Quality Review of PAs

GOVERNMENT OF

THE KINGDOM OF SWAZILAND

MINISTRY OF

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND MINISTRY OF TINKHUNDLA ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Project

ID No. P095232

EXPRESION OF INTEREST – CONDUCTING A QUALITY REVIEW OF THE LOCAL

GOVERNMENTS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS (PAs)

This request for

expression of interest follows the general procurement notice for this project

that appeared in the dg market on the 13 December

2010.

The Government of Swaziland received a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction

and Development (IBRD) toward the cost of the

Swaziland Local Government Project. The project includes three components, as

follows:

• Component 1 (Tinkhundla Infrastructure and Capacity

Building Support) provides

performance-based funding for small-scale infrastructure within eightselected

Tinkhundla and capacity-building support to the administration structures of

the eight Tinkhundla.

• Component 2 (Urban Infrastructure Grants and Capacity

Building Support) provides

discretionary grants to finance capital investments in local roads, and provides

capacity building support to twelve urban local governments to provide and

sustain local services.

• Component 3 (Project Management and Technical Assistance) supports the establishment and operation of the Project

Support Team (PST), strengthening the capacity of urban local governments and

Tinkhundla, carrying out of performance assessments and related reviews, and

strengthening the local government monitoring systems of the Ministryof

Housing and Urban Development and the Ministry of Tinkhundla Administration and

Development.

The Government intends to apply part of the loan proceeds

for consulting services.

The implementing agencies are the Project Support Team,

the twelve urban local governments and the Micro Projects Programme. The objective of this assignment is

to conduct a quality review of the

Performance Assessments to ensure that they are being undertaken without

bias and/or influence, make revisions if any are identified that require

attention and to ascertain whether the PAs are carried-out in accordance with

the Terms of Reference for conducting the PAs and the specific indicators,

targets and scores as set out in the Performance Assessment Manual. Consultants will be selected in accordance with

the procedures set out in the World Bank's Guidelines:

Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (May

2004 and revised in October 2006 and May 2010

edition). The consultancy will be procured using Individual Consultant

Selection (ICS)

The Project Support Team now invites eligible individual consultants

to indicate their interest in providing the above services. Interested

consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to

perform the services (CVs with traceable references, description of similar

assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate

skills, etc.).

The expected duration of the assignment is 40 working

days for each review and the first review will be

undertaken during the second quarter of 2015/16, while the last review will be

carried out during the last quarter of 2016/17. This means that the first PA

review will commence in August 2015 and last 40 working days while the second

PA review will commence in February 2017 and complete in 40 working days. The contract would be renewable once, subject to

satisfactory performance.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at

the address below during office hours 0800 – 1300, 1400 – 1645 Mon –Thurs (1400

– 1630 Fri).

Expressions of interest should be clearly marked and

delivered to the address below by Friday 31 July 2015:

Swaziland Local Government

Project Support Team

Ministry of Housing &

Urban Development