Minimum Eligibility Criteria:
Educational Qualification:
- Masters’ Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or Economics, or Social Science or other specialized fields related to micro-finance.
Working Experience
- At least 10 years of development experience in UN/INGOs/NGOs in programme design, management, Manuals, guidelines, and curriculum & materials development, conduct consultation/interview, prepare high quality reports and high level of training facilitation skills in Savings & Credit focused programmes.
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible Micro finance management experience at senior level is required with national or international organizations.
- Experience in developing self-sustaining business model in micro finance, internal control mechanism, financial inclusion and strengthening financial institutions are valuable assets to this position.
- Experience in community-Managed Savings & Credit or Community Banking model and Financial governance is highly desirable
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
- Experience of working in UN bi-lateral project with multi donor approach and familiar to work with GoB.
- Experience of urban set-up (Paurashava/City Corporation) and excellent understanding of donor and GoB compliances of financial management.
Cumulative analysis
When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual Consultant whose
offer has been evaluated and determined as:
a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the
solicitation.
- Technical Criteria weight: 70%
- Financial Criteria weight: 30%
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% point in technical criteria would be considered for the Financial Evaluation
Technical Evaluation Criteria
- Level and relevance of education- 15 marks
- Proposed approach, qualitative tools, analysis, and framework; and timeline- 10 marks
- Experience in design and development of strategic plan, high level of analytical skills, conduct FGD/interview, prepare high quality reports and high level of training facilitation skills in Savings & Credit programme –15 marks
- Experience in design & develop sustainable development programme for the Urban Poor, remodeling ongoing programmes activities and/or managing development projects including training programmes and capacity building initiatives for the local government and community-based organizations and in-depth knowledge on community banking, financial inclusion and community led Savings &Credit programme- 15 marks
- Experience working with UNDP or INGOs or NGOs in Bangladesh at various development projects/programme in Micro Credit or Savings & Credit Programme at senior level in development sectors- 15 marks
All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will
be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received points according to the following formula:
p = y (µ/z)
where:
- p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated;
- y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal;
- µ = price of the lowest priced proposal;
- z = price of the proposal being evaluated.
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payment:
Lump-sum contracts
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump-sum amount and payment terms around specific and measurable qualitative and quantitative) deliverables. Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the ToR. To assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump-sum amount as indicated in Annexure-II.
Tentative payment schedule
- 1st payment: 20% of total contract value will be paid after submission and acceptance of Inception Report and Draft Concept note on Savings &Credit Sustainability plan.
- 2nd payment: 50% of total contract value will be paid after submission and acceptance of Final Savings &Credit Sustainability Plan
- 3rd and final Payment: 30% of total contract value will be paid after completed the assignment completion reports.
DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
Proposal
Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
Personal CV, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references;
Brief description of why the individual considers him/her self as the most suitable for the assignment and Work plan, as to how they will approach and completed the assignment. Provide link for the relevant publications (at least 3);
Financial Proposal: Financial Proposal has to be submitted through a standard interest and availability template which can be downloaded from the link below: