Consulting Services for Establishing Sector Specialities in Infrastructure Finance

PTA Bank - Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development BankRequest for Expressions of Interest
Kenya
Project No CZZ 1752
Consulting Services for Establishing Sector Specialities in Infrastructure Finance
PTA Bank (the Bank) has received financing from the French Development Agency (AFD), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the following services: give an overview of national frameworks and market environment for Transport, Energy, Water and ICT sectors in line with the Bank’s diversification strategy.
The services include preparing market studies; providing strategic recommendations, identifying investment opportunities in five priority countries, namely Mozambique, DRC, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.
In addition, PTA Bank would like to reinforce its capacity to assess projects in these sectors.
To this end, the Consultant will also advise on the appraisal and risk assessment of such projects.
PTA Bank now invites consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services.
Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). Consultants may associate and form consortium to enhance their qualifications.
The Expression of Interest shall prove the experience and the suitability of the company for this specific project:

Experience in handling similar studies in similar sectors – minimum 8 years;

Experience in Africa especially in COMESA, SADC and EAC region;

Availability of technical expertise specific to this project;

Relevance of the personnel structure in regard to the tasks expected ;

Form of the application documents: Are they complete, concise and related to the project?The Bank will prepare a short list of six candidates to be pre-selected on the basis of the expressions of interest received and will send a Request for Proposals to perform the services.
Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below by July 31st, 2015 at 1730 hours (Nairobi Time).
The Presidency,
Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development (PTA) Bank
197 Lenana Place
Lenana Rd.,
P.O Box 48596 00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 2712250
Fax: 254 20 2711510
Email: SEevaluationcommittee@ptabank.org