12 March 2021

EOI: 01/2021: REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

RESIDENT ADVISOR/CONSULTANT TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE

DIRECTORATE, MINISTRY OF FINANCE (NAMIBIA). 

Grant No: 550015500915 

Project ID No: P-NA-KA0-001 

Project Name : Institutional Strengthening for the Public-Private Partnerships (ISPPP)

 

 

 

The African Development Bank (AFDB) has supported the Ministry of Finance with Grant funding for the purpose of providing capacity building, technical assistance and advisory services to assist the GRN in operationalization of the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) framework – under the Institutional Strengthening of Public Private Partnership (ISPPP) project. The project initially had the following three main components: (i) PPP project preparation; (ii) PPP capacity building; and (iii) Public Investment Management capacity enhancement.

The Ministry of Finance now intends to further apply the grant funding towards procuring the services of a resident advisor/consultant who is proposed to be based at the PPP Directorate of the Ministry of Finance for an initial period of two years, renewable for a further one year period. Immersing an expert in the PPP Unit will allow the PPP Unit officials to benefit from a learning by doing approach and will improve the implementation of Namibia’s PPP program. Detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) for the intended assignment can be obtained by requesting through email from the below contacts.

The Government of Namibia, through the Ministry of Finance now invites individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

The eligibility requirements include: at least a Master’s degree in finance, investments, economics or related field; must have a minimum of 15 years international experience advising on PPP projects (PPP Feasibility Studies, PPP contract, PPP project management, structuring PPP transactions and transaction advisory), at least 3 years in developing countries. The consultant must demonstrate strong experience in: Preparing, structuring and negotiating project finance transactions; Preparing or bidding on international competitive procurements for capital intensive projects; Appraising investment projects, such as conducting due diligence reviews for investors and lenders; Designing and reviewing financial feasibility studies and tariff setting for long term infrastructure investments; Conducting and reviewing Public Sector Comparator (PSC) and VFM analysis for large investment projects. Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy for Bank Group Funded Operations”, dated October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below. Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below or submitted by email by 09 April 2021 at 10:00 hours (Namibia local time). Submissions to be titled: “Expression of Interest for Resident Advisor/Consultant to provide Technical Assistance to the PPP Directorate, Ministry of Finance (Namibia)” [Please note: EOIs must be under 20 pages in length; in case of email submissions transmit a single PDF file of under 4 MBs]

The Director – Public Private Partnerships, Ministry of Finance New Building, Private Bag 13295 Windhoek, Namibia Telephone: +264 61 209 2083/2557

E-mail : [email protected] (copy to: [email protected] and [email protected])