DEADLINE: 16TH JANUARY, 2023
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR SELECTION OF A FIRM TO CARRY OUT THE RECRUITMENT OF QUALIFIED PERSONNEL FOR THE ECOWAS BANK FOR INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (EBID)
(1) The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) is an international financial institution common to the fifteen (15) Member States of ECOWAS, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana. Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. It was established following the transformation of the ECOWAS Fund for Cooperation, Compensation and Development (ECOWAS Fund) into a regional holding company called EBID with two (2) subsidiaries, as agreed at the twenty-second session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government held in December 1999. By decision A/ DEC.3/06/06 of 14 June 2006, the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government reorganized the holding company into a single entity with the absorption of the two subsidiaries, namely ERIB and ERDF. The new entity has two operational windows, one dedicated to the private sector and one to the public sector.
EBID’s vision is to be the leading regional institution for investment and development financing in West Africa and an effective instrument for poverty alleviation, wealth creation and job promotion for the well-being of the people of the region.
Its mission is to help create the conditions for the emergence of an economically strong, industrialised and prosperous West Africa, fully integrated both internally and within the global economic system, in order to benefit from the opportunities and prospects offered by globalisation.
(2) Within the framework of the implementation of its human resources policy, EBID periodically carries out capacity building through recruitment on a competitive basis of experienced staff of all categories. To this end, the Bank launches public recruitment notices for various roles in accordance with its programme or expressed needs. At the end of the deadline, a large number of applications, which are sometimes heterogeneous, are often registered, thus requiring more time and resources to examine them in accordance with the required procedures.
(3) In order to further streamline the effectiveness and efficiency of the process, EBID is considering engaging the services of a highly reputable firm whose main mission will be to accompany EBID through the sequential stages of the recruitment process.
(4) The main services to be provided by the firm that will be selected through this process are as follows:
(a) Designing, in accordance with the profile sought, the technical tests for all positions in French and English;
(b) Carry out a pre-selection of candidates on the basis of the criteria pre-validated by EBID according to the profiles of each corresponding position;
(c) Propose to EBID an organizational scheme for the written and personality tests correct the copies, etc
(5) The Department of Administration and General Services is inviting firms to express their interest in providing the services described above. Eligible and interested firms or associations of firms must provide the necessary information on their qualifications and experience to demonstrate their ability to perform the required services (documentation, references of similar services, experience in comparable assignment, availability of qualified personnel, etc)
(6) Expressions of interest should be in French or English and should follow the following format:
Details of the firm consulting company or association of firms (Including nationality of the firm and contact person(s) and including company registration number (1 page);
(a) Expression of interest detailing your strengths, expertise and any other information you consider relevant;
(b) Previous experience in comparable assignment;
(c) CVs of key personnel;
(d) Any additional relevant documents
(7) After evaluation of the EOI files received, three (3) to six (6) firms will be shortlisted on the basis of the following criteria:
(i) General experience in staff recruitment; 10 points;
(ii) Organisational capacity of the firm: 15 points;
(iii) The firm’s experience in carrying out similar assignments, particularly in terms of similarity and complexity: 25 points;
(8) This notice of expression of interest is open to all firms or groups of firms meeting the evaluation criteria set out below, in addition, in the case of a consortium, firms are invited to attach a copy of the consortium’s memorandum of association designating the lead partner. It must be noted that individual consultants are not allowed to bid in their capacity as such.
(9) Selection of a firm will be based on the least cost method, in accordance with EBID’s Institutional procurement regulations
(10) Please note that the interested expressed by a firm/consulting company does not imply any obligations on the part of the Bank include it in the shortlist.
(11) A framework contract of a maximum duration of three (3) years will be signed with the selected firm. However, the contract will be renewed on an annual basis after satisfactory evaluation of the firm’s performance by EBID.
(12) Interested firms/consulting firms may obtain further information from the following e-mail address: secretariatdasg@bidc-ebid.org and copied to asanou@bidc-ebid.org during the Bank’s working hours.
(13) Expression of interest must be received by e-mail at the above address no later than Tuesday 16 January, 2023 at 17:00 local time (Lome) and should be expressly marked as follows; “Notice of Expression of Interest for the Selection of a firm to recruit professional staff and young graduates for the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)”
