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EVALUATION AND PREPARATION OF TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR UPGRADING THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION’S FINANCIAL/MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Request For Expressions of Interest

General Information
Country:   Croatia
Publication Date:   Apr 25, 2003
Deadline:   May 9, 2003
Funding Agency:   World Bank
Buyer:   Technical Assistance for Institutional Regulatory Reform for Private Sector Development Project. Central Bureau of Statistics
Eligibility of Bidders:   The consultants will be evaluated on the following criteria: 1. overall profile, services, products offered by the company; 2. quality of the key staff; 3. alignment of the profile with the task required; 4. experience on similar projects preformed in past; 5. participation by national and international key stuff.
The Ministry of Science and Technology now invites eligible consultants to indicate their expressions of interest for the above job with the information about qualification and previous performance on similar jobs (main profile, expertise, products and services offered by company, educational and professional profiles of the key (3-5) people, including international profile, number and short description of projects (list of clients) similar to this one, performed in the past)
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

****EVALUATION AND PREPARATION OF TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR
UPGRADING THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION’S
FINANCIAL/MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Consulting Services
Publication Date: 25 April 2003

Request for Expressions of Interest

CROATIA

Loan No. 44600

Contract/Bid No.n/a

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 EVALUATION AND PREPARATION OF TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS FOR UPGRADING THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTION’S FINANCIAL/MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

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:

- Information systems or technology planning services

The requested services would include: design of technical
specifications of an optimum new user-friendly accounting system (AS)
and management information system (MIS) which would provide all the
functionality needed in the most effective way. This includes the
technical definition and specification for current and expected future
needs: · structure and scope of data, reporting needs and interfaces
for various types of users, · responsibilities, verification and
updating of data, · correlation with business procedures, · requests
for flexibility and future upgrades and localizations, · ways of
communication with external data sources, · integration of specific
needs as requested by RDIs, etc.

The consultants will be evaluated on the following criteria: 1.
overall profile, services, products offered by the company; 2. quality
of the key staff; 3. alignment of the profile with the task required;
4. experience on similar projects preformed in past; 5. participation
by national and international key stuff. The Ministry of Science and
Technology now invites eligible consultants to indicate their
expressions of interest for the above job with the information about
qualification and previous performance on similar jobs (main profile,
expertise, products and services offered by company, educational and
professional profiles of the key (3-5) people, including international
profile, number and short description of projects (list of clients)
similar to this one, performed in the past).

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 16:00. Expressions of interest must be delivered
to the address below by 9 May 2003.

***** 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]



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[2] mailto:: Pscalabrin@worldbank.org
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