Provision of Intellectual Services to Support the Implementation of Ongoing and Future... Tender

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Country : Armenia

Summary : Provision of Intellectual Services to Support the Implementation of Ongoing and Future Projects Implemented

Deadline : 31 Jul 2023

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 84482126

Document Ref. No. : 2023/AO/57

Competition : ICB

Financier : Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Tenders are invited for Provision of Intellectual Services to Support the Implementation of Ongoing and Future Projects Implemented by The ECCD.

Lot 1 - Anti-corruption and good governance, including any or all of the following areas:
1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks;
2. Legislative and regulatory frameworks;
3. Asset declarations and illicit enrichment;
4. Conflict of interest, integrity, ethics and codes of conduct;
5. Corruption-proofing of legislation;
6. Corruption risk assessment;
7. Whistleblower protection;
8. Lobbying;
9. Public procurement;
10. Political party and electoral campaign financing;
11. Administrative anti-corruption inquiries and inspections;
12. Transparency and access to information;
13. Anti-corruption measures and integrity in the private sector;
14. Simplification of administrative procedures and lean management of administration;
15. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of corruption offences;
16. International cooperation and exchange of information;
17. Statistics and case-tracking systems;
18. Judicial and prosecutorial independence, integrity and specialisation;
19. State audit and corruption control;
20. Preventing corruption in specific economic sectors (education, healthcare, sport, etc.);
21. Preventing corruption and promoting integrity in state-owned enterprises;
22. Preventing corruption and promoting integrity in sub-national authorities and local government;
23. Design and use of IT systems;
24. Optimisation and digitalisation of anti-corruption reporting and monitoring processes.

Lot 2
- Anti
-money laundering (AML), including any or all of the following areas:
1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks;
2. Legislative and regulatory frameworks;
3. National and sectoral risk assessments;
4. Operational and strategic analysis by financial intelligence units and use of open source intelligence;
5. Regulation and risk
-based supervision of financial institutions;
6. Regulation and risk
-based supervision of non
-financial businesses and professions;
7. Risk profiling of supervised entities;
8. Compliance and internal controls in the private sector;
9. Customs enforcement, cross
-border risks and controls of cash and cross
-border financial flows;
10. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of ML offences;
11. International cooperation and information exchange;
12. Design and use of IT systems for risk assessment, financial intelligence and financial investigation purposes;
13. Design and use of IT systems for supervisory purposes (risk-based AML/CFT supervision);
14. Design and use of IT systems for compliance purposes (private sector);
15. EU standards and EU internal market regulation for AML/CFT purposes;
16. Application of data protection requirements related to AML/CFT measures;
17. Auditing the AML/CFT internal control systems;
18. Transparency of beneficial ownership;
19. Set up and use of central registers for AML/CFT purposes;
20. Assessment and monitoring of the effectiveness of application of AML/CFT
measures in a jurisdiction;
21. Developing ML/TF typologies.

Lot 3
- ML/FT risks and vulnerabilities associated with new technologies, including any or all of the following areas:
1. Assessment of risks associated with new financial technologies and payment services;
2. Regulation and supervision of new financial technologies, use of supervisory technologies, including the application of relevant EU standards;
3. Remote application of customer due diligence (CDD);
4. Use of digital identity in the CDD process;
5. Outsourced AML/CFT compliance;
6. Virtual assets service providers and application of related AML/CFT measures;
7. Development and use of databases and registers for AML/CFT compliance purposes and interconnectivity;
8. Application of data analytics for AML/CFT purposes;
9. Application of related data protection rules;
10. Support to legislative, institutional, policy, structural and administrative measures associated with digital transformation in the AML/CFT area;
11. Support to digital detection, analysis and investigative capacities of ML/TF.

Lot 4
- Asset recovery and asset management, including any or
all of the following areas:
1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks;
2. Legislative and regulatory frameworks;
3. Asset tracing and financial investigations;
4. Asset freezing, seizure and confiscation;
5. Asset management and asset valuation;
6. International cooperation to seize and recover assets;
7. International sharing of assets;
8. International exchange of information for tax purposes, investigation and analysis of tax fraud and related offences and assessment of effectiveness of preventive and repressive system;
9. IT design and support for asset management and asset recovery systems.

Lot 5
- Combating organised crime, including any or all of the
following areas:
1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks;
2. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of organised crime;
3. Organised crime threat assessments;
4. Criminal intelligence methodologies and practices

Lot 6
- Mutual legal assistance (MLA) and other forms of cooperation in Criminal and Administrative Matters, including any or all of the following areas:
1. Informal international cooperation in criminal matters, with an emphasis on combating economic crime;
2. Exchange of information in criminal cases;
3. Transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes;
4. Legislative and procedural frameworks;
5. Institutional procedures and effectiveness;
6. International cooperation using MLA;
7. Formulation and execution of MLA requests;
8. Extradition;
9. MLA statistics and case tracking systems.

Lot 7 - Combating terrorism, proliferation and their financing, including any or all of the following areas:
1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks;
2. Risk and threat assessments;
3. Preventive measures against terrorism;
4. Preventive measures against financing of terrorism;
5. Targeted financial sanctions, including the EU sanctions regime;
6. Financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;
7. Assessment of terrorist financing (FT) risks associated with the non-profit sector and application of related preventive measures;
8. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of terrorism and/or the financing of terrorism;
9. EU standards and EU internal market application of measures against FT.

The deadline for submission of applications is 31 July 2023.

Documents

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