DEADLINE: 9TH SEPTEMBER, 2024
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD)
COUNTRY: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
NAME OF PROJECT: CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING MANUAL/CURRICULUM FOR FARMERS ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTERPRISE GROUPS
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (REOI) FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING MANUAL/CURRICULUM FOR FARMERS ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTERPRISE GROUPS (INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)
REF NO.: NCO/SAPZ-1/IFAD/CS/ICS/004/22/24
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (The Fund or IFAD) towards the cost of special agro-industrial processing zones (SAPZ) program (the client or procuring entity) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the recruitment of consulting services, for which this REOI is issued.The use of any IFAD financing shall be subject to IFAD’s approval, pursuant to the terms and condition of the financing agreement, as well as IFAD’s rule, policies and procedures. IFAD and its officials, agents and employees shall be held harmless from and against all suits, procedures, claims, demands, losses and liability of any kind or nature brought by any party in connection with Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) Program.
The consulting services (“the services”) include conceptualize and design curriculum, prepare training curriculum for capacity building for identified rural institutions, produce suitable training methodologies to enhance participation and capacity building for rural institutions for effective partnership with projsct, develop a training plan for short, medium and long term for rural institutions. More details on this consulting service are contained in the Terms of reference (TOR) which can be obtained from the address below between 10am -4pm on working days or obtained from the website: sapz.gov.ng.
It is expected that this consultancy servicers shall be for a period of 4weeks within which the consultant shall accomplish all the tasks including submission of final report to the Client.
This request for expressions of interest (REOI) follows the general procurement notice that appeared on 17th April 2023 on UNDB on 17th April 2023 and on Thisday and Blueprint Newspaper on 2nd September 2024.
The attention of interested consultants is drawn to IFAD’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of terrorism Policy and the Revised IFAD Policy on Preventing Fraud and Corruption its Activities and Operations. The latter sets forth IFAD’S provisions on prohibited practices. IFAD further strives to ensure a safe working environment free of harassment, including sexual harassment, and free of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in its activities and operations as detailed in its IFAD Policy to Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Interested consultant shall not have any actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest. A consultant with an actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest shall be disqualified unless otherwise explicitly approved by the fund. A consultant are considered to have a conflict of interest if they a) have a relationship that provides them with undue or disclosed information about or influence over the selection process and the execution of the contract, b) have a business or family relationship with a member of the client’s board of directors or its personnel, the Fund or its personnel, or any other individual that was, has been or might reasonably be directly or indirectly involved in any part of (i) the preparation of this expression of interest, (ii) the selection process for this procurement, or (iii) execution of the contract. The consultant has an ongoing obligation to disclose any situation of actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest during preparation of the EOI, the selection process or the contract execution. Failure to properly disclose any of said situations may lead to appropriate actions, including the disqualification of the consultant, the termination of the contract and any other as appropriate under the IFAD Policy on Preventing Fraud and Corruption in its Projects and Operations.
The National Coordination Office now invites eligible individual consultants (“consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services in the form of a curriculum vitae (CV). A consultant will be selected in accordance with the individual consultant selection (ICS) method set out in IFAD’s Project Procurement Handbook that can be accessed via IFAD website at www.ifad.org/project-procurement. Interviews will not be conducted as part of the selection process.
The shortlisting criteria are: The criteria for shortlisting consultants will be based 1. General Qualification 2. General Working Experience 3. Adequacy for the assignment 4. Experience in Similar assignment in Donor Funded project.
Any request for clarification on this REOI should be sent via e-mail to the address below no later than 4.00pm local time on 6th September 2024. The client will provide responses to all clarification requests by 4.00pm local time on 9th September 2024.
Expression of interest in the forms form of Curriculum Vitae (CV) must be delivered in a written form to the address below no later than 12noon local time on 16th September 2024. Late submission will not be accepted.
SIGNED: DR KABIR YUSUF
National Program Coordinator, SAPZ
National Co-Ordination Office (NCO)
Federal Ministry Of Agriculture and Food Security
#3 Aguleri Street, Off Gimbiya Street, Area 11 Abuja
admin@sapz.gov.ng; +2348168088308; +2348035949354
