Federal Government of Nigeria
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Reissuance
This notice replaces the notice published in Thisday and The Nation Newspapers with issuance Date 12th August 2011 on the Consultancy Services entitled “Consultancy Services Institutional and Capacity Building Assessment Study under the Second Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP 2)
Request for Expressions of Interest (EOI)
Consultancy Services for Institutional and Capacity Building Assessment under the Second Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP 2)
Project ID No; P095003
Issue Date, 18th August 2011
This request for Expression of interest (EOI) follows the General Procurement Notice (GPN) for the above mentioned Project that appeared in the Guardian and Thursday Newspapers of July 24th 2007 and the dg market web site as number 608 of August 16th 2007.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has received a Project Preparatory Advance (PPA) from the World Bank and a Project Preparation Fund from the French Development Agency (AFD) towards the cost of the preparing the Rural Access and Mobility Project II (RAMP II). and intends to apply part of the proceeds on Consultancy Services in order to prepare an Institutional and Capacity Building Assessment in the four (4) selected states (first –tier states) as well as a institutional support package for the eight states that passed the first selection stage but were not selected as part of the final four (second-tier states). The State selection process is still ongoing. The four selected states that will participate in RAMP II out of the under listed 12 states will known before the issuance of RFP:-
A. North-East;
1. Adamawa State
2. Bauchi State
B. North-West;
3. Kebbi State
4. Jigawa State
C. North-Central
5. Niger State
6. Kogi State
South-West
7. Ondo State
8. Osun State
E. South-South
9. Bayelsa State
10. Edo State
F. South-East
11. Enugu State
12. Anambra State
The expected duration of this assignment will be 3 months.
The RAMP-FPMU on behalf of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development now invites eligible consulting firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultant must provide information (brochures, description of similar assignments, availability of appropriate skills and experiences, etc,) indicating that they are perform the services.
The objective of this study is to assess the capacity of the State Project implementation (SPlU’s), as well as of other state and local institutions in charge of rural transport policies, in to help design the third component of the RAMP-2 project. This component – entitled “State and Federal institutional strengthening, program’s scaling up and promotion of rural transport policies” aims at providing a comprehensive institutional development package at the state level (and possibly also at the local level) in order to support the implementation of the project, the dissemination of best practices and sound rural transport policies, as well as to prepare the scaling up of the project. The component will be split in two sub-components, Subcomponent 3.1will provide direct support to the 4 selected states In implementing the project as well as sound rural transport policies (at state but also possibly local levels), Subcomponent 3.2 will be implemented at the federal level and will provide technical support to second-tier states in order to prepare them for a eventual future scaling up of RAMP-2.
Consultants will assess the fiduciary technical and operational capacity of SPlUs, provide basic training to key SPIU staff and will design a comprehensive technical assistance package to promote and implement sound rural transport policies.
In their expression of interest, consultants are encouraged to indicate in which one(s) of these 12 states mentioned above they would be interested to perform the proposed assignment .The evaluation of EOI will be based on competence. Shortlisted Consultants will be requests to reconfirm their interest in performing the proposed assignment in the four final states selected for participation in RAMP II.
Submission of Expressions of Interests (EQIs)
One original and five copies of the Expression of Interest must be submitted in a sealed envelop clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for institutional and Capacity Building Assessment” and should be deposited in the tender box located at the FPMU Office at the address below.
The closing date for submission of the EOI is 5th September, 2011 by 12:00pm. LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
The Consulting Firm will be selected in accordance with AFD legal obligation, and with the procedures sat out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment o Consultants by World Bank Borrowers published in May 2004 and revised October 1, 2006, May 1, 2010 and January 2011.
Interested Consultant may obtain further information at the address below during office hours 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Monday to Friday),
The Federal Project Management Unit is not bound to short-list any consultant
National Coordinator, RAMP
Federal Project Management Unit (FPMU)
Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP)
NAIC House (First Floor), Plot 590, Zone AO,
Airport Road, Central Area,
Abuja, Nigeria.
Telephone; 09-8726059, +234 803 701 4956, + 234 809 650 2821,
Email; info@namp.gov.ng
