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Oxfam in Bangladesh is going to hire a consultant (national) for Development of Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) Bolon Duck Hatchery in Gaibandhan & Chetona Fish Hatchery in Kurigram under impact investment programme-EDP. We invite proposal from interested consultancy individual/firm to undertake this assignment.

Objectives :

The main objective of the Consultancy service is to develop Institutional Standards operational systems and procedures formulated and implement. This assignment will focus on the institutionalization of the enterprise, especially develop the enterprise as an organizational entity, company/firm through developing and incorporating different policy and procedures like; Accounting policy and maintain books of accounts, Financial operation and Management policy, procurement policy, inventory management, sound production & process mapping to ensure quality production, proper HR policy including payroll and recruitment policy, code of conduct, gender policy, legal policies and so on.
The objectives of the assignment are to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in consultation with the relevant/concern government office, sub-department, legal service institutions, enterprises to identified above for facilitating an efficient and effective delivery. This will comprise:

• Development of Standard Operating Procedures by defining and documenting processes, methodologies and respective workflows of the enterprises.
• Review, development and operationalization of relevant internal policies in line with the SOPs for the enterprises

Please refer to the detailed TOR (Click Here) for this assignment.

Proposal submission Instruction:

Please follow all instruction accordingly

The individual/firm must submit the following documents along with Technical & Financial Proposal (including VAT/TAX): The financial proposal should include 15% VAT ONLY. Oxfam will deduct 10% Income Tax at source from the agreed consultancy amount.

For Individual Consultant:

• Maximum 2 page CV of Team Leader highlighting related assignments completed with client  name, contract person and mobile number  ( this person must have fulltime engagement during assignment time)
• Other Team members’ one page short CV highlighting related assignment completed
• TIN Certificate ( PDF soft version) 
• Relevant documents from previous assignment. 
• Two references

For Consultancy Firm:

• Maximum 2 page organization  profile highlighting related assignments completed with client  name, contract person and mobile number
• Lead Consultant’s ( who will lead the assignment) Maximum 2 page CV highlighting related assignment completed, role in of the completed assignment 
• Other Team members’ ( who will involve in the assignment )  one paragraph short CV highlighting related assignment description of the roles and functions of the consultant and his/her associates, and a description of the level of effort of the associates (eg., full-time, part-time, as needed)
• Organization’s/Firm’s Certificate, TIN and VAT registration
• At least two Contracts of 2 organizations that have recently contracted the consultant to develop related documents.
• Documents in favor of the previous relevant documents.
• At least two references name needed to be mentioned

General Instruction for Individual Consultant/ Consultant Firm:

• Do not send any JPEG/Image format.
• Please keep your all files name short and brief
• Please mention the assignment title “Development of SOP-EDP.” in the subject line during application via below mentioned email submit following two separate pdf files –
• Financial proposal
• Technical proposal should include Cover page, Table of content, understand of the assignment (pls. don’t copy & pest), experience in handling similar assignments, a work-plan, methodology, Certificate, TIN and VAT registration to hrbd@oxfam.org.uk

Proposal submission deadline: 25 March 2018

Those who applied earlier do not need to apply again

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