SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE (SPN)

Request for Proposal

Training and Mentoring for Procurement Skills Training Stream

PM-A-023


Country: Indonesia
City/Locality: Jakarta
Project: Procurement Modernization
Contract No.: PM-A-023
Submission Deadline: June 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m.
Funding Agency: Millennium Challenge Corporation
Buyer: Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia (MCA-Indonesia)


1. The Request for Proposal (RFP) is open to all eligible entities or persons (Consultants)
who wish to respond. Consultants may only associate with each other in the form of a
joint venture or in a sub-consultancy agreement to complement their respective areas of
expertise to enhance their capacity to successfully carry out the assignment and so long as
any association is otherwise formed in accordance with the terms of the RFP.

2. A Consultant will be selected under Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS)
procurement method, the evaluation procedure for which is described in sections of the
RFP in accordance with MCC Program Procurement Guidelines which are provided on
the MCC website www.mcc.gov .


3. Contact Information
MCA-Indonesia, Procurement Agent
Menteng Raya-21 Building, 6
th
Floor
Jl. Menteng Raya No. 21
Jakarta 10340
Indonesia
Email address: procurement.agent@mca-indonesia.go.id


4. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of the Republic of
Indonesia (the Government) have entered into a Compact for Millennium Challenge Account
(MCA) assistance to help facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth in Indonesia
(the Compact) in the amount of US$ 600,000,000 (MCC Funding). The Government, acting
through the Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia (MCA-Indonesia), intends to apply a
portion of the funds to eligible payments under the contract for which this Request for
Consultants Qualifications is issued. Payment by MCC will be made only at the request of
MCA-Indonesia and upon approval by MCC, and will be subject, in all respects, to the terms and
conditions of the Compact, including restrictions on the use of MCC Funding and conditions to
the disbursements.

The Procurement Modernization Project:

Procurement Professionalization Activity: Improving the procurement function by
increasing the capacity and professionalization of the procurement function:

o Institutional Structure and Professionalization of PSUs Sub-Activity
o Procurement Management Information System Sub-Activity

Policy and Procedure Development Activity: Supporting the development of
procurement policies and procedures which would improve procurement outcomes,
the rate and success of public private partnership (PPPs) and environmental
sustainability:

o Competitive Tendering for PPs Sub-Activity
o Procedures for Sustainable Procurement Sub-Activity

The services under this procurement fall under the Procurement Professionalization
Activity of Procurement Modernization Project.


An external consultancy firm (Consultant) is required to participate in the procurement
skills training stream to provide training and mentoring to several hundred trainees with
an escalation option to add additional trainees (Phase 2). The Consultant shall be solely
responsible for curriculum, recruitment, training and mentoring of trainers and mentors,
delivery of training and mentoring, and ongoing management of the skills training and
mentoring program for procurement staff, other public service representatives and to a
limited extent potential suppliers and contractors
.
The overall objective of the program is to ensure a sustainable training program is
established within appropriate training institutions and transitioned across to ensure
procurement training is delivered ongoing into the future.



5. Please contact Procurement Agent at procurement.agent@mca-indonesia.go.id to receive a copy
of the complete RFP including the Letter of Invitation and the TOR.

6. Clarifications may be requested by e-mail not later than 21 days before the deadline for
submission of the Proposals, so that responses can be issued to all Consultants not later than 14
days prior to the deadline for submission of Proposals.

7. A pre-proposal meeting will be held on May 16, 2014 at 10.00 am at MCA-Indonesias Office
Address as specified in the RFP, Section 2, Proposal Data Sheet, ITC 1.4.

8. Consultant submissions should make reference to the RFP and must be received no later than
June 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m local time at the address indicated in Article 3 above.