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Team of National Consultants for supporting Municipality of Chisinau in assessment the efficiency of the Transport Department activities.

Vacancy Number: Pr20/01989

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	11 Mar 2020, 14:00 (GMT+2:00)
Starting date:	16 Mar 2020
Reference to the project:	Moldova Sustainable Green Cities - Catalyzing investment in sustainable green cities in the Republic of Moldova using a holistic integrated urban planning approach
Expected Duration of Assignment:	105 working days till July 2020
Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference Procurement Notice Offeror's Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Mr. Alexandru Rotaru.

Background

The objective of the project is to activate investments in low carbon green urban development based on an integrated urban planning approach by encouraging innovation, participatory planning and partnerships between a variety of public and private sector entities. 

As a tool for this, the project will support the design, launching, and establishment of the Green City Lab (hereafter GCL) to become the leading knowledge management and networking platform, clearinghouse, an inter-mediator of finance and a source of innovations and expertise to catalyze sustainable low carbon green city development in Moldova with a mission to transform Chisinau and other urban centers in Moldova into modern green and smart European cities with improved quality of life for their citizens, while also demonstrating opportunities for sustainable economic growth.

The Green City Lab is expected to be a self-sustaining entity, operating on a commercial basis (as part of the UNDP in initial stage and linked to municipality on a later stage), that does not rely on technical assistance funding alone, so that by the end of the project it can continue to operate and grow.

The direct global environment benefits of the project are expected to reach at least 200,000 tons of CO₂, resulting from the concrete pilot/demonstration projects in the building energy efficiency, transport, and waste sectors. These are complemented by project’s indirect GHG emission reduction impact at the estimated amount of 2.4 million tons of CO₂ by scaling up, replicating and mainstreaming the project results and activities, including those of the Green City Lab

Scope of work

The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to Chisinau Municipality to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the work of the Municipal General Department of Transport and Roads (including subordinated municipal enterprises), and their capacity to provide quality transport and road planning and maintenance related services in line with international standards and national and municipal strategic goals (e.g. Public transport development strategy for 2015-2025 years). The result of the assessment will provide specific recommendations for the further strengthening of the work of the department and will further support the implementation of the recommendations. Specific focus will be placed on developing also robust institutional reforming and human resource strengthening recommendations and roadmaps.

The consultancy is expected to be carried out within the period March – July 2020, comprising of several stages: completion of sector-specific assessments by 30th April 2020 and development of follow up sector-specific, institutional and human resource recommendations and roadmaps by 15th of July 2020. Specific deliverables for each assignment are outlined below. The final deliverables will be validated and endorsed by Chisinau Municipality and UNDP.

Requirements for experience

For the requirements for experience and qualifications, please refer to annex 1 - Terms of Reference.

Documents to be included

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

1. Proposal:

• Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;
• Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable);

2. Offeror's Letter confirming Interest and Availability;

3. Financial proposal;

4. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references.

Financial proposal

Lump sum contracts

The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR.  In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including fees, taxes, travel costs, accommodation costs, communication, and the number of anticipated working days).