Expert to prepare the Procurement procedures manual for APLA

الاتحاد الفلسطيني للهيئات المحلية - APLA

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RFPQ Title: Services of an individual expert to prepare the Procurement procedures manual for APLA

RFPQ’s Reference Code: APLA/Enabel-2022-05

Overview:

The Association of Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA) founded in 1997, APLA is an independent organization mandated to represent and lobby for the collective interests of Local Government Units (LGUs) by supporting capacity building among local governments, facilitating exchange of knowledge and best practices, and serving as vehicle for dialogue between the central government and LGUs.

Project Brief:

APLA is implementing the project (APLA’s Multiannual Action Plan - MAAP 2021-2025). MAAP is designed to strengthen LGUs collaborations on service delivery and local participatory development, and improve contributions to territorial integration, particularly in Area C. Specific objectives of MAAP are aligned to APLA’s strategic plan and aims to support the role of APLA as LGUs representative and dialogue partner with the Palestinian Authority, to support the role of the LGUs in the building process of future State of Palestine and to strengthen the institutional and operational capacities of APLA. MAAP is largely financed by the European Union, under the financing agreement (FA) ENI/ 2020/ 042-362 “support productive investment in Palestine” which signed between EU and the Palestinian Authority (PA). In addition, Enabel is supporting MAAP under the framework of “Local Government Reform and Development Programme – Phase 2, Addendum PZA 1303311” through the action (Supporting the Localization of SDGs).

As part of the action, APLA is keen for contracting a qualified individual expert who has the needed experience and skills to prepare and establish the procurement procedures manual for APLA.

The Main Objective of The Assignment:

APLA continues to strengthen its institutional and operational capacities, to better support its members (LGUs) to better serve the citizens, APLA continues to develop, update and upgrade its internal systems and procedures. The main objective of the assignment is to “Develop APLA’s procurement procedures manual”. Under the guidance and supervision of APLA, and in full cooperation with APLA’s top management, the expert is expected to develop a comprehensive manual to manage the procurement processes in APLA.

The Specific Objectives are:

Review and update APLA’s Financial and Procurement Policies Manual.
Develop “Procurement Code of Conduct” for procurement staff.
Assess and analyze existing national and international procurement procedures in similar fields and organizations.

Organize and unify the work of APLA staff through the sequence of procedures, tools and forms used.
Increase the efficiency of the work inside APLA related to procurement.
Facilitate to the internal auditing and top management to oversee and control APLA’s procurement operations.
Prepare and develop the procurement procedures manual.

The general requirements, technical specifications and needed services are attached to the bidding documents (Annex 1: ToR).

In this regard, APLA intends to recruit an expert to Develop APLA’s procurement procedures manual, based on needed requirements, specifications, and requested TORs in the bidding documents.

The expert should support APLA with proven experience in such fields highlighted in his/her offer through submitting the personal profile/CV with relevant work experience and highlighting similar assignments or previous work.

RFPQ’s Conditions:

Interested eligible experts may obtain further information and inspect the bidding document through the website of APLA at (https://www.apla.ps/library).
Clarifications and technical inquiries can be obtained from the Association of Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA), Project Officer, Mohammed Musleh: m[email protected], +970 (2) 2960712, during office hours (Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 AM to 04:00 PM) at the address given below from 8 November, 2022 to 22 November, 2022.
The RFPQ’s documents in English may be downloaded from the APLA website (https://www.apla.ps/library), filled, stamped, and submitted by interested experts
Offers must be hand-submitted in a sealed envelope and delivered to Maria Bairat, the financial and procurement coordinator at the address below on or before 3:00 PM of 22 November 2022. Late offers will be rejected. Electronic offers will not be permitted.
The prices must be in (Euro). Grant is VAT exempted; bidders have to price with zero VAT.
Income sourced taxes will be deducted from the gross amount and forwarded to the tax authority. It is the Consultant’s sole responsibility to pay all taxes, the gross amount shall be subject to any further deductions according to Palestinian Law.
Offers shall be valid for a period of 30 days after offers’ submission deadline.
Publishing and advertising fees of the RFPQ on who wins the tender.
APLA is not committed to the lowest price offer, but to the best evaluated offer, (Financially and technically).
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