REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consulting services – firm selection)

 Date: August 13, 2021

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Moldova Agricultural Competitiveness Project (MACP)

Assignment Title: Consulting Company to conduct a Public Awareness Campaign aimed at promoting the best practices for compliance with the animal by-products (ABP) management requirements under MACP

Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan): MD-CAPMU-245540-CS-CQS

Moldova has received an Additional Financing (AF) from the International Development Association in the amount of US$15.0 million for the Moldova Agriculture Competitiveness Project (MAC-P). The AF will be used for scaling up project activities under Component 1: Enhancing Food Safety Management aimed at strengthening human, institutional, and technical capacities of the country’s food safety and quality management systems and ensuring regulatory and system compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards on premium food export markets (primarily European Union [EU] and EU-aligned markets). To this end, the AF will finance a series of activities and investments aiming at establishing a comprehensive, EU-compliant system for the management of animal by-products (ABPs) unintended for human consumption.

The selected consulting company shall conduct a comprehensive outreach and awareness campaign aimed at inducing change in the behavior of generators of ABPs. In addition to the largest generators of ABPs (slaughterhouses, meat producing establishments), a particular focus will be placed on smallholder and backyard household animal husbandry systems to ensure that these stakeholders have ample information on opportunities to safely dispose of animal carcasses and other types of ABPs. To ensure success, the outreach and awareness campaign will be implemented in close collaboration with local public authorities, which have the best knowledge of the number of animals in backyard household systems and have the most salient interest in ensuring that livestock owners manage ABPs in a safe and responsible manner.

The Consolidated  Agricultural  Projects’  Management  Unit  on  behalf  of  Ministry  of  Agriculture, Regional Development  and Environment  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.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, Revised November 2017 and August 2018 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Consultant’s Qualification Based-Selection method set out in the above-mentioned “Procurement Regulations”.

Expressions of interest must be submitted by e-mail to the address below by September 17, 2021, cob.

Consolidated Agricultural Projects’ Management Unit (CAPMU)

Attn: Cornel Bordeianu, Procurement Officer

of.  215,  50 Capriana  str., ASEM, Bloc C, 2^nd floor   

Chisinau,  MD-2005,  Republic  of  Moldova

E-mail: office@capmu.md; capmu@capmu.md, with copy to: cbordeianu@capmu.md.