TA Preparatory Services: Legal & Procedural Study and Recommendations; Dispute Resolution and Resettlement Policy Framework; Environmental, Social & Gender Screening Tools; Production of Field Operations Manual

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

COUNTRY: REPUBLIC OF CAPE VERDE

NAME OF PROJECT: MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT – CAPE VERDE II

RFP Ref: LMI-A01/CIF

 

Re: Preparatory Services: Legal & Procedural Study and Recommendations; Dispute Resolution and Resettlement Policy Framework; Environmental, Social & Gender Screening Tools; production of Field Operations Manual

1. The U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a five-year, $66.2 million compact with the Government of Cape Verde in February 2012 to reduce poverty through economic growth. The $41.1 million Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Project is designed to establish a financially sound, transparent and accountable institutional basis for the delivery of water and sanitation services to Cape Verdean households and businesses. The $17.3 million Land Management for Investment Project is expected to improve Cape Verde’s investment climate by refining the legal, institutional and procedural environment to create conditions for increased reliability of land information, greater efficiency in land administration transactions, and strengthened protection of land rights; developing and implementing a new land information management system; and clarifying parcel rights and boundaries on targeted islands with high investment potential.

2. The Government of the Republic of Cape Verde has received grant funding of approximately four million United States Dollars (US$4,000,000) (“Compact Implementation Funding”) from MCC to facilitate implementation preparation of the Millennium Challenge Compact, and it intends to apply a portion of the MCC Funding to eligible payments under a contract for which the Request for Proposals is issued. Any payments made under the proposed contract will be subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of the Compact and related documents, including restrictions on the use of MCC funding and conditions to the disbursements of MCC funding. No party other than the Government shall derive any rights from the Compact or have any claim to the proceeds of MCC funding.

3. In furtherance of the development of the proposed Land for Investment Project, the MCA-Cape Verde II requires the services of consulting firm to provide the following specific tasks:

Component 1 – Legal & Institutional Study: conducting of a study into the existing legal and procedural framework for land and property rights adjudication, administration and registration;

Component 2 - Environmental, Social and Gender Screening Tools: development of tools for identifying and screening potential environmental, social and gender constraints and opportunities associated with the mapping of parcels, identification of rights claims and adjudication and registration of land rights;

Component 3 – Resettlement Policy Framework & Dispute Resolution: development of a Resettlement Policy Framework to support dispute resolution approaches, defining procedures consistent with Cape Verdean law and meeting the minimum standards defined in IFC Performance Standard 5 on Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement;

Component 4 - Operations Manual: production of an Operations Manual, to guide all steps involved in the preparation for and implementation of the Activity 2 fieldwork operations of clarifying and registering parcel rights and boundaries in the agreed pilot areas. Location: City of Praia, Cape Verde Anticipated Start Date: November 2012 Duration of Assignment: 24 weeks

4.The MCA – CV II now invites eligible consulting firms to submit their technical and financial proposals for the required assignment. The consulting firm should have a first-rate experience in the urban and rural land administration and property rights registration, in drafting legal and procedural change in the land sector, in legal research studies in the field of land and property rights administration and registration.

Project Management and key personnel considerations should include:

1. Education background and training;

2. Curriculum and years of demonstrated experience of project team members; and

3. Individual experience related to proposed work that demonstrated an understanding of the specific work to be performed. Portuguese language skills of the team must be sufficient for technical communications and presentations with stakeholders in Portuguese and for preparation of all deliverables in the Portuguese language.

5. A full request for proposal document in English, including the Terms of Reference (TOR), may be requested by the interested Consultancy Firms in writing to the address below. The RFP document will be sent in PDF format by e-mail.

6. The selection shall be carried out in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 1.B. of the MCC Program Procurement Guidelines (PPG), which are available on the “Business & Procurements” page of the MCC website (http://www.mcc.gov). The selected firm will sign a contract (Section 5 of the RFP) on the basis of a fixed price/fee lump sum.

7. Interested Bidders are requested to send their proposals, which should include a TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL PROPOSAL following instructions on the RFP document (Section I. Instructions to Consultants, Point 4: Submission, receipt and opening proposal (4.4).

8. Interested bidders may obtain further information from the e-mail addresses below, during office hours 08:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 16:00 Cape Verde Local Time, from Monday to Friday.

9. Deadline for submission of the Proposals in the format as indicated in the Request for proposal (RFP) document, that is for Technical proposal (Forms TECH 1 -11) and for Financial Proposal (Forms FIN 1-4) should be addressed to the Procurement Manager in closed and sealed envelopes at the address indicated below by September 7, 2012, 11h00 a.m. Cape Verde local time.

 

Millennium Challenge Account – Cape Verde II (MCA-CV II)

Attn: Ms. Maria de Lourdes S.A da Silva

Largo MCA-CV II

Prédio Cartório, 1° Andar Achada de Santo António Praia, Republic of Cape Verde

E-mail: MariaA.silva@mca.cv; concurso@mca.cv