| Overview : The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) invites vendors to express interest in participating in the bid for a potential award of a contract for the Design, Development, and Delivery of UNDP Career Development Services. Case Reference: TDU-2020-EOI-002 Call for EOIs/Prequalification Issue date 20 March 2020 Call for EOIs/Prequalification Closing date 3 April 2020 6pm Denmark time zone - Background Information:
The People for 2030 strategy defines enhancing the career experiences of all UNDP personnel as one of the key priorities of the organisation. This includes building a more modern and flexible understanding of ‘career’, better-defined career paths that give personnel opportunities to pursue the career they aspire to, and more guidance for managers and personnel on navigating career journeys. It is UNDP’s responsibility to design strategies, solutions, tools and services that enable and facilitate more effective and impactful people decisions and help shape a workplace where individuals thrive of their careers and teams excel. In line with the commitments of the Strategy and in order to assist personnel in taking ownership of, and more effectively managing their careers, OHR is working on further developing a comprehensive career development support programme. Goal: To offer bespoke career development services to UNDP personnel. Through the referred subsequent RFP, UNDP aims at contracting supplier/s to deliver part or the full scope of these services as detailed in the enclosed EoI document. UNDP invites qualified vendors that meet the criteria as detailed in the enclosed EoI document, to express their interest in providing the required services by providing documentation in order to be prequalified (shortlisted) to participate in a subsequent RFP (Request for Proposal). An evaluation panel will review the EOIs. Following the finalization of prequalification process, a Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued to the shortlisted vendors. Intended date for this RFP would be around 6 April to 10 April 2020. Only shortlisted suppliers from this exercise will be invited to submit their Technical and Financial proposals in the RFP. UNDP may require compliance with additional requirements in terms of qualifications as part of the intended RFP document. This EOI does not entail any commitment on the part of UNDP, either financial or otherwise. Please note this is not a solicitation of commercial offers. No prices are required at this stage, no Financial offers are to be submitted yet, nor would be accepted during this prequalification exercise. UNDP reserves the right to change or cancel the requirement if needed, during the EOI/Prequalification and/or subsequent RFP process, with no liabilities whatsoever. Submitting a reply to a Call for the EOI/Prequalification does not automatically guarantee receipt of the solicitation documents (RFP) when issued. Submissions which are incomplete may not be considered. | 
