REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT>

Consultancy support to the Moldovan eGovernance Agency
Individual Consultant – Senior Systems Architect
Architectural Reengineering of Core Shared Government Platforms

World Bank Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Competitiveness Project

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Sector: General industry and trade sector
IDA Credit No. 71740
IBRD Loan No. 94230
Project ID No. P177895
Reference No. MD-CEP-566786-CS-INDV

The Republic of Moldova has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Competitiveness Project (MSME) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services ("the Services") include providing hands-on architectural leadership and supporting the assessment, redesign, and modernization of the EVO ecosystem. This encompasses the SRPS as the orchestration and content backbone, the EVO Portal, the EVO Cabinet, EVO Mobile, and the EVO Admin Panel, along with related integration, operational, and administrative components.

The assignment will be implemented in the period from October 2026 – July 2027 with a level of effort of up to 10 man-days/month.

The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment is attached to this request for expressions of interest.

The Project Implementation Unit of the MSME Competitiveness Project now invites eligible individual local consultants ("Consultants") to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The qualifications requirements are:

• University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or another relevant field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, solution architecture, systems architecture, or enterprise architecture.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience designing architectures for complex information systems or digital platforms.
• Proven experience in architectural assessment and reengineering of legacy systems.
• Experience with API and integration architecture, microservices, data architecture, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments and incremental modernization.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Azure, CI/CD, observability platforms and modern deployment practices.
• Experience with identity and access management, resilience, scalability and architecture governance.
• Experience with government digital platforms, registries or interoperability platforms would be an advantage.
• Strong analytical, architectural modelling, documentation and communication skills.
• Excellent command of Romanian and good working knowledge of English.

The Consultant shall provide relevant references to confirm the experience and qualifications.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank's "Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers" November 2020 ("Procurement Regulations"), setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the „Open Competitive Selection of Individual Consultants" method set out in the Procurement Regulations and to be specifically set out in the Request for submission of the technical and financial proposal.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours.

The applications should include a letter of Expression of Interest, CV, and related recommendation letters, if any, together with a copy of CV in MS WORD format.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by e-mail) by September 08, 2026, COBD, indicating the assignment title in subject line.

Project Implementation Unit of the MSME Competitiveness Project
180, Stefan cel Mare Ave., office 815, MD-2004, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Tel: + 373 22 296-723
e-mail: piu@mded.gov.md with cc: procurementmgf@gmail.com
web: https://uipac.md/