ACF - Mental Health Study - Consulting Services Tender, Liberia - 90132022

Procurement Summary

Country : Liberia

Summary : ACF - Mental Health Study - Consulting Services

Deadline : 27 Oct 2023

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 90132022

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Acf - Mental Health Study - Consulting Services.

Closing Date: 27 Oct 2023

Type: Consultancy

Themes: Health/Protection and Human Rights

CONSULTING SERVICES

Expressions of Interest

Action Against Hunger (ACF) has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement ("AFD"), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following project Feasibility study and support to project implementation of « Better Health Outcomes for Liberians (BEHOL) ».

The BEHOL project, which will be implemented during 3 years, aims at strengthening the health system in Liberia and is more specifically dedicated to improving health rights for women, girls and other vulnerable populations.

Its main outcomes are the following:

Improved quality of health services at facilities;
Increased individual health literacy and health seeking behaviours;
Improved community participation and ownership of health services;
Strengthened health system at national and sub-national levels.
The tailored and comprehensive package of co-created interventions seeks to fortify the resilience of Liberia-s health system through cultivating leadership and ownership within the MOH at national and sub-national levels and increase the quality of reproductive health, nutrition, maternal, neonatal, and mental health care services in 25 public health facilities while creating an enabling environment through a gender transformative programming.

The Services of the consultant shall consist of a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) study aiming at documenting mental health needs (including mental health prevalence), health seeking behaviors and existing services in Liberia to tailor the project activities accordingly. This study is part of a wider feasibility study to be conducted before the launch of the project. The study also aims at informing future MHPSS interventions of both ACF and AFD.

The mental health and psychosocial support study should start mid-October 2023 and will last 3 months (including both onsite and remote work).

The maximum budget for those Services is 35, 000 USD (Thirty-Five Thousand US Dollars).

Action Against Hunger hereby invites Applicants to show their interest in delivering the Services described above.

This Request for Expressions of Interest is open to: Individual consultants

Eligibility criteria to AFD financing are specified in sub-clause 1.3 of the "Procurement Guidelines for AFD‑Financed Contracts in Foreign Countries", available online on AFD-s website: http://www.afd.fr.

Interested Applicants must provide information evidencing that they are qualified and experienced to perform those Services. For that purpose, documented evidence of recent and similar services shall be submitted.
Determination of the similarity of the experiences will be based on:

The contracts size as mentioned previously (approx. 3-month duration for an estimated amount of $35, 000);
The nature of the Services: a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support study with 2 components:
To assess the cultural representations of mental health disorders, psychological distress, existing community resources and coping mechanisms, formal and informal care pathways in 3 counties (Montserrado, Nimba and Margibi);
To contribute to a national mental health prevalence study led by Medecins Sans Frontières by providing technical support including the review of protocols and data collection tools;
The technical area and expertise: Human and or social sciences, Psychology, Humanitarian psychology, Mental health and Psychosocial support, Community-based Mental health, Health system strengthening, Capacity-building and supervision skills, Research, Needs assessment methodology and analytical skills, Experience in qualitative studies;
The location: experience in low- and middle-income countries, including sub-Saharan Africa.
The Client will also take into account for the evaluation of the applications the following items:

Cultural sensitivity, tactfulness, diplomacy, inter-personal skills ability to collaborate with various local and international MHPSS stakeholders;
Excellent communication and written skills
Experience in developing training curriculum and conducting trainings
Proven experience in management and team supervision;
Fluency in English (oral and written), French is a plus;
Knowledge of and working experience in Liberia would be an asset.
Among the submitted applications, Action Against Hunger will shortlist a maximum of six (6) applicants, to whom the Request for Proposals to carry out the Services shall be sent.

The Expressions of Interest must be submitted to the following address clm@lr-actionagainsthunger.org no later than 27 October 2023 at 5pm GMT. If necessary, you may request any clarifications by sending an email to the same email address before the 20 October 2023 at 5 pm GMT.

How to apply
The Expressions of Interest must be submitted to the following address clm@lr-actionagainsthunger.org no later than 27 October 2023 at 5pm GMT. If necessary, you may request any clarifications by sending an email to the same email address before the 20 October 2023 at 5 pm GMT.

Appendix to The Request for Expressions of Interest
(To be sumitted with the application, signed and unaltered)

Statement of Integrity, Eligibility and Environmental and Social Responsibility

Reference of the bid or proposal ________________________ (the "Contract")

To: Action Against Hunger (the "Contracting Authority")

We recognise and accept that Agence Française de Développement ("AFD") only finances projects of the Contracting Authority subject to its own conditions which are set out in the Financing Agreement which benefits directly or indirectly to the Contracting Authority. As a matter of consequence, no legal relationship exists between AFD and our company, our joint venture or our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants. The Contracting Authority retains exclusive responsibility for the preparation and implementation of the procurement process and performance of the contract. The Contracting Authority means the Purchaser, the Employer, the Client, as the case may be, for the procurement of goods, works, plants, consulting services or non-consulting services.
We hereby certify that neither we nor any other member of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants are in any of the following situations:
2.1 Being bankrupt, wound up or ceasing our activities, having our activities administered by the courts, having entered into receivership, reorganisation or being in any analogous situation arising from any similar procedure;

2.2 Having been:

convicted, within the past five years by a court decision, which has the force of res judicata in the country where the Contract is implemented, of fraud, corruption or of any other offense committed during a procurement process or performance of a contract (in the event of such conviction, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this conviction is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
subject to an administrative sanction within the past five years by the European Union or by the competent authorities of the country where we are constituted, for fraud, corruption or for any other offense committed during a procurement process or performance of a contract (in the event of such sanction, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this sanction is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
convicted, within the past five years by a court decision, which has the force of res judicata, of fraud, corruption or of any other offense committed during the procurement process or performance of an AFD-financed contract;
2.3 Being listed for financial sanctions by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France for the purposes of fight-against-terrorist financing or threat to international peace and security;

2.4 Having been subject within the past five years to a contract termination fully settled against us for significant or persistent failure to comply with our contractual obligations during contract performance, unless this termination was challenged and dispute resolution is still pending or has not confirmed a full settlement against us;

2.5 Not having fulfilled our fiscal obligations regarding payments of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of either the country where we are constituted or the Contracting Authority's country;

2.6 Being subject to an exclusion decision of the World Bank and being listed on the website http://www.worldbank.org/debarr (in the event of such exclusion, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this exclusion is not relevant in the context of this Contract);

2.7 Having created false documents or committed misrepresentation in documentation requested by the Contracting Authority as part of the procurement process of this Contract.

We hereby certify that neither we, nor any of the members of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants are in any of the following situations of conflict of interest:
3.1 Being an affiliate controlled by the Contracting Authority or a shareholder controlling the Contracting Authority, unless the stemming conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;

3.2 Having a business or family relationship with a Contracting Authority's staff involved in the procurement process or the supervision of the resulting Contract, unless the stemming conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;

3.3 Being controlled by or controlling another bidder or consultant

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