction and environmental protection by supporting the Government’s national socio-economic planning and strategy formulation processes. The programme also focused on building investment regulatory tools and the knowledge to assess, measure and enforce financial, social and environmental obligations of developers. Another aspect includes strengthening Lao PDR’s National Assembly’s ability to deliver their constitutional oversight role on investment quality.

The Improving Quality Investment for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Lao PDR (September 2018 – August 2022) will build on the package of tools already established by the PEI Programme while further expanding the PEI’s Approach and tools to other important institutions that play a role in investment regulatory compliance. The objective of the project is to strengthen coordination of government’s regulatory capacity to coordinate and promote higher quality investment, improvement the ease-of-doing business, transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of investment management for achieving the sustainable development goals in Lao PDR.

 

In 2020, Lao PDR has endorsed the Decree on Public-Private Partnership to boost the investments in this area. PPP in Laos mainly divided into two types of proposals including: Frist, solicited PPP refers to the PPP project proposal that the government agency develops from an idea for a project that responds to an identified infrastructure challenge (set forth in an infrastructure plan or strategy), after which it prepares and develops the project (together with its external advisors). Second, the unsolicited PPP is a proposal initiated by a private company to undertake a PPP project which is not based on the request from the government.

 

To strengthen the Public-Private Partnership (PP) regulation framework and ability of government official to develop and manage PPP projects, PEA is seeking for a qualified international consultant to develop the guideline on managing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) solicited and unsolicited proposals and PPP Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Decree.

Duties and Responsibilities

 

 

  • Conducts desk review and data collection to study the status quo of PPP enabling environment and existing PPP regulations, existing studies in Laos to identify gaps in managing PPP solicited and unsolicited proposals and provides recommendations to address these gaps;
  • Identifies international best practices for enabling and managing PPP solicited and unsolicited proposals that are applicable to the Lao PDR context;
  • Base on the study, develops a guideline for government official to select solicited project list, analyst the potentials, feasibility and impacts of the project, and project profile template.
  • Leads the process of developing two complete solicited PPP project profiles.
  • Develops Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) entail the processes of selecting private partners and manage the whole cycle of solicited and unsolicited proposals base on the best practices that tailored to Lao regulation framework. The SOP is expected to include bidding procedures, bidding criteria, bidding evaluation and rewarding procedure). The SOP should also include the project monitor after the implementation.
  • Conducts training on the guideline and SOP to reflect how the recommended policy guideline and institutional processes should be applied to a PPP project;

 

The consultant is expected to deliver the followings outputs in English.

  • The Guideline on developing solicited PPP proposals and profile template;
  • Two complete solicited PPP project profiles;
  • Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for managing solicited and unsolicited PPP projects;
  • Training on Guideline on developing solicited PPP proposals and the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for managing solicited and unsolicited PPP project;

MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

  • The consultant will report to the National Project Director as necessary against the deliverable progress for administrative purpose.
  • The consultant is also required to comply with the UN security directives set forth under http://dss.un.org
  • The consultant will be given access to relevant information necessary for execution of the tasks under this assignment;
  • The consultant is responsible for providing their own laptop computers and mobile phones for use during this assignment; the consultant must have access to reliable internet connection
  • Payments will be made upon submission of a detailed time sheet and certification of payment form, and acceptance and confirmation by the supervisor

 

Competencies

  • Prove strong research and analytical skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to establish and maintained effective work relationship with people of different national and cultural backgrounds
  • Experience with Government of Laos would be considered important asset
  • Excellent written and spoken English is a must and knowledge of Lao is an asset  

Required Skills and Experience

The successful applicant should have the following expertise and qualifications:

  • Advanced University degree in economics, business administration, law, public administration and development related field
  • At least 7 years of relevant and progressive experience and knowledge on managing Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects
  • Proven experienced and knowledgeable in developing potential PPP project proposals
  • Prove experience in providing capacity building on PPP and knowledge transfer

 

Requirements for submission of proposals 

All interested and qualified International Consultant should apply on-line using the following links: 

UNDP Lao PDR Country Office website at https://www.la.undp.org/content/lao_pdr/en/home/jobs.html  or  

In order to make your submission, please read the relevant documents available on the link below 

  1. FULL TOR (Annex I) 
  2. IC General Terms and Conditions _ Annex II; 
  3. OFFEROR’S LETTER TO UNDP CONFIRMING INTEREST AND AVAILABILITY _ Annex III 
  4. P11 Form 

 

Documents to be included when submitting the proposals: 

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications: 

  1. Technical Proposal 

            (i)  Explaining why you are the most suitable for the work; 

            (ii)  Providing a brief methodology on how you will approach and conduct the work including the work 

                  schedule for the delivery of outputs/deliverable; 

  1. P11 Form  Education and work experience, including past experience in similar projects and contact references of at least 3 references for whom you have rendered preferably the similar services; 
  2. Financial proposal:  Detailed financial proposal: Lump sum offer with clear cost breakdown against each deliverable. Please use this template OFFEROR’S LETTER TO UNDP CONFIRMING INTEREST AND AVAILABILITY _ Annex III 

 

Instructions for on-line submissions: 

Step 1:  Please prepare all required documents electronically; 

Step 2: Combine all documents in ONE SINGLE FILE (preferably in PDF however Word format can be also accepted) and upload to the UNDP Jobs using the links above; 

Step 3: After that you will receive an auto reply from the UNDP jobs if your offer is received successfully. 

 

Incomplete proposals or proposals received after the deadline will be rejected. 

 

Note:  Any request for clarification must be sent in writing before the submission deadline to the following emails:                                 

surith.sengsavang@undp.org with copy to thome.xaisongkham@undp.org