The project procurement specialist will support the executing and implementing agencies in project 
preparation, ensure project readiness, and avoid implementation delays after loan effectiveness.

The objectives of TA 6534-MON are to: (i) design the project, ensuring the design is suitable for ADB 
financing through identifying the most appropriate 
project components and providing innovative ideas, concepts, management approaches, and technology 
including pilot testing to enhance project impacts; 
(ii) review proposed project components based on detailed due diligence assessment of technical, 
economic and financial, governance, safeguards and 
poverty and social, and project risk and mitigation measures; (iii) provide training to the executing 
agency, implementing agency, their project 
implementing units, local design institutes, and other relevant stakeholders, to increase institutional 
capacity on effective project development and 
implementation; (iv) coordinate the project activity at all levels; (v) maintain high quality of project 
design and reporting; (vi) maintain firmly the 
schedule and project processing milestones; and (vii) prepare inputs to project documents, including 
feasibility study reports, safeguard documents, and 
ADB’s draft report and recommendation of the president. The project being prepared under the TA will 
include components involving high level technologies which require a special technical consideration and 
due diligence.

The project procurement specialist will work with the executing and implementing agencies, TA consultant 
team, and ADB to coordinate timely and efficient project preparation. The consultant will update the 
technical specifications of goods, in consultation with other TA consultants (TA output: procurement 
plan which includes market analysis and supply positioning: bidding documents of all urgent project 
packages).

The consultant will (i) support the government in undertaking necessary preparatory work to ensure 
timely project start-up and facilitate coordination during the project preparation finalization and 
initial phase of implementation while the project implementation unit (PIU) is not yet in place, (ii) 
help EA/IA address remaining issues in project procurement including specifications, detailing 
procurement plan, documentation as needed, (iii) prepare draft bidding document for all procurement 
packages based on the information provided in technical reports prepared by TrTA consultants, (iv) 
support EA in advance procurement actions, (v) assist in completing procurement due diligence, if 
anything remains after TrTA report, (vi) assist the government in preparing for the recruitment of the 
PIU including facilitating all necessary review and clearance as required and (vii) conduct procurement 
training and capacity building workshops on ADB’s consultant recruitment and procurement guidelines and 
procedures for staff of NEMA.

The consultant should be a national of Mongolia with a degree in economics, engineering, development 
planning, or equivalent, and preferably with 10 years’ experience in procurement in Mongolia under ADB 
or multi-lateral bank funded projects. He/she should be familiar with ADB project cycle and domestic 
requirements for project approval and project implementation. The consultant should be fluent in spoken 
and written English and Mongolian language.