Deadline: 30 April 2015
The United Nations Development Programme to the Palestine People is currently inviting eligible consultancy firms to submit proposals for the programme titled Right to Education in the Gaza Strip to provide Consultancy Services for Designing Infrastructure Facilities of Damaged Schools. The objective of the programme is to support recovery efforts in the educational sector in Gaza through reconstructing and rehabilitating, and building back better what was destroyed in the latest hostilities in Gaza July/August 2014. The project targets governmental and private facilities serving school and higher education in the Gaza Strip and the objective of securing right for education to all.
Location: State of Palestinian – Gaza Strip
Contract Duration: 3 months
Project Components
- Reconstruction and expansion of 4 totally damaged school facilities.
- Rehabilitation of 13 damaged private schools mainly in Gaza city.
- Provision of 131 additional classrooms in 19 partially damaged school facilities throughout the Gaza Strip, including provision of crisis preparedness facilities.
- Rehabilitation of five different types of vocational training centers partially damaged.
- Provision of sustainable electricity supply through installation of Photovoltaic systems for 23 damaged schools.
- Rehabilitation of 21 university buildings in ten universities.
- Large scale and sustainable improvements in the provision of mental and psychosocial support services.
- Increase the access of vocational training and higher education students to employment opportunities abroad through e-work and business outsourcing.
Eligibility Criteria
The applying consultancy firm should at least have the following qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in design of reconstruction and consultancy work in the fields of educational buildings.
- Strong experience in the areas of planning, solar energy systems and water for various types of utilities and through knowledge of the energy and water sector in Gaza strip.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation among actors and computer use skills.
- Familiarization with MoEHE, UNDP and UNICEF strategies, policies in education.
How to Apply?
- Applicants must submit both financial and technical proposals separately either via email, hand delivery or regular post.
- The outer envelopes shall bear the address of UNDP and shall include the Proposer’s name and address, as well as a warning that state “not to be opened before the time and date for proposal opening”.
- Proposers submitting Proposals by mail or by hand shall enclose the original and each copy of the Proposal, in separate sealed envelopes, duly marking each of the envelopes as “Original Proposal” and “Copy of Proposal” as appropriate.
For more information about this programme, please download this PDF UNDP.
