National Consultant
SIF Project Monitoring-A2i,
Dhaka
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Closing date: Tuesday, 25 September 2018
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A fundamental government responsibility is providing information and services aimed at improving the social and economic welfare of its citizens. During the first phase of the Access to Information (A2I) Programme, fundamental progress was made in improving access to public services through electronic means. However, it is critical to expand the breadth and width of such simplified services and improve the service delivery model to counter the impact of widespread outdated manual processes, resistance to change by civil service staff and a lack of transparency that still frustrates citizens in their attempts to avail of government information and services.
The objective of the 2nd phase of the project is to increase transparency, improve governance, and reduce the time, difficulty and costs of obtaining government services for under-served communities of Bangladesh. This is to be achieved by the following 4 components of the project:
Component 1: Strengthening existing e-services and launching a second generation of integrated, inter-operable e-government applications; (e-Service)
Component 2: Sensitizing government officials, training for service providers and expanding digital literacy among the general public; (Capacity and Awareness)
Component 3: Forging strong policy and strategy links to ensure implementation of needed legal and regulatory changes in support of the project; (Enabling Environment) and
Component 4: Promoting innovation in the delivery of e-services. (Innovation)
The project is funded by the Government of Bangladesh, UNDP and other development partners, and is implemented by ICT Division and Cabinet Division.
“Access to Information (a2i) Programme” is going to recruit three National Consultant: SIF Project Monitoring who will develop technological solutions working under Innovation Team. S/he will conduct a thorough study to identify the best technological options for the target population and ensure that the technological reality of the target population is properly incorporated in the plan, design, develop and implemented of the technology solutions.
Objectives:
The incumbent will act as focal person to ensure the technical and administrative support of the Service Innovation Fund (SIF) software related projects of a2i. The primary objective for the incumbent is as follows:
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The assignment will focus on the following areas and activities:
Timeframe and Deadlines:
Supervision and Performance Evaluation.
The activities done by the incumbent will be regularly monitored by the Programme Coordinator (Innovation) of Access to Information-II Programme.
Timeframe and deadlines:
The assignment will be for 180 working days over 9 months.
Activities/Reports:
The activities done by the incumbent will be regularly monitored by the Programme Coordinator (Innovation) of Access to Information-II Project. The incumbent will be paid monthly after completing each of the deliverables.
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Corporate Competencies:
Functional Competencies
Development and Operational Effectiveness
Leadership and Self-Management
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Academic Qualifications:
Years of experience:
Evaluation of the Candidates:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology.
Cumulative analysis-
The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant up on Cumulative Analysis/evaluation and determined as:
Technical Evaluation Criteria (Total 70 marks):
Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks)
All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below.
The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received points according to the following formula:
p = y (µ/z)
Where:
Financial Milestone:
DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Proposers who shall not submit below mentioned documents will not be considered for further evaluation.
Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.
Travel
All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.
In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
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