REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTANCY SERVICES)
COUNTRY:
Afghanistan
NAME OF THE PROJECT:
Safety Nets and Pensions Support Project (SNPSP)
IMPLEMENTING AGENCY:
Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled
GRANT #:
PROJECT ID:
H-848-AF
113421
Assignment Title:
Consultancy Services for Bio-Metric System for 6 regions
(Balkh, Nangarhar, Herat, Kandahar, Paktia and Kunduz)
Provinces
Reference No:
ASNPSP-113-SCC-CF-
CONTRACT TYPE:
Duration of assignment:
Lump Sum
16 Weeks
a. Background:
The Government of Afghanistan has laid out its vision of reforms in the social protection sector in
the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) – both in the pensions and safety net areas.
In pensions, the main objective is to ensure fiscal sustainability and mitigate fiscal impact of the Pay
and Grading reform on the pension program, making it consistent with the broader public sector
reform agenda. The strategy also recognizes that it is critically important to develop fiscally sound
and well-targeted social protection interventions, including Pension system, safety nets for improving
the poverty outcomes in the country.
More specifically, the Safety Nets and Pensions Support Project (SNPSP) is expected to contribute in
the Designing and implementing administrative modernization of the Public Sector Pension Program
(PSPP) system, Designing and implementing administrative modernization of the Martyrs and
Disabled Pension Program (MDPP) system, Developing administrative systems for safety net
interventions, Delivering targeted benefit payments in pilot districts (including, payment service
provider's fee and FPs services) and Designing and implementing targeting, process and impact
evaluation of safety nets interventions.
The project was initiated in early 2010 with the financial support from World Bank/IDA grants and
will continue until June 2016. The bio metric is implemented in PSPP system and the project wants
to roll out the bio metric to regional offices.
Qualification Required
Only firm meeting the following mandatory requirements will be eligible to participate in the process
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The firm must have been in operations for a minimum of Three (3) consecutive years
The proposed main software firm must have prior experience implementing the
biometric in Pension or M&D MIS
The proposed solution must be an upgradeable and supported
 Verifiable list of similar jobs successfully executed in the last three years including letters of
award, project cost and contact address of the clients
 The firm must train five master trainers on trouble shooting of Hardware and Software
 The firm must provide User Manual and Technical Documentation
 Upon completion of Project all the documents and Software Source code must be submitted to
PST
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Deliverables
Hardware Devices
Software Module
User Operational Manual and Technical Documentation
Software Source Code
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines:
Selection and Employment of Consultants [under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants] by
World Bank Borrowers current edition (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s
policy on conflict of interest.
Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub-consultancy to
enhance their qualifications.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the CQS method set out in the World Bank
Consultant Guidelines.
Further information can be obtained at the address given below from Saturday to Wednesday
during official hours, i.e. 08:00 to 16:00 hours].
Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (hard copy in
person, and soft copy by e-mail) by COB 1st March, 2017.
Procurement Unit
Safety Nets and Pension Support Project (SNPSP)
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD), opposite 1st Makroyan
Market , Kabul Afghanistan.
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 0093(0)700280399