Senior Strategic Planning Lead Expert

Request for Price Quotations (RfPQ) - Second Time

RFPQ Title: Services of an Individual Senior Strategic Planning Lead Expert

to prepare APLA’s Strategic Plan (2023-2026)

RFPQ’s Reference Code: APLA/EU-MAAP/2022-14

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 signed a grant contract with the European Union (EU) on 12 December 2021 with total EU contribution of € 1.9 million. To implement the project (APLA’s Multiannual Action Plan (MAAP) 2021-2025. ENI/2021/425-904), this project has been 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. 

Context:

APLA had went along with its first strategic plan designed for the years 2019 to 2022, and as the 4-year strategy plan almost completes its timeframe by the end of 2022, APLA keen to formulate a new strategic plan for the coming four years (2023 to 2026). Accordingly, APLA intends to apply part of this grant for contracting a qualified Individual Senior Strategic Planning Lead Expert who has the needed experience, skills, and support resources to carry out this assignment.

The Main Objective of The Assignment:

To prepare the APLA’s Strategic Plan (2023-2026) and to achieve the following general outputs and targets among many others:

1. Assessing the 1st strategic plan for APLA (2019-2022).
2. Development and implementation of a strategic review methodology, ensuring all along that the process is highly participatory to ensure APLA members’ sense of ownership, and engaging meaningfully with APLA’s global vision and mission, board, partners and international contributors.
3. Development of a revised feasible 4-Year strategic framework plan for APLA (2023-2026) in order to increase its effectiveness, transparency and accountability. This plan shall serve as a guiding document for APLA’s management to fulfil its duties.

Other specific objectives as specified in the bidding documents. The general requirements, technical specifications and needed consultancy services are attached to the bidding documents (Annex 1: ToR).

In this regard, APLA intends to recruit a qualified Individual Senior Strategic Planning Lead Expert who has the needed experience, skills, and support resources (including an expert in local government) to prepare APLA’s Strategic Plan (2023-2026).

The lead expert should support APLA with proven qualifications and experience in such fields highlighted in his/her offer through submitting CVs for him/her and the support team with relevant work experience and highlighting similar previous work.

RFPQ’s Conditions:

1. Interested experts may obtain further information and inspect the bidding document through the website of APLA at (https://www.apla.ps/library).
2. 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 29 Nov. 2022 to 8 Dec. 2022.
3. 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.
4. Offers must be hand-submitted in a sealed envelope and delivered to Rasha Sarhan, the Administrative Assistant at the address below on or before 3:00 PM. of 8 Dec. 2022. Late offers will be rejected. Electronic offers will not be permitted.
5. The prices must be in (Euro).
6. Offers shall be valid for a period of 30 days after offers’ submission deadline.
7. Publishing and advertising fees of the RFPQ on who wins the tender.
8. The address referred to above is:

The Association of Palestinian Local Authorities - APLA

2nd Floor - Safad Building - 10 Jabra Al Anqar Street -

Al-Masion- Ramallah - Palestine

T: +970 2 296 0712 ext. 18,   F: +970 2 296 0713

M: +970 597 916525