Background
UNDP is the world’s leading development organization, with a proud history of more than a half-century working in every corner of the world to fight poverty, create jobs, administer elections, prevent disaster and recover after crisis while protecting the planet. On the ground in about 170 countries and territories, we help countries develop strong policies, skills, partnerships and institutions so they can sustain their progress. The universal commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UN reform together present UNDP with the opportunity to focus our resources and expertise, and make a real impact on poverty, governance, energy, gender, human rights, resilience, and the environment.
In line with multilingualism, a core value of the UN, UNDP is a multicultural organization having three working languages: English, French and Spanish. UNDP individual contractors are expected to a) provide high quality simultaneous interpretation and translations in accordance with UN terminology guidelines b) provide high quality edited documents ensuring language fluency, accuracy, clarity and precision.
Under the supervision of the Head of the Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights team (ROLSHR), the Individual Consultant will be responsible for simultaneous interpretation Spanish to/from English during the several events the unit has during the year and as needed. Regarding translation the consultant will be responsible for the translating/editing/revision/proofreading documents for the required language. Any UNDP unit can assign translation/editing requests to vendors under contract and expect high quality of work, as they have been duly vetted and evaluated.
Duties and Responsibilities
Objective: The purpose of this procurement exercise is to contract an individual consultant who will enhance the communications, advocacy, marketing, outreach and multilingual efforts undertaken by UNDP to transform for a new era of sustainable development. The agreement will be awarded for up to 3 years based on satisfactory performance and funds availability. |
Duties and Responsibilities: Simultaneous Interpretation:
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Written Translation Spanish to/from English of UNDP content:
Expected translation outputs and deliverables: The consultant will be responsible for producing the following deliverables:
Translation (Spanish to/from English) Editing:
Expected translation editing outputs and deliverables: The consultant will be responsible for producing the following deliverables:
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Competencies
Corporate:
Functional:
Client Orientation and Communication:
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Required Skills and Experience
Academic Qualifications:
Experience:
Languages:
Application procedure: The application package containing the following (to be uploaded as one file):
Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document. Applications that do not contain the above-mentioned documents may be disqualified. Only those candidates that meet the minimum experience and qualification requirements will be invited to undertake a written examination (further detailed below). Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal.
The Financial Proposal is to be submitted as per the instruction in the separate email that will be sent ONLY to shortlisted candidates. Evaluation Process: Applicants are reviewed based on required qualifications, experience and competencies stated above and based on the technical evaluation criteria outlined below. 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:
Technical evaluation - Total 70% (70 points): The technical evaluation will comprise of desk review (50 points), and a written examination (20 points). All applicants will be initially screened against the minimum qualification requirements as specified above. Responsive candidates will then be further evaluated against the following criteria and shortlisted applicants invited for the written test:
The top three candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (35 points) of the maximum obtainable points for Desk Review (50 points) shall be considered for the written examination. Written Examination (20 obtainable points): Written examinations will be administered remotely. Candidates will be required to edit one (1) translation in Spanish to English and English to Spanish, which may include a statement or speech by a senior UN official, press release, blog, internal message, excerpt from a UNDP technical report, etc. Candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (14 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the written test (20 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Financial evaluation - Total 30% (30 points) The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal: p = y (µ/z), where p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal µ = price of the lowest priced proposal z = price of the proposal being evaluated Both home-based and office-based all-inclusive professional daily fees will be considered during the financial assessment and will have an equal impact on the evaluation’s result. The most competitive financial proposal for each of the categories (home-based and office-based) will be awarded a total of 15 points. Framework Agreement:
Contract Award: Candidate obtaining the highest combined score in the combined score of Technical and Financial evaluation will be considered technically qualified and will be offered to enter into contract with UNDP. Contractual Arrangements:
Payment modality
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Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents):
Annex 1 - UNDP P-11 Form for ICs
Annex 2 - IC Contract Template
Annex 3 – IC General Terms and Conditions
Annex 4 – RLA Template
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.