The UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, serves UNDP’s 45 Country Offices in sub-Saharan Africa, develops high quality knowledge and policy products and is the organization’s main interface with regional and continental bodies such as the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities. It provides strategic policy and technical support to UNDP country offices in the region and implements UNDP’s Regional Programme for Africa.

The joint AU-UNDP project, “Accelerating the Ratification and Domestication of African Union Treaties”, is a 3-year multi-country and regional initiative. This project is part of and anchored in UNDP’s Regional Programme for Africa; it will contribute directly to Outcome 1: African Union and RECs deliver on their mandate, especially cross-cutting issues related to resilience-building.

The project is designed to address the challenges and bottlenecks associated with ratification and domestication, and to help enhance the capacity of the AU over the medium to long-term to be able to manage the ratification process, and to provide tailored support to Member States with domestication-related challenges. It is anchored on a multi-dimensional approach to development, which draws upon the inherent link between peace, security and economic development; it is, furthermore, designed further the achievement of Agenda 2063, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Post-2015 SDGs.

Upon the advertisement of the Procurement Notice, qualified Consultancy Firm is expected to submit both the Technical and Financial Proposals. Accordingly; the Firm will be evaluated based on Cumulative Analysis as per the following conditions:

• Responsive/compliant/acceptable as per the Instruction to Bidders (ITB) of the Standard Bid Document (SBD), and
• Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation. In this regard, the respective weights of the proposals are:
  1. Technical Criteria weight is 70%
  2. Financial Criteria weight is 30%