The
purpose of this assignment is to provide UNOPS with a high-level understandi...
The
purpose of this assignment is to provide UNOPS with a high-level understanding
of the status of public procurement in Ukraine, including ongoing and planned
activities by the government and international partners to improve procurement
capacity and practices. On that basis, the consultant will make recommendations
on which areas could benefit from UNOPS expertise, identify potential
collaboration areas, and help develop UNOPS programmes that address the
identified needs.
- Monitoring & Progress
Controls
The
consultant will be in charge of the following activities:
- Review
the UNOPS methodology for such procurement assessments and adapt it for this
assignment. The UNOPS methodology typically includes consideration of:
- Regulatory
framework
- Strategic
procurement issues
- Governance
& anticorruption
- Procurement
operations & management
- System
performance
- Support
functions
- Business
perception of public contracting
- Procurement
under Overseas Development Assistance
- Identification
of sources for desk review, according to the topics defined in the
methodology.
- Assessment of the
procurement system based on the results of the desk-review. The
methodology provides a number of premises
(assertions) describing the features and situation of an ideal procurement
system (e.g. positive statements). Each system under analysis will hold those
premises true to different levels, hence a scoring criterion is provided.
- Interviews
and consultations with key stakeholders in Ukraine to complement the desk
review assessment.
- Final
conclusions and recommendations. The consultant will prepare a short and
concise thematic brief, following a structure provided by UNOPS, highlighting
the issues with specific recommendations for a public procurement reform
strategy. The assessment will follow the logic of observation -
interpretation/conclusion - recommendation.
2.
Deliverables
- During the inception phase
- Review the methodology
and questionnaires already prepared, so as to be aligned and familiar with them
in advance of the assignment
- Preliminary findings
and issues (high level) to UNOPS based on the desk review and associated
assessment;
- List of institutions and
contacts to be interviewed at the country level;
- Preliminary
findings and issues (high level) to UNOPS following the interviews;
- Interview
minutes.
- Interviews at the county level
- Following the data gathering and analysis
- The first draft of the
assessment report for UNOPS review and comments, covering the following;
- Executive
Summary
- Background
and Purpose
- Methodology
- Details
of Findings
- Recommendations
and action plan for the short, medium and long term, including on
governance, management and support structures
- Annexes:
List of interviewees, organizations visited; Documentary references; Completed
public procurement questionnaire.
- The final version of the
assessment report based on UNOPS prior review and comments;
- Draft
findings and recommendations in a presentation highlighting the salient points
of the findings and the recommendations to be presented at a later stage to
Government and Donor stakeholders;
- List
of potential UNOPS programmes that would address Government needs, each
accompanied with an initial one-page concept note.
D.
Support partnership building with the Government and international actors
- Participate
in the presentation of the report to the Government and donors, as appropriate.
- Based
on dialogue with the Government and donors, help prepare concept notes and
proposals for UNOPS programmes that address Government needs
- Support
the development and funding of programmes, including meetings with Government
and donors
- List
of potential partners that can benefit from UNOPS expertise.
All written deliverables shall be prepared
in the English language.
The
payment of the consultant will be based on the timely delivery and approval by
the UNOPS Country Director of the agreed deliverables.
3.
Work plan
Depending
on the scale of the context, the level of existing knowledge, and the level of
detail expected, this research process (i.e. completion of deliverables A-C)
might take up to two months to complete. The support to partnership building
with the Government and international actors in procurement is likely to
continue during the remaining part of 2021 and beyond.