Background
- Civil: the use as fire extinguisher in buildings (e.g. data centers);
- Military: the use in aviation (including civil aviation), tanks and submarines, between others.
- Provision of Technical Assistance;
- Establishment of Halons Banks.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Providing Technical Assistance to end-users in the alternative technology implementation;
- Support the NOU in the implementation of the management strategy;
- Deliver technical assistance to military users in the evaluation of current banks, technological replacements available, general retrofit plans (including cost estimation, time-frame and disposal of old equipment);
- Support in the implementation of Capacity Building Seminars, delivery of technical assistance to the Halons end-users from civil and military sectors, through a seminar on replacement alternatives; and
- Give guidance to the implementation of Halons Banks (including design technical specifications of equipment and give orientation on the physical operation of the Banks if required).
Duty Station:
Home based, with missions to Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Fees:
The consultant will receive the payment based in deliverables. The candidate shall quote his/her services including all travel costs needed to the attendance of the tentative missions listed below. Missions not foreseen shall be paid to the consultant as per IC Rules and Principles.
A Best value for Money approach will be used in the evaluation of the applicants, and will lead to a combined score for technical capabilities and the financial offer. The short listed candidates, based on their technical capabilities, will receive the standard format that they must fill out to submit their financial offer.
- D1 Halons Management Strategy (including training strategy) delivered; Home Based;
- D2 Technology Replacement Seminars (civil and military) delivered; Mission to Santiago, 3 days (expected for July 29th , 2013);
- D3 Best Practices Guidelines Halon Management Programme delivered; Home Based;
- D4 Technical assistance for the halon bank(s) delivered. Mission to Santiago, 3 days (expected for September, 2013);
- D5 Project Completion/Closure documents/reports delivered; Home Based.
Competencies
Core Competencies:
- Demonstrate integrity by modeling UN values and ethical standards;
- Promote the vision, mission, and strategic in goals of the UNDP and the CPR Unit;
- Displays cultural, gender , religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Required Skills and Experience
- Engineering or Equivalent Degree in Chemistry, Mechanics, Electrical or related field;
- Advanced degree in relevant discipline is desirable.
- Working experience of at least 10 years with development, implementation and/or monitoring of projects of fire extinguishment and its correlated areas with Halons systems;
- Knowledge on halons recovery/recycling equipment use, field application and/or installation and/or retrofit is desirable
- Working experience with military or civil fire extinguishment applications is desirable;
- Knowledge in then use or application of halons alternatives fire extinguisher agents is desirable;
- Knowledge of Montreal Protocol related policy is desirable;
- Working experience with similar projects in developing countries is desirable;
- Academic/research experience in the halons-related area is desirable.
- Proficiency in English;
- Knowledge of Spanish is desirable.
Technical Capabilities (70%): A Best value for Money approach will be used in the evaluation of the applicants, and will lead to a combined score for technical capabilities and the financial offer. Candidates scoring 60 points or less will be disqualified.
Candidate Score.
- Engineering or Equivalent Degree in Chemistry, Mechanics, Electrical or related field. 15
- Advanced degree in relevant discipline (desirable). +10
- Working experience of at least 10 years in in the area. 15
- Working experience of more than 11 years in the area (1 additional point for each 1 year of additional experience) (max) 10.
- Knowledge on halons recovery/recycling equipment (desirable) .10
- Working experience with military or civil fire extinguishment applications (desirable). 10
- Knowledge in then use or application of halons alternatives (desirable). 5
- Knowledge of Montreal Protocol policy (desirable). 5
- Working experience with in related projects in developing countries (desirable). 5
- Academic/research experience in the halons-related area (desirable). 5
- Proficiency in English language. 7
- Knowledge of Spanish language (desirable). 3
Maximum Score 100.
FC: 63030