The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has received a credit in the amount of US$60 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Financial Sector Modernization and Information Management System Projects (FSMIMS) to support the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), the Credit Information Center (CIC) and the Deposit Insurance of Vietnam (DIV) to improve the quality in delivering their main services in accordance with relevant international standards in the banking sector. DIV has received the amount of USD 14 million as a part of the above mentioned Credit and intends to apply a part of the proceeds for consultant services required for functional strengthening, procurement and implementation support.
The consultant services for DIV include: i) Assist the DIV to re-engineer business processes to strengthen DIV’s capacity to analyze and forecast risks of each insured institution as well as of the whole insured institution system; improving DIV’s internal resource planning and management and provide systematic training to DIV’ management and staff. ii) Advise DIV in designing ICT system, procurement and implementation support of the ICT package in compliance with the procurement guidelines and regulations of the World Bank. The estimated level of effort required for the services is 15 staff-months for international consultants over a period of 48 calendar months starting approximately in mid 2010.
DIV invites eligible 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, and availability of appropriate skills among staff). Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications. In this case, consultants should indicate in their Expression of Interest whether they will associate in the form of joint venture or sub-consultancy arrangement. It is noted that in case of the joint venture, all members of the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for execution of the contract and one member shall be appointed to represent the joint venture.
A consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) procedures set out in World Bank’s “Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers” dated May 2004 and revised in October 2006.
Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8AM to 4PM (Vietnam’s time), Monday to Friday.
Expressions of Interest must be delivered to the address below on or before Jan 20, 2010 via post or email.
Contact information:
Deposit Insurance of Vietnam
The FSMIMS Project Implementation Unit (PIU)
Attn: Mr. Nguyen Linh Nam, Executive Deputy Director of PIU
18th floor, Vincom Tower B, 191 Ba Trieu Street, Ha Noi, Vietnam
Tel: +84 (4) 39743187 (Direct line); Fax: + 84 (4) 39742866
Email: fsmims@div.gov.vn, nguyen-linh.nam@div.gov.vn