Cleaning Services _ Individual Contractor
Procurement Process
IC - Individual contractor
Office
UNDP Pacific - FIJI
Deadline
23-Oct-20
Published on
27-Sep-20
Reference Number
70720
Documents
Terms of Referece _ Cleaning Services TongaAnnex 2 Confirmation of Interest
General Conditions of Contract for Individual Contracts
Overview
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Ref: PN/FJ/098/20
Location | Tonga |
Application deadline | 7th October 2020 |
Type of Contract | Individual Contractor |
Post Level | National Consultant |
Languages required: | Tongan |
Duration of Initial Contract: | October 2020 to October 2021 |
Type of Contract- Individual Consultant Long Term Agreement (IC - LTA)- Cleaning services |
Duration of the Contract
Consultancy proposal should be sent via email to etenderbox.pacific@undp.org no later than 7th October 2020 (Fiji Time) clearly stating the title of consultancy applied for. Any proposals received after this date/time will not be accepted. Any request for clarification must be sent in writing, or by standard electronic communication to procurement.fj@undp.org UNDP will respond in writing or by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants. Incomplete, late and joint proposals will not be considered and only offers for which there is further interest will be contacted. Failure to submit your application as stated as per the application submission guide (Procurement Notice) on the above link will be considered incomplete and therefore application will not be considered.
Note: Successful individual will be required to provide proof of medical insurance coverage for the duration of the assignment before commencement of contract |
BACKGROUND
UNDP Tonga office commenced its presence office in Tonga, located inside the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, attached to Aid Management Division, in February 1, 2011. Cabinet Directives in 2012 to upgrade UNDP office to UNJPO, an office space and to sign the SBAA. The Government of Tonga signed with UNDP the SBAA in January 28, 2013 between Prime Minister of Tonga Lord Tu’ivakano and the UNDP Resident Representative Knut Ostby.
In November 2015, Hon. Minister of Finance and National Planning, Hon. ‘Aisake Eke signed with Osnat Lubrani, UNDP Resident Representative & UN Resident Coordinator for UNDP and other UN agencies moved to RoyCo Building Level 1 office space. We have expanded UN system in Tonga therefore, Tonga UNDP office hosts four (4) Agencies, namely UNDP, UNWomen, UNFPA, and EU Presence offices.
Cleanliness of the UN Office space at all time is paramount for the safety of UN Staff where it requires a cleaning services to deliver these services in daily basis to ensure healthy and clean environment |
LTA CONTRACTING MODALITY AND CALL-OFF MECHANISM
An LTA is a mutual arrangement between UNDP and the individual to provide the required services at established fee or provisions. The LTA will be established for one year .UNDP reserves the right to rescind the agreement during that period should performance of the consultant(s) not meet its requirements.
It is expected the consultant(s) to be engaged for maximum 261 working days per year starting from Oct 2020 to October 2021
UNDP does not warrant that any quantity of services shall be contracted during the term of this Agreement. A specific Term of Reference (TOR) outlining the deliverables shall be provided, and an Individual Contract would be issued to the consultant, detailing the time frame.
Once the LTA is signed, if there is a specific service required, the focal person in the UNDP hiring unit would contact the Consultant(s) and upon positive confirmation in the availability for the assignment, acceptance of the Term of reference and cost, UNDP will issue an Individual Contract. Price in the order will be based on daily fee included in the LTA. After contract has been agreed between the two parties, no further costs would be reimbursed by UNDP unless there is prior written authorization by UNDP.
Once the services are completed and have been approved by the hiring unit, the Consultant will provide the following for payment purposes:
a) complete invoice indicating the completed deliverables;
c) copy of the UNDP contract for the consultancy.
Payments will be made upon satisfactory achieved deliverables under each assignment and submission of time sheet in accordance with number of days worked. Final payment shall require a signed performance evaluation of the consultant(s).
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Scope of Work To Provide daily cleaning services and monitoring maintenance needs for UNDP office and UN vehicle(s) to ensure healthy and clean environment. Expected Outputs and Deliverables
Institutional Arrangement
Duration of the Work
Duty Station
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COMPETENCIES
Quality Cleaning services provider should be passionate, motivated and well-trained, so they can provide the level of attention to details that UNDP can expect from any national commercial cleaning services |
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Educational Qualifications:
Experience
] The personnel must have had training and experience in similar environments; uphold high ethical standards and must not have criminal records or pending court cases against them.
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 and Medical Insurance , 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. 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.
Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)
Fluency of Tongan language and some knowledge of English Language is required. . (10%)
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents;
Consultancy proposal should be sent via email to etenderbox.pacific@undp.org no later than 7th October 2020 (Fiji Time) clearly stating the title of consultancy applied for.
Note: Successful individual will be required to provide proof of medical insurance coverage before commencement of contract for the duration of the assignment.
Incomplete and joint proposals may not be considered. Consultants with whom there is further interest will be contacted.
Consultant must send a financial proposal based on a Lump Sum Amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fee(Daily fees to include IC’s medical insurance costs).The contract price will be fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payments will be done upon completion of the deliverables/outputs.
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.
For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to procurement.fj@undp.org.
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