REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – LOCAL IDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT)

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Support to Preparation of Modernization of Government Services in the Republic of Moldova Project

ECAPDEV Grant No. TF0A2299

Assignment Title: Consulting Services for Preparation of Technical Specifications for Information Systems Development

Reference No.: IC-09/2.2; IC-10/2.2; IC-11/2.2

From 2006 to 2013, Moldova modernized its civil service legislation and administrative processes under the Central Public Administration Reform (CPAR), supported by the Bank's administered CPAR MDTF. However, additional efforts are needed to transform Moldova public administration and bring it closer to the EU standards as planned under the action plan for implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU, signed in 2014.

Governance is identified as a cross-cutting issue and interventions are planned to improve the business enabling environment, enhance public administration reform and quality of public service delivery. The Government has requested the World Bank’s assistance for a PAR operation, planned for delivery in FY17.

In order to facilitate preparation activities for an effective project implementation, a grant has been made available to Government of Moldova to support, among other things, consultations and technical design for public services modernization reform, including preparation of bidding documents for e‑services component of the project under preparation.

Another key area of the project is re-engineering and digitization of e-services for citizens and businesses that will be delivered via a unified G2C/G2B portal and so-called USPCs (Universal service provision centers). The list of the e-services included in the current assignment was identified and prioritized together with World Bank project team and State Chancellery taking into account selection criteria like impact, complexity, cost, implementation time and in demand by the Moldovan citizen and businesses.

For this purpose, the e-Government Center of Moldova is hiring individual consultants to prepare technical specifications to serve as support for development of bidding documents for Information Systems procurement.

The e-Government Centre now invites individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions,) and meet the following minimum qualification requirements:

·         University degree in areas such as economics, business administration, public administration, computer sciences, engineering or telecommunications or related;

·         Minimum 7 years of experience in IT area;

·         Familiarity with Republic of Moldova’s e-Government architecture and platforms;

·         Excellent understanding of web technologies;

·         Excellent understanding the database development and programming;

·         Excellent understanding of system design process;

·         Familiarity with the regulatory framework in ICT field;

·         Proven track record of business analysis and writing technical specifications in similar assignments (min. 3 years);

·         Experience with donor funded programs/projects and World Bank procurement procedures and standard bidding documents would be an asset;

·         Ability to effectively communicate and write in Romanian and English;

Time Frame: This is a short-term assignment expected to commence in September, 2017. The estimated level of effort (LoE) per each set ofTechnical specifications is 30 days.

Interested qualified candidates should submit their expressions of interest/CVs with the mark “Business Analyst” by September 8, 2017 to the address below:

E-Government Center of the Republic of Moldova

Attn: Eugeniu Ursu, Executive Director

MD-2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova,

42, A. Puskin str, buildings B and G,

Phone: (+373 22) 820-021

Mobile phone: (+373 79) 886-655

e-mail: procurements@egov.md [6]