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Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation project

Request For Expressions of Interest

General Information
Country:   Croatia
Publication Date:   Nov 7, 2002
Deadline:   Nov 22, 2002
Funding Agency:   World Bank
Buyer:   Technical Assistance for Institutional Regulatory Reform for Private Sector Development Project. Central Bureau of Statistics
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   Paola Scalabrin
1818 H Street NW,
Washington DC
United States
Telephone:   (1-202) 473-3051
Fax:   (1-202) 522-0078
Email:   Click here

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******TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR INSTITUTIONAL REGULATORY REFORM FOR
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

****Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation project

Consulting Services
Publication Date: 7 November 2002

Request for Expressions of Interest

CROATIA

Loan No. 44600

The Government of Croatia has received a loan from the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the amount of USD 7,300,000
equivalent toward the cost of the Technical Assistance for
Institutional Regulatory Reform for Private Sector Development
Project, and it intends to apply the proceeds of this loan to payments
under the contract for Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation
project.

The Technical Assistance Project for Institutional and Regulatory
Reform for Private Sector Development supports the encouragement for
private sector development, as specified by the Country Assistance
Strategy (CAS), through business improvement, conducive to private
sector growth. The main components of the project include: 1) The
creation of regulatory and institutional frameworks for public
utilities, to include advisory services for the design of a new
organizational structure, and development of detailed regulations, to
assist the Office for the Restructuring and Economics of State-owned
Enterprises (ORESE). Advisory services to the Ministry of Economy will
be available to draft new energy laws, covering power, gas, and
petroleum products. 2) The strengthening of the Agency for the
Protection of Market Competition (APMC), will be accomplished through
the provision of advisory services, for the development of secondary
legislation for the 1995 Competition Law. Assistance will support the
development plan for the APMC, in compliance with the Competition Law.
3) Institutional strengthening assistance will be provided to
financial and statistical agencies, as well as for bank privatization
activities.

ECSPF now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in
providing the following services:

- Lot 1:

- Outreach and selection skilled workers, engineers, and managers
from Croatian SME, in collaboration with a local existing
organization (Supply services of personnel)
- Outreach and selection skilled workers, engineers, and managers
from Croatian SME, in collaboration with a local existing
organization (Supply services of personnel)

- Lot 2:

- organization and provision of basic language/culture training in
1-2 locations in Croatia; placement of candidates for on-the-job
training stages of 3+ months with successful Italian companies/
organizations, interested in the proposition (Training services)

- Lot 3:

- taking care of all relevant legal, bureaucratic, and
organizational requirements (Legal services)

Expected duration of the consulting services is 12 months.

Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they
are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of
similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of
appropriate skills among staff, etc.). Consultants may associate to
enhance their qualifications. Consultants will be selected in
accordance with the procedures set out in the |World Bank| Selection
and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers[1].

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address
below from 09:00 to 12:00. Expressions of interest must be delivered
to the address below by 22 November 2002.

***** Office for Submission of Expressions of Interest and for
Obtaining Further Information :

ECSPF
Paola Scalabrin
1818 H Street NW,
Washington DC
United States
Tel: (1-202) 473-3051
Fax: (1-202) 522-0078
E-mail: : Pscalabrin@worldbank.org[2]



[1] http://www.worldbank.org/html/opr/consult/contents.html
[2] mailto:: Pscalabrin@worldbank.org
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