ADDENDUM NR.1
TO THE REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Nr.ARAA/SYRIMAO/2019/004

• The deadline for submission of the expressions of interest initially scheduled for December 04, 2019 is postponed to December 20, 2019.
• All other terms remain unchanged.

The Commission of Economic Communitity Of West African States (“ECOWAS”) has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following project “Innovative Regional Fruit Flies Control System in West Africa - SyRIMAO”.

The Services of the consultant shall consist of the implementation, the coordination and the monitoring of the component “Research-Action-Development” of the project. The Services are described in Annex 1.

The ECOWAS hereby invites Applicants to show their interest in delivering the Services described above.

This Request for Expressions of Interest is open to Individual consultants.

Eligibility criteria to AFD financing are specified in sub-clause 1.3 of the "Procurement Guidelines for AFD Financed Contracts in Foreign Countries", available online on AFD’s website: http://www.afd.fr.

The Applicant shall submit only one application.

Interested Applicants must provide information evidencing that they are qualified and experienced to perform those Services. For that purpose, documented evidence of recent and similar services shall be submitted.

Among the submitted applications, ECOWAS will shortlist a maximum of five (5) Applicants, to whom the Request for Proposals to carry out the Services shall be sent.

The interested bidders must send their expression of interest at the latest on December 4, 2019 via email to ecowas.dadr.proc@gmail.com, and under the reference “AMI SyRIMAO RAD”.

Interested Applicants may obtain further information at the same address mentioned above.

The expression of interest file must compulsory contain the following documents:

• Letter of expression of interest (according to the model given in Annex 2)
• Form of Consultant’s skills and experiences to be provided to the project (according to the model given in Annex 3)
• Statement of Integrity, Eligibility and Environmental and Social Responsibility (Annex 4)
• Registration certificate from Trade Registry
• Shall not exceed 9 pages; and
• Will be constituted of a single PDF document of less than 5 MBs

Any incomplete file, and / or including more documents than those requested, and / or not respecting one or both the points B or C, and / or arriving after the fixed date will be automatically rejected

Mission

Presentation of the mission

The project Coordination will be done from Lomé, Togo. The Project Unit (PU) will be composed of four consultants. The Regional Coordinator and the Expert “Administration and Finances” will stand in Lomé within the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF) that is the ECOWAS projects implementing agency. The technical experts (SVA and RAD) will be based in Abuja (Nigeria) within the ECOWAS Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Under the project coordinator responsibility and supervision, the expert will be in charge of the implementation and monitoring of component 1 of the Project: Research-Action-Development.

The expert will be in charge of:

• directly support the National Specialization Center in Fruit and Vegetables of BoboDioulasso in its certification procedures to reach the highest international standards and in the approval of developed biopesticides within the framework of the component;
• support countries in the choice of research protocols to be supported by the project;
• define and implement a strategy for the widespread dissemination of research results;
• provide targeted training sessions to national laboratories that will request for it;
• monitor the component to ensure regional coherence of research activities;
• write the terms of reference of the ad hoc consultants that can be recruited as part of the implementation of its component;
• supervise the consultants or external contractors missions recruited and validate their reports.

In terms of planning and reporting, the expert will be required to contribute in the drafting of at least the following action plans and reports:

• the quarterly monitoring and evaluation report of RAAF;
• semiannual report for ECOWAS and financial partners;
• annual report for ECOWAS and financial partners;
• project annual action plans and their possible amendments.

Other plans, annual work programs and budgets, and / or reports may however be requested by ECOWAS and / or financial partners. The expert will then be required to contribute in their drafting.

Consultant Profile

The expert will have an agronomist, plant pathologist or entomologist profile and will have at least 7 years' experience in disseminating new large-scale farming techniques. He/she will have good knowledge of the mango sector in West Africa.

• He/she will have a good knowledge of West African research institutes, their functioning and constraints.
• He/she will have at least one experience in the animation of a network of focal points in different countries / different structures.
• He/she will have at least one work experience in a regional or multi-countries project.
• He/she will have a good knowledge of the West African institutional context.
• He/she will have abilities to work fluently in French and English (bilingual confirmed, knowledge of Portuguese is appreciated), and confirmed skills in writing, synthesis and communication.
• He/she will have good knowledge / experiences of ECOWAS, EU and AFD procedures.
• He/she will be available for many trips in the sub region.

The interested bidders must send their expression of interest at the latest on December 20, 2019 via email to ecowas.dadr.proc@gmail.com, and under the reference “AMI SyRIMAO RAD”.