Background
BACKGROUND
The United Nations Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption (UN-PRAC) project aims to promote and strengthen measures to prevent and fight corruption more efficiently and effectively in the Pacific region. This aligns with the purpose of UNCAC in article 1(1) and the spirit of SDG 16. The objectives of this Project are three-fold. The first is to provide Niue, Samoa and Tonga with sufficient information and support to enable their accession to UNCAC; and to support Pacific States parties to actively participate in the UNCAC review process. The second objective is to support PICs to strengthen their national anti-corruption legislation and policies, as well as institutional frameworks and capabilities to effectively implement UNCAC. The third is to provide support on the demand side of accountability, primarily through supporting a stronger engagement of non-State actors in the oversight of corruption and in the design of tools for a more transparent service delivery. This Project will further draw on the technical expertise, tools and knowledge produced by the anti-corruption projects being implemented by UNDP and UNODC with the support of DFAT. It will also use those projects as platforms to share Pacific progress on UNCAC implementation with the global community. |
Duties and Responsibilities
OBJECTIVES AND OUTPUTS
The UNDP Pacific Office is seeking the services of a Consultant to support its anti-corruption (AC) work, namely under the UN-PRAC project, implemented in partnership with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The outputs expected from this consultancy to achieve the objectives in 13 of the 15 countries that UN-PRAC covers (including Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu) are as follows:
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Scope of Work Specifically, the consultant will deliver in the following areas:
Key deliverables: • In consultation with the UN-PRAC team, the consultant will develop a work plan/ToRs for each deliverable. This would include both home based deliverables and those that require missions; • Knowledge products; • Report after each assignment, including and • A final report, to be delivered two weeks after the end of the assignment. Reporting The Consultant will be reporting to the UNDP Anti-Corruption Specialist and the UNODC Anti-Corruption Advisor. The Consultant will be consulting and taking into consideration the views of other interested parties, particularly the UNDP Pacific Office. The Consultant is obliged to submit a final report after the finalization of the assignment, containing reflections on the performed tasks, deliverables, observations and recommendations for future steps. Duration of the Work The consultant will be required to work for 85 days spread over12 months (July 2019 – June 2020.) Contract Arrangement The successful individual will sign the UNDP Individual Consultant Long Term Agreement. The engagement will be on an intermittent basis with the stated duration based on the required services. UNDP will issue separate terms of reference and purchase order for each specific assignment as a call-off from this IC LTA. The TOR will outline the expected outputs, and the number of days to be engaged. The outputs of the assignments will be reviewed by UNPRAC team. Duty Station The Consultant will be home based with required travel to selected Pacific island countries depending on the needs and requests of the specific PICs; Since travel will be requested on Ad-hoc basis, UNDP will purchase air tickets for the Consultant based on the most direct route and cost-effective route as per UNDP Travel Guideline. UNDP will also provide Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) to the Consultant for the duration of his/her stay at the respective duty station at UN approved DSA rates. The Consultant will be expected to provide reports after every detailed assignment, as well as mission reports when performing missions in the field.
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Competencies
COMPETENCIES
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Required Skills and Experience
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Educational Qualifications
Experience & skills
Language requirements
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EVALUATION
Evaluation Method and Criteria Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology: Cumulative analysis The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%). And financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment. Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)
Interviews maybe be conducted for the technically qualified consultants as part of the validation process. Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Daily Fee. 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. If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments shall be done on a monthly basis based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a Time Sheet indicating the days worked in the period. [Remove this paragraph if Lump sum is selected] In general, UNDP shall 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 event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. |
DOCUMENT SUBMISSION
Documentation required Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document:
Incomplete and joint proposal may not be considered. All required templates are available on the UNDP Procurement website: www.pacific.undp.org Annexe
Proposal Submission For further information concerning this Terms of Reference, please contact: Lavenia Rokovucago, Programme Associate, Anti-Corruption Project, UNDP Pacific Office Fiji, Suva, on e-mail lavenia.rokovucago@undp.org / telephone (679) 3227560. Completed proposals should be submitted to etenderbox.pacific@undp.org no later than 5pm (Fiji Time) 31st May 2019. Incomplete applications will not be considered, and only candidates for whom there is further interest will be contacted |
Application procedure:
Please combine all your documents (Signed P11/CV, Technical Proposal, Confirmation of Interesta and submission of financial proposal form, etc into one (1) single PDF document as this system only allows to upload maximum one document, failure to combine all document in one will be considered as incomplete and proposal will not be accepted”. You can email etenderbox.pacific@undp.org to request for these templates.