Software and IT system Support

Request for Expressions of Interest (REoI) Country: Lebanon Project: Green Agri-Food Transformation for Economic Recovery (GATE) Project Implementing Agency: Kafalat SAL Assignment Title:Information System and LMS officer (Sub-component 1.2) Reference No.: LB-KAFALAT-513788-CS-INDV I. Project Background The Council for Development and Reconstruction, as a representative of the Republic of Lebanon (The Borrower), will implement the Green, Agri-food Transformation for Economic Recovery project (“GATE” or “Project”), funded by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The total project cost is US$200 million and the project closing date is December 2028. Kafalat SAL will implement Subcomponent 1.2 under a Subsidiary Agreement with CDR and has established a Project Management Unit (PMU) responsible for the overall management of the sub-component. Kafalat will be extending direct loans to SMEs operating the Lebanese agri-food and agro-tourism sector including procurement and will be responsible for the financial management, E&S safeguards, monitoring and evaluation, and oversight of the SME loan program. Kafalat SAL is a Lebanese financial institution historically mandated to provide loan guarantees to SMEs through commercial banks. Under Subcomponent 1.2 of the GATE Project, Kafalat has been mandated, for the first time, to provide direct lending to eligible SMEs in the agri-food and agritourism sectors, with a total allocation of USD 47.6 million. Operating from a single office in Beirut with no branch network, this represents a fundamental operational transformation requiring the development of entirely new lending instruments, procedures, and supporting systems. A key pillar of this operational transformation is the procurement, implementation, and ongoing management of a Loan Management System (LMS), a dedicated Information System to automate the end-to-end SME lending operations of the PMU, covering loan origination, credit assessment, appro