Overview :

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites you to submit a Proposal to this Individual Consultant Procurement Notice (IC) for the above-referenced subject. 

Description of the Assignment: The consultant will support the implementation of the Regional socio-economic integration strategy for migrants from Venezuela through the mapping mentioned in the Objective and the set of recommendations to address the identified barriers. For that mapping, the Consultant will work closely with Minister of Labour and other labour governmental entities at Guyana, as well as private sector stakeholders, NGO´s and UN Agencies related to labour migration, and of course, Venezuelan migrant workers and Venezuelan migrants seeking for a job at Guyana. For the mapping, a gender approach will be necessary and a set of recommendations to address
the identified barriers.

Within the scope of the consultancy, one aspect which may warrant special attention is the one of COVID related response. Some employability support measures were introduced and/or expanded as part of pre-existing measures in the spirit of COVID relief. It would be important to determine whether those changes brought about as COVID relief (during 2020 or 2021) have been: dismissed, maintained, maintained, and expanded. 

This IC includes the following documents:

File 1: Invitation Document

           • Annex I: Terms of Reference

           • Annex II: Offeror´s Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability for the Individual Contractor (IC) Assignment

           • Annex III: Statement of Health Form

           • Annex IV: Designation of Beneficiary for IC Contract

           • Annex V: Model of Contract for the Services of an Individual Contractor and General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of                            Individual Contractors

           • Annex VI: Evaluation Matrix

       File 2: Application Form - Offeror Letter´s to UNDP

       File 3: Statement of Health

       File 4: Designation of Beneficiary for IC Contract

 We kindly invite you to submit your offer for the Consultant on Human Mobility and Institutional Employability Capacity - Guyana, as detailed in Annex 1 of this Individual Contract Procurement Notice; when preparing your offer, please be guided by the form attached hereto as Annex 2.

Quotations may be submitted on or before August 17, 2021 no later than 15:00 (UTC /GMT -5), time of the Republic of Panama via e-mail to the following address with subject line as follows:

Subject Line: 18865-2021 – Consultant on Human Mobility and Institutional Employability Capacity - Guyana

Email:  procurement.rblac.regionalhub@undp.org

Link: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=81549 

The procedures for the acquisition of services will be the ones indicated by the United Nations Development Program.

This process is directed only to one individual.  Any proposal received by more than two individuals jointly or legal entity will be rejected.  Likewise, all the proposals from consultants involved in the elaboration of the present Terms of Reference will be rejected.