NOTE: Signed Offeror’s Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and availability – https://www.ba.undp.org/content/dam/bosnia_and_herzegovina/docs/Operations/Jobs/Offerors%20Letter%20to%20UNDP%20Confirming%20Interest%20and%20Availability.docx – Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability.docx – to be sent to e-mail ba.shared.hr@undp.org with Subject: Job ID 102034.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, working in 177 countries and territories. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNDP is committed to helping the country through strengthened national and local capacities to carry out political, economic and social reforms and promote development. In the programmatic period 2021-2025, United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework will guide the work of authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the United Nations (UN). Commitment to work together and achieve priorities in BiH is expressed by: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), future accession to the European Union, the Joint Socio-Economic Reforms (Reform Agenda) 2019-2022, and the human rights commitments of BiH, including other agreed international and regional development goals, and treaty obligations and conventions.
The Public Enterprise Integrity Project (PEIP) is part of the Local Development Programme and is a Norway-funded initiative aimed at improving the performance and fiscal responsibility of public companies and institutions, operating primarily in Canton Sarajevo. The Project entails the design and administration of a series of in-depth reviews, looking at how key companies and institutions discharge their mandates and manage the public funding they are entrusted with. In addition to the reviews, the Project entails the design and deployment of a Corruption Risk Mapping tool, aimed at identifying the prospective corruption exposure of public entities, as well as a comprehensive capacity building programme for key personnel of both public corporations and line ministries, tasked with overseeing their work.
As a critical component of its work, the Project is strenthening the oversight capabilities of the relevant line ministries in order to enable them to effectively steer, manage and control the discharge of critical public competencies through the targeted public enterprises. Accordingly, the Ministry of Communal Economy, Infrastructure, Physical Planning, Construction and Environmental Protection of Canton Sarajevo (the Ministry) seeks to conduct a review of public procurement practices across all of its key sectors and thematic areas, focusing in particular on communal affairs and the companies tasked with their conduct. The review will also produce recommendations on how procurement planning and implementation should be managed by the Ministry, and the associated public enterprises, in the future.
The purpose of this consultancy is thus to provide advisory assistance to the Ministry in the process of updating and improving its management of public procurement. To that end, an Expert will be engaged to review and propose improvements to key processes to ensure their efficiency as well as compliance with relevant legislation.