Within the framework of EU-UN Joint Programme on Improving Vocational Education in Abkhazia and in line with the specific objective on assessing the ways to improve the management and delivery of VET, the Programme seeks an experienced international consultant for carrying-out Comprehensive Labour Market Demand Survey.
The aim of the assignment is to carry out a comprehensive survey of the labour market demand in Abkhazia to see if there are gaps and challenges in interlinkages across the private and public sectors as well as to identify the extent of mismatch between the demand and supply. The survey will show whether there is demand of workers with certain skills and competences the education sector is not producing or vice-versa. Findings of the survey will help the programme to map the growing or declining demand for respective skills and professions on the local labour market for current and future need.
The programme promotes integrated, comprehensive and sustainable solutions that ensure greater coherence and stronger impact by mapping the concrete needs in the VET sector and the labour market in Abkhazia. The programme aims at identifying the gaps and challenges and their interlinkages across sectors and establishing comprehensive responses by three UN agencies: the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The international technical specialist is supposed to:
The exercise shall be carried out with involvement of international technical specialist in the capacity to provide the overall oversee of the survey process while the fieldwork will be done by the local partner organization. Findings of the survey will help the programme to map the growing or declining demand for respective skills and professions on the local labor market for current and future need.
Comprehensive Survey of the Labor Market demand:
To carry out a comprehensive Survey of the Labor Market demand in Abkhazia by:
The fieldwork will be done by the local partner organization, while the international technical specialist should provide the overall oversee of the survey process.
Follow-up assessment to identify the status of progress:
Arrangements:
The Consultant will work under overall guidance of CPR Team Leader at UNDP and under direct supervision of the Project Manager and in close coordination with the VET project team. UNDP will support with local transportation and arrangement of meetings in Sukhumi and target districts.
Missions: The Consultant is expected to complete assigned deliverables through traveling to Tbilisi and Abkhazia - up to 2 missions (with up to 15 travel days) within the period of the assignment.
Total number of working days: In total, up to 30 w/days for the duration of March 2020 – February 2021, out of which up to 15 w/days are envisaged as travel days during the mission to Tbilisi and Abkhazia and up to 15 w/days are envisaged for home-based work prior and after the mission trips to Tbilisi and Abkhazia
Deliverables and timeframe:
Accordingly, the financial proposal should be submitted for up to 30 days of fee-paid expert work. All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal as well.
Payment Modality:
The consultant shall be paid lump sum in installments (according to deliverables stated in ToRs) after the satisfactory completion of each task as certified by UNDP.
Travel costs will be paid per conducted mission and deliverable as specified above. Additional travel related costs will be paid by the UNDP projects.
Core competencies
Functional competencies
Education
Experience
Language Requirements:
Evaluation:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on Cumulative scoring analysis, against combination of technical and financial criteria. Technical evaluation stage encompasses desk review of offers and interviews. Offerors not meeting any of minimum technical qualification requirements will be automatically excluded from the list of offerors for further technical evaluation. In addition, offerors not meeting Language requirements will as well be disqualified. Maximum obtainable score is 100, out of which the total score for technical criteria (desk review and interview) equals to 70 points (70%) and for financial criteria 30 (30%). Offerors who meet language requirements and pass 70% of maximum obtainable scores as a result of desk review (i.e. 40 x 70% = 28 points) will be considered as short-listed Offerors, and will be invited to the interview. Those offerors passing 70% threshold of maximum obtainable scores as a result of the interview, i.e. obtain minimum 21 points will be shortlisted and requested to provide financial proposal.
Financial proposal:
Short-listed Offerors will be requested to provide financial proposal. The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount (with indication of specific sub-components of the payment, including daily fee, travel costs, living allowance etc.), and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include a breakdown of all cost components required to perform the deliverables identified in TOR.
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