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The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas has received financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), toward the cost of the Government Digital Transformation to Strengthen Competitiveness Programme and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the above-referenced consulting services. The consulting services (“the Services”) will be to design and implement a nationally representative survey that will have two questionnaires. They will include: 1) A business questionnaire to examine characterization of businesses; likelihood of digital uptake; perception of government data; and ease of doing business; and, 2) A government service user questionnaire to examine perception of government services, availability, utilization frequency, and customer satisfaction. The sampling methodology will be a stratified random sample, and cross sectional (The survey will be repeated annually over a period of five years. Re-engagement will be based on an annual satisfactory review). The following are the key activities of the engagement:
Please refer to IADB.ORG for further information on the loan.
Firm experience and competencies desired include:
The Office of The Prime Minister 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. Consultants will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Inter-American Development Bank: Policies for the Selection and Contracting of Consultants financed by the Inter-American Development Bank GN-2350-15 and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the policies.
Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub-consultancy to enhance their qualifications. For the purpose of establishing the short list, the nationality of a firm is that of the country in which it is legally incorporated or constituted and in the case of Joint Venture, the nationality of the firm appointed to represent it. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the Consultant Policies. The EOI responses will be evaluated and the top five (5) firms will advance and receive copies of the RFP.
Further information, i.e. questions or clarifications may be obtained from The Procurement Specialist of the Digitization and Transformation Project Execution Unit at DTUPROCUREMENT@BAHAMAS.GOV.BS on or before the 23rd November, 2020.
Expressions of interest must be submitted in a written form, directly addressed to the below via email to DTUPROCUREMENT@BAHAMAS.GOV.BS on or before 5:00pm on 7th December, 2020. LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
ATTENTION: The Permanent Secretary, Department of Transformation and Digitization, Office of the Prime Minister, Cecil Wallace-Whitfield Centre, West Bay Street, MARKED FOR: Annual Survey on Digital Government for Competitiveness’. | ||||
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