SOW_Civil_sector_procurement_expert_MBO.pdf

INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SERVICES

Procurement Expert for Civil Works

I. Introduction

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a U.S. Government corporation whose mission is to provide assistance that will support economic growth and poverty reduction in carefully selected countries that demonstrate a commitment to just and democratic governance, economic freedom, and investments in their citizenry. For more information on the MCC, please visit www.mcc.gov.

The United States of America acting through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (“MCC”) has formed partnerships with some of the world’s poorest countries through large, five-year Grant Programs referred to as Compacts. MCC administers these Compacts through the Millennium Challenge Accounts (MCAs) which are entities that are set up locally to manage and oversee all aspects of the Compact implementation.

MCC has approved over $7 Billion in Poverty Reduction Compacts worldwide that support country-determined projects in such sectors as:

• agriculture and irrigation,

• transportation (roads, bridges, ports),

• water supply and sanitation,

• energy generation, distribution, and transmission

• hospitals and clinics,

• finance and enterprise development,

• anticorruption initiatives,

• land rights and access,

• schools and universities.

A large part of MCC’s portfolio is focused on the infrastructure sector, primarily in roads and building constructions, (Jointly defined as “civil works sector”), using the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (commonly known as FIDIC, acronym for its French name Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils) based contracts and MCC standard bidding documents for large and small works (see www.mcc.gov).

The Procurement Practice Group, a unit within the Sector Operations Division of MCC’s Department of Compact Operations, is committed to supporting MCC’s mission by following the highest standards of professional public procurement of goods, services and works necessary for the effective development and implementation of our Compacts. Procurement efforts under the Compacts are conducted by the host country MCA entity using the MCC Program Procurement

Guidelines (PPG) and standard bidding documents. The PPG are based on the World Bank procurement guidelines and standard bidding documents but with significant modifications. It is worth noting that MCC Compact-funded procurements are not conducted using the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).

Procurements funded under the Compacts are managed by one or more Procurement Agents (PA) serving the MCA entity. The PA, may be a government entity or a competitively hired private firm, works closely with the MCA entity to ensure that procurements are conducted in compliance with the PPG. MCC provides oversight on the MCA Entity and the PA activities.

For more information on the MCC PPG, please visit www.mcc.gov/pages/business/guidelines.

MCC’s maintains a monitoring role for ensuring that its funds are used effectively and efficiently, which requires MCC’s commitment for taking all reasonable steps to promote best procurement and contract administration practices.

II. Scope

MCC is seeking a short-term, intermittent consultant who has extensive procurement experience in civil construction works using FIDIC contracts in order to support MCC’s Procurement Practice Group in the development of tender documents for the civil works sector.

III. Tasks

The consultant will report to the Procurement Practice Group Lead/Contract Officer’s Representative (COR) and provide the following advisory services on as needed basis:

• Assist MCC as requested with approaches and strategies for the development of procurement documents that take into consideration latest sector trends, life-cycle costing analysis, value-for-money concepts and practices used in other donor agencies including multilaterals.

• Assist MCC as requested with clarifications of FIDIC contracts and terminology used in these documents, and help draft procurement documents with relevant clauses.

• Advice MCC on market analysis and market outreach and communication strategies to attract capable, available and responsive bidders in the procurement process of this sector.

• Review and comment on MCA’s bid documents used for the sector procurements, and help review technical specifications, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, qualification requirements, contract conditions, warranties, and all other relevant pieces of the solicitation to improve the quality of the documents.

• Provide expert advisory services for procuring civil works requirements as well as support the Group in other procurement related activities such as help drafting and reviewing the bidding documents for any sector (water, energy, roads and buildings).

• Contribute to the knowledge and expertise of MCC by staying abreast of current trends in international public procurement related to the sector.

http://www.mcc.gov/pages/business/guidelines

• Recommend practices and procedures for implementing procurement lessons learned in the partner countries and with other donor agencies, including modifications in the PPG as relevant.

• Participate, observe, or supervise bid and proposal reviews in MCAs if so requested by

MCC.

• Contribute to MCC procurement practice group activities as requested by the COR, including preparing and conducting training seminars on behalf of or along with MCC staff.

• Participate in various forums on behalf of MCC along with MCC staff if so requested.

• Review MCC developed procurement templates such as Standard Bidding Documents

(SBDs), Procurement Operation Manual (POM) template, and others for consistency and accuracy.

• Prepare new procurement templates or suggest modifications to the existing ones.

IV. Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Trip reports to the MCC COR to succinctly summarize findings and recommendations.

Deliverable 2: The Consultant shall respond to requests from the MCC COR on a variety of activities and deliverables related to procurement activities, and other such matters that may be needed for any specific task.

Final Report: This report will include the final observations and recommendations of the Consultant highlighting any additional analysis that may be required at the end of the Contract.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Compliance with all task requirements in a manner demonstrating experience, timeliness and attention to detail;

• High quality work products that reflect sound analytical reasoning;

• Evidence of effective communications with MCC and MCA procurement team members;

• All work products will be submitted in English in hard and electronic copy.

V. Country

Multiple countries.

VI. Period and Place of Performance

Multiple experts may be hired out of this announcement, and the tasks and budget will be distributed according to the skills and availability and the government requirements.

This consultancy maybe filled as a short or long term consultancy with a base period of twelve

(12) months. The total estimated number of hours for multiple experts is 1,400 in the base period.

The consultant will work from its home office and/or MCC headquarters or any MCC eligible country.

VII. Evaluation Criteria

Minimum qualifications:

• More than seven (7) years of procurement experience working on multilateral funded projects, developing procurement documents, managing contractors, or supervising government counterparts in managing contractors in consulting and/or construction works.

• Experience on working with procurement guidelines of multilateral agencies, specifically the World Bank or Asian Development Bank.

• More than five (5) years of experience working in the preparation of tender documents in accordance with FIDIC’s Red Book.

• Experience working with multiple developing countries.

• The consultant must be proficient in reading, speaking, and writing English

• Three professional references from clients or former supervisors.

• Bachelor level degree or equivalent in business, economics, management or engineering.

MCC reserves the right to interview the candidates.

Candidates with the following qualifications will be given additional consideration:

• Advanced Degree in engineering, economics, or international business.

• Experience working with MCC’s procurement guidelines.

• Experience working in a French and/or Spanish speaking country.

• Experience working in the preparation of tender documents in accordance with FIDIC’s

Yellow Book.

• Proficiency reading, speaking, and writing Spanish.

VIII. Other requirements:

International travel will be required. The Government estimates the consultant to travel at least six (6) times for a total of sixty (60) days during the period of performance. Each travel is expected to have a duration of at least six (6) days. The Government will pay for traveling on a reimbursable basis. If multiple experts are hired, the travel will be distributed among the selected experts based on the government needs.