This Request for Expressions of Interest
follows the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in
dgMarket online 31st March 2015.
The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu has received
a loan from the International Development Association under the Pacific
Aviation Investment Program (PAIP) and it is intended to apply part of the
proceeds to payments for the Contract – Consulting Services – Selection of an Individual Consultant –National Project Manager.
PAIP is a regional aviation project with the
development objective to provide safe and secure air transport operations and
environmentally sustainable and efficient airports and is being implemented in
five (5) Pacific Island countries: Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Samoa and Vanuatu.
The projects’ implementing Entity is Tonga Airports Ltd (TAL), who leads the
projects via the TFSU “Technical and Fiduciary Services Unit”.
TFSU now seeks a National
Project Manager for the Vanuatu Aviation Investment Project (VAIP) to provide assistance to
VPMU for all current projects and in particular to ensure that the VAIP is
implemented successfully.
It is anticipated that
the Consultant will commence as soon as possible for a two (2) year period, with a possible one (1) year extension based
in-country in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The
Consultant must also be available to travel to PAIP countries.
A firm is eligible to nominate an individual – however, note that only the experience and qualifications of the nominated individual shall be used in the selection process, and that (their) corporate experience shall not be taken into account. The firm, if proposing an individual must specify whether the contract would be signed with the firm or the proposed individual.
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (January 2011 edition), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
The Consultant will be selected based on “Selection of an Individual Consultant” in accordance with the “Guidelines; Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers” dated January 2011, which can be accessed at www.worldbank.org/procure .
The consultant shall
have following experience and qualifications.