Fiscal Governance and Institutions Project (Нигерия - Тендер #52621968)

• Project ID

P163540

• Project Title

Fiscal Governance and Institutions Project

• Country

Nigeria

• Notice No

OP00281735

• Notice Type

Request for Expression of Interest

• Notice Status

Published

• Borrower Bid Reference

NG-BPP-130021-CS-INDV

• Procurement Method

Individual Consultant Selection

• Language of Notice

English

• Submission Deadline Date/Time

Mar 28, 2024 10:15

• Published Date

Mar 28, 2024

• CONTACT INFORMATION
• Organization/Department

Bureau of Public Procurement

• Name

Mamman Ahmadu

• Address

Bureau of Public Procurement 11 Sulieman Barau Crescent Asokoro Abuja

• City

• Province/State

Nigeria

• Postal Code

• Country

Nigeria

• Phone

08067007700

• Email

mamman.ahmadu@gmail.com

• Website

LETTER OF INVITATION

FISCAL GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS PROJECT (FGIP) – P163540

Name of Assignment: SELECTION OF INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT AS QUALITY ASSURANCE/SECURITY EXPERT

Reference No.: NG-BPP-130021-CS-INDV

Credit No.: IDA 6288

Country: Nigeria

Date: 2nd March, 2021

Dear Mr. /Ms.:

The Federal Government of Nigeria has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of Fiscal Governance and Institutions Project (FGIP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments for Consultancy for Quality Assurance and Security under the contract for the Design, Development/Customization, Supply, Installation and Maintenance of an Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) System.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include the following as shown below and the duration of the contract shall be for three (3) years and is expected to commence in April, 2021. The Consultant is expected to be available in the Bureau’s Abuja office full time. Activities to be performed by the Quality Assurance/Security Expert include but are not limited to the following:

i. Create a Quality Assurance Strategy and Plan associated with the Statement of Work.

ii. Create an end-to-end test plan; executing the plan and managing all activities in the plan to ensure that all the objectives are met and that the system works as expected. The system should be tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability and compatibility.

iii. Ensure that individual modules are checked and that the inter operativity of the modules in performing the outlined tasks are satisfactorily done. He/she will also ensure that integration of the eGP with other government systems, such as GIFMIS, Budget system, Corporate Affairs Commission,etc are satisfactorily carried out.

iv. Develop Guidelines for assuring Quality and Security of the e-Procurement system to provide reasonable assurance to all critical stakeholders that the system is secure, transparent, auditable and complies with the Public Procurement Act and other IT regulations in Nigeria.

Specifically, the consultant will provide quality assurance for the following:

• Compliance of hardware and accessories delivered by the developer in conformity with the issued technical specifications
• Hardware and Software/application installations and related issues including system configuration and fine tuning, testing and implementation.
• System interface and interoperability with legacy systems
• Adequacy of various data analyses produced using the eGP.
• Adequacy and effectiveness of end users’ training,
• Satisfactory completion of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Efficiency and reliability of the new business processes at the pilot MDAs.
• System controls supporting the internal control environment (i.e. Access and security controls, segregation of duties, organization controls, arithmetic controls, personnel, authorization, management, and audit trails) are well defined and performs according to specified business processes.
• The System support arrangements, backup and business continuity plans including but not limited to reliability of connectivity and power supply as well as the reliability of data replication Technology in use at the disaster recovery centre are well in place.
• The system documentation including, Configuration manuals, User/procedure manuals are available and complete.
• Software security including but not limited to cloud security.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment is attached to this Invitation Letter.

The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) now invites eligible Individual Consultants (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are as follows:

• The Individual Consultant must have BSc. in any of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Security, Cyber Security or any other relevant discipline with recognized professional certificates
• Have at least ten (10) years progressive working experience in software quality assurance and conducting all necessary testing before, during and after system deployment.
• Must have specific experience in two (2) projects of similar scope and complexity as this assignment. Specifically, s/he must possess the following:
• Software quality inspection, auditing and various types of testing experience
• Industry-specific experience
• Knowledge of tools, concepts and methodologies of Quality Assurance
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements in ICT sector in Nigeria
• Experience in load and stress testing
• Experience in manual and automated testing using different testing tools
• Hands-on experience on performing relevant security testing to detect OWASP top ten vulnerabilities in web application using tools like Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, sqlmap, etc
• Experience in Cloud Infrastructure and service Audit and testing
• Proven experience in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of custom developed web application, data center intrusion, system auditing, and other security issues
• Security certification such as CEH/ CLPTP, CISM, CISSP or equivalent.
• Knowledge of various vulnerability assessment tools
• Experience in IP address, firewall, proxy server, DNS, routing protocol, risk assessment etc.
• Proven knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, XML, SQL, .NET and/or .PHP;
• Experience in development Server Solutions, procurement of hardware and software licenses;
• Sound knowledge and skills of data communications and software integration;

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Selection of Individual Consultant method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Local Time),

Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP)

11, Suleiman Barau Crescent, Aso-Villa, Asokoro, Abuja-FCT, Nigeria

Contact: Mr. Aliyu Edogi Aliyu (FGIP Project Officer)

Email: aliyu.aliyu@bpp.gov.ng, with copy to aliyu_ea@hotmail.com and nigeriegpproject@gmail.com,

Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address above (in person, or by mail,or by e-mail) by 23rd March, 2021 at 11:00am (Nigeria Local Time).

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