AADCP II Consulting Opportunity for Enchancing the ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System

ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program (AADCP) Phase II

Consulting opportunity for Enhancing the ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System (ACPMS)

The ASEAN Secretariat invites applications for a medium-term (7 person months) consultancy for the Enhancing the ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System project under the ASEAN Australia Development Cooperation Program (AADCP) Phase II supported by Australian Aid.

Needs and Objectives

ASEAN needs an analytical tool for monitoring the achievement of ASEAN Community goals and to support evidence or knowledge-based decision making and policy creation in the region. The ACPMS is designed to be such a tool by providing quantitative, outcome-based measures of progress in the various priority areas towards ASEAN integration.

The project will start making available a statistical report on the state and progress of the ASEAN Community in the achievement of its key societal outcomes based on the ACPMS. The report could complement the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Scorecard which can be regularly presented to the ASEAN Leaders, ASEAN policy makers and ASEAN citizens in general. The report could also complement the outputs of/ or be further developed into a more comprehensive monitoring tool of the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office (AIMO) of the ASEAN Secretariat, the new Office designated to monitor the progress of ASEAN integration activities.

Bidding

The work may be implemented by an individual, group of individuals, or a firm. Interested parties are invited to submit a proposal in response to this announcement.

The proposal should be in two parts: technical and financial.

The technical component should present the following information:

· A brief discussion indicating the bidder’s understanding of the needs of the project ;

· A brief analysis of key issues;

· A methodological discussion of how the bidder proposes to address those needs including assessment of key issues, analytical strategies and approaches that will underlie the project and specific techniques to be utilized;

· A detailed workplan that specifies activities to be undertaken, expected outputs, resources to be utilized and timing;

· Management plan;

· A discussion on how measures to ensure the future sustainability of the outcomes of the project will be addressed;

· CVs of all proposed experts;

· Brief discussion of firm’s past experience in undertaking similar work and brief summaries of all projects undertaken.

The financial component should specify all direct and indirect costs, in US dollars, including billing rates for experts, workshops, etc. The selected bidder will be offered a lump-sum, output-based contract for the provision of the required services with scheduled milestone payments. The award of the contract will be subject to the negotiation of a mutually acceptable agreement.

Visit our website at http://www.asean.org/jobs/AADCP-24.pdf for further information on job specifications and application procedures.

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be notified.

Closing date: 23 September 2011