Country: Republic of Moldova
Project: TB Regional EECA Project (TB-REP) on Strengthening Health Systems for Effective TB and DR-TB Control
Grant No.: QMZ-T-PAS
Assignment Title: Independent mid-term review of the regional TB REP project
The Center for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Center) has receivedfinancing from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria toward the cost of the „ TB Regional EECA Project (TB-REP) on Strengthening Health Systems for Effective TB and DR-TB Control” Grant, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.
The consulting services (“the Services”) include providing to the TB REP project team, donor and stakeholders in the TB area an external view on the project course of implementation and a general assessment of the emerging outcomes. The assignment is described in Terms of Reference (ToR) that are attached.
The PAS Center now invites eligible consulting firms (“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 Qualification requirements and basis for evaluation (evaluation criteria) are:
- General experience (30 points):
- Minimum ten years of experience in conducting assessment and evaluation of multicountry projects;
- Experience of working with international organizations and/or national agencies implementing externally funded programs and projects;
- Technical capacities to ensure smooth implementation and high-quality outputs;
2. Specific experience (40 points):
- Proven experience in assessing projects/programmes in the area of health care, preferably related to TB control (Please provide the list of evaluation studies completed in the last 10 years with a short description of the key objectives and the links to the available reports);
- Proven experience in evaluating multi-country projects funded by international donors (Please provide the list of evaluation studies completed in the last 10 years with a short description of the key objectives and the links to the available reports);
- Key personnel, professional experience (30 points):
- Qualified staff with general experience in project/programme evaluation
- Minimum 2 key experts (public health, social sciences) to be assigned for the required assignment;
- Proven experience of the assigned personnel in conducting at least three similar assignments in the EECA region;
- Availability of the personnel to conduct the work in the specified region;
- Excellent spoken and written English skills, decent command of the Russian language is considered an asset
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants] by World Bank Borrowers dated January 2011, revised July 2014 (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub-consultancy to enhance their qualifications.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Selection Based on the Consultants’ Qualifications (CQS) method set out in the Consultant Guidelines.
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 09.00 AM to 18.00 PM o’clock, Moldova local time.
Svetlana Nicolaescu – Program Coordinator, PAS Center
Tel: (+373 22) 22 63 43 ext.111
fax: (+373 22) 22 63 87
E-mail: cezar.captaciuc@pas.md