The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is the specialized institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) responsible for health issues.
Its mandate is to provide high-level health care to the populations of the sub-region. Communicable and non-communicable diseases are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the region; therefore, disease control and epidemic prevention are among the priorities of the 15 countries of the ECOWAS region and constitute a central tenet of WAHO’s activities.
The World Bank has provided grants to ECOWAS for WAHO to implement the following two (2) projects:
It is within the framework of the implementation of these projects that the OOAS is seeking to recruit a qualified and experienced Procurement Assistant.
Description of services
The Procurement Assistant will be responsible for assisting the Procurement Specialist (PS) on a daily basis in the effective and efficient conduct of procurement and contract management activities in World Bank funded projects and WAHO activities, in accordance with World Bank and ECOWAS requirements and procedures.
Functions and responsibilities:
Under the coordination of the General Coordinator of the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the West African Health Organization (WAHO) and the direct supervision of the Procurement Specialist, the Procurement Assistant will assist the latter (SPM) on a daily basis in the effective and efficient conduct of activities related to procurement and calls for tenders for projects and WAHO.
Among his or her tasks, he or she will be responsible for:
Documents to provide
WAHO now invites eligible individual Consultants (“Consultants”) to express their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants will be required to provide information demonstrating that they have the relevant qualifications and experience to provide the Services.
Interested consultants are invited to submit an application package including:
Qualifications, experience and skills
Selection method and procedure
The individual consultant will be selected based on the Individual Consultant Selection method in accordance with the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for Borrowers Requesting Investment Project Financing (IPF), fifth edition of September 2023.
Following the call for expressions of interest, a shortlist of qualified candidates will be drawn up. The candidates thus pre-selected will be invited to an oral test to select the best candidate to invite to the contract negotiation.
Duration, place of assignment and nature of the agreement
The contract is concluded for a fixed period of two (02) years, renewable for the duration of the active program or project in the portfolio of projects financed by the World Bank, depending on satisfactory annual performance evaluations and available funding.
For this purpose, clear performance evaluation indicators will be defined.
OOAS reserves the right to terminate the contract if the consultant’s annual performance evaluation is not deemed satisfactory.
However, the decision to renew or terminate the contract must be subject to the non-objection of the World Bank.
The Procurement Assistant will be based at WAHO Headquarters in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. He or she will travel throughout the ECOWAS region as required.
Other information about the submission
Interested individual consultants may also obtain additional information on the reference documents at the email address below, during working hours, Monday through Friday, 08:00 to 16:00: [email protected]
They can also download the terms of reference or this call for expressions of interest from the WAHO website: https://data.wahooas.org/tenders/tenders/list
Interested and suitably qualified individual consultants are invited to express their interest by submitting their application electronically to https://data.wahooas.org/tenders/tenders/list
The deadline for receipt of applications is 25 November 2024 at 12:00 GMT.
The costs of preparing and sending the expression of interest are the responsibility of the consultant.
Tagged as: Burkina Faso, OOAS, Procurement, WAHO
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