ICT Technical Consultant

Job Description

Country: Cambodia Project: PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM PROGRAM (PFMRP) Financing: World Bank Abstract: INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) TECHNICAL CONSULTANT (INTERNATIONAL) Sector: Consultants Loan/Credit Number: TF054547, Grant No. H241-KH, Project ID No. P087945 Contract/Bid Number: Expression of interest, Contract No. MEF-RCS-ICT Deadline: 20 February 2008

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) through the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has received a Multi-Donor Trust Fund Grant No. TF054547 and Grant No. H241-KH from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the costs of the Public Financial Management Reform Program (PFMRP) and Public Financial Management and Accountability Project (PFMAP).

The Royal Government of Cambodia represented by the Ministry of Economy and Finance has appointed Crown Agents as Procurement Agents for selected World Bank funded projects in Cambodia.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance, Reform Committee Secretariat (RCS) as the implementing agency for PFMRP and PFMAP intends to use part of the proceeds of the grants for the services of Technical ICT Consultant (International). The Consultant will support the MEF Information Communication Technology (ICT) Unit in developing turnkey solution and standards / strategy requirements, which will include the FMIS hardware and database, operating system, communications software and the applications software to connect to the ICT network. The assignment is expected to have total inputs of 24 weeks with up to six visits.

The successful Individual Consultant shall have the following qualifications and experience:

1. A formal professional qualification in Information Technology and related fields at post-graduate level
2. Substantial experience in developing large scale ICT infrastructures
3. Practical experiences in advising the creation and development of ICT infrastructure in public financial management reform programs in other countries
4. Proven ability to work with local counterparts in a constructive way to help developing countries take action in a strategic context
5. Strong ability to communicate and translate complex ideas in a way that can be absorbed by national staff with little background in modern ICT and public financial management techniques

Acting on behalf of the Public Financial Management Reform Program and the Public Financial Management and Accountability Project, Crown Agents invites expressions of interest from qualified and experienced international individual consultants to undertake the above-mentioned services. The consultant shall be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in Section V, Selection of Individual Consultants under the World Bank?s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, published in May 2004, revised in October 2006.

Interested individual consultants in submitting their expressions of interest must provide copy of their updated curriculum vitae, indicating personal and technical skills, academic qualifications, experience in similar assignments, experience in Cambodia and/or other developing countries along with the names of at least three referees with contact information (e-mail address, telephone or fax numbers).

Consultants may obtain copies of the detailed Terms of Reference (in English) for the assignment from the address below during office hours from 0830 to 1200 hours and 1400 to 1730 hours.

Expressions of interest must be submitted to the address below on or before 20 February 2008 before 17 h 30 hours.

Contact: The CROWN AGENTS Project Office. Ministry of Economy and Finance, First Floor (New Building). Street 92, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel: (855-23) 430-278. E-mail: