Hiring of Third-Party Verification Firm for Trigger 1 (Equity): Financial phasing model for more equitable budgetary allocations and to facilitate school-based hiring

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST CONSULTANT’S QUALIFICATIONS BASED SELECTION (CQS) Name of Project Getting Result: Access and Delivery of Quality Education Services - System Transformation in Punjab (GRADES-STP) Project Loan No/Credit No/ Grand Number TF0C9525 Assignment Title Hiring of Consultant Firm for Third-Party Verification (TPV) of Disbursement Condition 1 (DC 1 / Trigger 1): ‘Financial Phasing Model’ and revision of the Non-Salary Budget (NSB) Formula Procurement Plan Ref Number PK-PMU-GSTEP-574686-CS-CQS Country of Delivery Pakistan The Government of the Punjab has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Getting Result: Access and Delivery of Quality Education Services and System Transformation in Punjab (GRADES-STP) Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the following consulting services. The consulting services (“the Services”) include Verification of Disbursement Condition 1 (DC 1 / Trigger 1): ‘Financial Phasing Model’ and revision of the Non-Salary Budget (NSB) Formula. The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment is attached to this REOI . The Programme Monitoring & Implementation Unit (PMIU), GRADES-STP now invites eligible consulting firms (“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 attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 3.14, 3.16 and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers September 2023 (“the Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. The best qualified firm to carry out the services will be selected in accordance with the Consultant’s Qualifications Based Selection (CQS) method set out in the Regulations and based on the following criteria: Sr. No. Criteria 1 Experience: 1.1 Overall experience of five (05) years in undertaking advi