INVITATION TO TENDER
Procurement Reference Number 6-20.02.2023- CCIAS ES
Lobbying Agency/Agent
The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Saida and South Lebanon, Lebanese partner of the ReSt@rts Project is looking for a Lobbying Agency/Agent to disseminate the results and output of the Policy Knowledge Package that will be produced by the Public Policy Expert.
The Lobbying Agency/Agent is responsible for establishing a continuous liaison with public administration’s officials and to provide feedback and impressions.
Interested tenderers can send their tenders as per tender specification and TOR to restarts@ccias.org.lb and cc to chamber@ccias.org.lb
Instruction for submitting tenders and TOR are below.
The Deadline for the invitation of tender has been extended to 31 March 2023, 16:00 pm
Instructions
1. General Information:
Subject of the contract: Provision of Technical services as indicated in the TOR
Deadline for submission of the tenders: The tender shall be submitted no later than 15 March 2023 at 16:00 EET.
Address and means for submission of the tenders: The tenderers shall submit their tenders using the sample submission form available in Part 2 of this tender dossier. The tender shall be submitted in 1 (one) original. In case of e-mail submission, the tenderer may provide a scanned original.
If delivery by post or courier, the tenders shall be submitted in two separate envelopes:
An envelope including both envelopes will contain the following information at the external part:
Name and address of the contracting authority
Title of the tender
Reference number
Name and address of the tenderer
If delivery by e-mail, the message shall clearly indicate:
Title of the tender
Reference number
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The tender submission form and any supporting documentation shall be provided as attachments to the e-mail.
2. Technical Information:
The tenderers are required to provide services as per TOR. In the technical offer, the tenderers will indicate more details on the deliverables and the required time frame.
3. Financial Information
The maximum available value of the contract is 9600 EUR or its equivalent in national currency.
4. The selection criteria:
The award criterion is the best value for money, weighing 80% technical quality and 20% price.
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The offered price includes the execution/delivery of the items described in the technical offer, as well as all the related incidental costs, such as transport, logistics, etc. when required.
Please include a detailed breakdown, in accordance with the items in the technical offer. For fee-based service contracts, including the number of expert days and the daily fees, as well as the breakdown of the incidental costs.
Term of Reference
Post Title: Lobbying Agency/Agent
Project Name: Reinforcing Med Microfinance Network System for Start-ups (ReSt@rts)
Duty station: Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Sidon and South Lebanon
Duration and Assignment: Around 5 months, starting from March 2023 till July 2023 with the possibility of extension.
Background
As a partner in the ReSt@rts project, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Sidon and South Lebanon (CCIAS) is implementing the project activities in Lebanon. ReSt@rts - Med Microfinance Network System for Start-ups – the project is funded with € 1,106,559.76 by the European Union’s ENI CBC Med Programme and implemented between 20/09/2021 and 19/09/2023 in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Tunisia, Palestine and Lebanon by a partnership of 8 organizations.
ReSt@rts addresses young people with the aim to increase employment opportunities and improve the living conditions of the vulnerable population. The objective of the intervention is to create continuity for the previous project MEDSt@rts with an approach to foster ethical and solidarity finance and public-private collaboration, it is intended to bring support to entrepreneurs generally not bankable through the instruments of microfinance, with the structuring of a Marketplace platform and technical assistance service.
Scope of work:
The Lobbying Agency/ Agent will be in charge of disseminating the results and output of the Policy Knowledge Package that will be produced by the Public Policy Expert. The Policy Knowledge Package will be composed of the manifesto with technical and policy guidelines to be delivered to National and Regional public authorities involved in the implementation of innovative programs for supporting the creation of new businesses, and that are managing programs devoted to access to finance.
The objective of this document is to introduce the results of ReSt@rts to the regional and European policies through the construction of new synergies with funding programs and other projects so that the results of ReSt@rts can be translated into the development of new territorial cooperation and European programming policies, being shared, evaluated and reused.
Output
Deliverables
● Video Recording of the meetings, other related activities
● Photos, Attendance sheet
● Newsletters/ Press releases (in at least two languages)
● Submitting a final report of all activities
Qualification, Knowledge and Experience
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