Project Developmet Expert (примерный перевод: Проект развития торговых экспертов) (Турция - Тендер #2562343)

1. Background and Project Context

UNDP Turkey aims to find practical solutions to Turkey"s development challenges and manages projects together with the Turkish Government and other partners to address them. Since 1986 it has implemented over 80 programs across the country. In addition, the UNDP has played a major role in response to crises and disasters in Turkey and the surrounding region.

UNDP Turkey has positioned to contribute through three core areas: 1) Inclusive and Democratic Governance (IDG); 2) Inclusive and Sustainable Growth (ISG); and 3) Climate Change and Environment (CCE); and in addition to these core areas, UNDP Turkey is emphasizing the role of Strategic Partnerships that cut across the entire country program as well as regionally and globally.

The ISG Portfolio is geared towards addressing structural economic problems, such as productivity, innovation, the middle-income trap, multi-dimensional poverty, energy security and regional disparities, as well as challenges with social, environmental and economic repercussions, such as urbanization.

Within the scope of the Economic-Growth and Competitiveness Cluster of the ISG portfolio, UNDP aims to support Turkey in its economic and social development and to enhance competitiveness. Increasing productivity is critical for improvement of the manufacturing capacity, enhancement of competitiveness and acceleration of growth and thus economic and social development.

The development of innovation, and access to and effective use of technology in enterprises emerge as a significant constituent of competitiveness in today’s global economic sphere of rising competition. It is well known that enhanced technological capacity of enterprises does not depend merely on enterprise-level activities. Effective functioning of the elements of entrepreneurial ecosystem, as in developed countries, alleviates problems in this area. In this sense, it is a permanent agenda item that cooperation and collaboration should be improved not only among entrepreneurs, SMEs but also among universities, research centers, chambers, commodity exchanges and industrial and technology development zones.

One of the crucial developmental requirements for Turkey is that her innovation ecosystem should become more competent and, with all actors involved, contribute more effectively to Turkey’s growth performance. Such requirement is always a priority in all major policy documents and highlighted in the relevant plans and programs. Organized Industrial Zones (OIZs) in Turkey have matured to some extent in quantitative terms. It is therefore important in the context of the vision of sustainable and competitive growth that OIZs which serve industries should take up roles in effective use of technology. A review of effectively functioning technology development ecosystems in the world immediately reveals that all actors work in harmony within the framework of a shared vision, legal framework and support mechanisms.

Organized Industrial Zones (OIZs) in Turkey have matured to some extent in quantitative terms. It is therefore important in the context of the vision of sustainable and competitive growth that OIZs which serve industries should take up roles in effective use of technology. A review of effectively functioning technology development ecosystems in the world immediately reveals that all actors work in harmony within the framework of a shared vision, legal framework and support mechanisms.

Developing a Model to Improve Technology Use in OIZs Project is designed to contribute to enhancing competitiveness of Turkey through developing such models that will enable Organized Industrial Zones (OIZs) to assume an active role in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology development. The project has three main components; Baseline Analyses and Model with the purpose to undertake an overall assessment of current situation of all actors within the technology development ecosystem; A Piloting Phase to pilot short term actions with a view to test enabling factors of the proposed model upon the findings of the Component 1 and test some of the findings in order to fine-tune proposed model and the roadmap and Development of Institutional Competence Phase to develop awareness-raising and competence-building programs for the relevant institutions including mainly the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology (MoSIT) and OIZs in line with the requirements of the Technology Development and Use (TD&U) value chain analyses. Public institutions and organizations such as universities, TUBITAK, KOSGEB, Development Agencies etc. included in the national and local technology development ecosystem will be among the key stakeholders where long term respective action lines will be identified within the roadmap. Within the first component of the project, the desk research for the Baseline Analyses were conducted and reported, the institutional interviews were conducted and reported, the selection of the OIZs to conduct the research has been completed. Following the selection of the OIZs, the pilot field study has been conducted in the pilot OIZ and reported.

With a view to contribute to the Development of Institutional Competence component of the project, a project development expert will be mobilized to develop fully fledged Project Proposals in the context of the projects.

2. Scope of Work

The objective of the assignment is to assist the UNDP Turkey Country Office in development of three sets of project documents including Project identification sheet, Project Plan and pre-feasibility report. The proposal formats may either be Operation Identification Sheet, Description of Action and/or Concept Note in line with professional standards to be considered in different financial resources. The OIS Format is shared in Annex 2 for information purposes only. The proposal format to be prepared by the Individual Contractor is not limited to the OIS Format. The project proposals will address the improvement of the institutional capacity of the relevant ministries and other institutions affiliated with the ministries, such as OIZ managements, etc.

The proposals may be considered for different financial sources such as IPA, investment budget or Horizon 2020 etc. The Project Development Expert will be informed on the requested format during the assignment.

The project budget analysis and project budget should be submitted with the proposals.

3. Acronyms and Abbreviations

Unless otherwise noted;

- OIS refers to the Operation Identification Sheet

- DoA refers to the Description of Action

- MoD refers to Ministry of Development

- MoSIT refers to Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology

- OIZ refers to Organized Industrial Zone

- IC refers to Individual Consultant

- UNDP refers to United Nations Development Programme Country Office in Turkey

4. Duties and Responsibilities of the Individual Consultant (IC)

Within the scope of the assignment; UNDP will mobilize a Project Development Expert as an Individual Consultant (IC) to develop three fully fledged Project Proposals.

The Project Development Expert will:

- Review the background documents and project reports to be provided by UNDP, MoD and MoSIT.

- Meet the representatives of UNDP, MoD, MoSIT and other ecosystem actors to collect all necessary data from possible beneficiaries which may be used for fulfilling project proposals in consultation with the Project Team,

- Develop an Inception Report demonstrating the initial findings of the desk review and annotated outline of the Project Proposals,

- Develop and submit the draft version of the three Project Proposals in requested formats for different financial sources through incorporating the financial analysis and project budget breakdown,

- Develop and submit the Project Proposals based on the feedback received from UNDP, MoD and MoSIT,

- Finalize and submit the final versions of the Project Proposals,

- Regularly consulting UNDP at different steps of projects’ development.

The Individual Contractor whom shall be assigned to this assignment cannot apply for any job openings within the context of the Projects developed as a consequence of the Project Proposals which have arisen within the scope of this Terms of Reference in order to avoid a conflict of interest.

5. Expected Deliverables and Output

Under the overall supervision of the Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Portfolio Manager and “Developing a Model to Improve Technology Use in OIZs” Project Manager, the IC is to complete the following tasks:

6. Duration and Place of Work

The assignment will start in December 2017, from the date of signature of an Individual Contract and shall be completed by 30 April 2018.

Duty station of work for the assignment is home-based and may require travels with respect to project needs and the duties and responsibilities of the consultant are stated in Item 4. The cost and terms of reimbursement of any travel authorized by UNDP for Individual Contractors must be negotiated prior to travel. During the travels specified in the ToR or in case of a need for additional travels that were unforeseen in the ToR, the respective travels of the consultant may either be;

• Arranged and covered by UNDP CO from the respective project budget without making any reimbursements to the IC or

• Reimbursed to the consultant upon the submission of the receipts/invoices of the expenses by the consultant and approval of the UNDP. The reimbursement of each cost item subject to following constraints/conditions provided in below table;

• Covered by the combination of the above options

The following guidance on travel compensation is provided per UNDP practice.

7. Minimum Qualification Requirements of the Successful Individual Contractor

8. Payments

The payments shall be realized within 30 days upon submission of each Deliverable listed in below table by the Consultant and approval by UNDP, on the basis of actual number of days invested by the Consultant for the respective deliverable:

*While the Consultant may invest less or more than the estimated number of man/days stated above, the total man/days dedicated to the assignment shall not exceed 40 days.

The maximum total amount to be paid to the Consultant within the scope of this assignment cannot exceed equivalent of 40 man/days. If any of the deliverables mentioned in the Article 5 of the Terms of Reference are not produced and delivered by the expert in due time and to the satisfaction of UNDP, no payment will be made even if the expert has invested man/days to produce and deliver such deliverables.

The consultant shall be paid in US$ if he/she resides in a country different than Turkey. If he/she resides in Turkey, the payment shall be realized in TRY through conversion of the US$ amount by the official UN Operational Rate of Exchange valid on the date of money transfer.

The daily fee to be paid to the Consultant is fixed regardless of changes in the cost components. The daily fee amount should be indicated in gross terms and hence should be inclusive of costs related to tax, social security premium, pension, visa (if needed) etc. UNDP will not make any further clarification on costs related to tax, social security premium, pension, visa etc. It is the applicants’ responsibility to make necessary inquiries on these matters.