Procurement Notices

TERMS of REFERENCE (ToR)

International Consultant to develop a ProDoc and a PIP

1. Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been supporting the Government of Iraq in developing the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) for Iraq for the past few years. The NDC has now reached a final stage and is expected to be submitted to the UNFCCC the soonest, after the endorsement from the higher authorities in the country as to meet the country’s priorities. Now that the COP26 is on the horizon, UNDP is supporting Iraq’s delegates to effectively participate in the COP negotiations, which led to the extension of the project and a project document is needed to be developed.

On the other hand, UNDP has several agreements with UNEP to cooperatively support the Iraqi Ministry of Environment (MoEn) and to implement projects and lead campaigns in Iraq. A Project Implementation Plan (PIP) is needed for the new project that will cover the activities between UNDP and MoEn and/or UNEP.

2. Objectives

The objective of the consultancy is to support UNDP to develop the following:

• A full project document according to UNDP criteria based on the current PIP of NDC project
• A PIP for a new project that will include activities between UNDP and MoEn and/or UNEP.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

The International consultant will have the responsibility to write up a full project or programme of the NDC project, in addition to employ the available information and agreement with UNEP as well as other funding sources to write a new project initiation plan with a detailed budget and financial structure with all main cost categories at the input level corresponding to all outputs and activities for both projects.

The consultancy will be for a period of 2 months. The assignment will be managed under the UNDP EECC head of pillar.

3. Scope of Work and Key Deliverables

Under the overall supervision of the EECC head of pillar, the International consultant shall contribute to the provision of the following deliverables:

The consultant is also required to make him/herself available to attend remote/ virtual meetings / discussions via skype/ zoom or other relevant modality for planning meetings/ feedback meetings convened by EECC head of pillar and EECC team.

The International consultant must be able and willing to collaborate and assist other team members in provision of advice.

Timeline for deliverables

1. Duration

The contract is effective from the date of signature by UNDP Iraq and the international Consultant for 2 months between 1 October 2021 – 30 November 2021.

6. Qualification of the International consultant

Qualifications, skills, and professional experience of the International consultant should include the following:

• Hold at least a master’s degree in environmental sciences, climate change, or related field. (15 points)
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience preferably in Iraq or in the Middle East on developing and implementing UN agency led projects. (25 points)
• Previous engagement in projects involving governmental entities and private sector. (15 points)
• Experience in developing project documents or project implementation plans for UN agencies. (20 points)
• Experience in NDC or Paris agreement related projects. (15 points)
• Excellent oral and written command of the English language. (10 points)

1. Evaluation/Selection criteria

 Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:

• Cumulative analysis
• When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

1. Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
2. Having received the highest score out of a predetermined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation:

• Technical Criteria weight; [50]
• Methodical Approaches; [20]
• Financial Criteria weight; [30]

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points of the 100 points in the Technical Evaluation will be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

8.Payment

The consultant must send a financial proposal for a total contract duration of three months. The proposed fee shall quote an all-inclusive budget for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the International Consultant in successfully completing the assignment/consultancy. Payment will be made as lumpsum on deliverable upon completion of the service.

9.Presence required on duty station/UNDP Country Office 

Ö  NONE                      * PARTIAL                * INTERMITTENT                 0 FULL-TIME  

10.Application

The application should contain:

• Technical proposal (showing the candidate’s understanding of the assignment requirements, proposed approach, proposed analytical framework or analysis tools);

• Financial proposal and,

• Updated CV to include qualifications/competencies and relevant past experience in similar projects and contact details of 2 professional referees who can certify the candidate’s competencies, professionalism, quality of presentation and overall suitability for this assignment.  

Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application system only allows to upload maximum one document.

**Failure to submit the above-mentioned documents or Incomplete proposals shall result in disqualification

The short listed candidates may be contacted and the successful candidate will be notified.