Food Safety Consulting Services Nepal

SELECTION OF CONSULTING FIRMS BY THE WORLD BANK GROUP REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) Electronic Submissions through WBGeProcure RFx Now ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW Assignment Title: Food Safety Consulting Services Nepal Assignment Countries: Nepal ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION The World Bank Group (WBG) is the largest global multilateral development finance institution focused on the private and public sectors in emerging and frontier markets. WBG’s Farms and Agribusiness unit covers the industry that caters to one of the basic human needs: food and nutrition security. Agribusiness plays a critical role in providing food, goods and services to consumers, creating jobs, and contributing to economic growth. WBG has made agribusiness a priority because of its potential for broad development impact and especially strong role in poverty reduction. It combines investment and advisory services to help the sector address higher demand and escalating food prices in an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive way. WBG's commitment in Agribusiness is to prioritize smallholder supply chains to generate increased yields in a sustainable, resilient manner and allow smallholder producers to move up the value chain. This idea is further emphasized WBG-led AgriConnect initiative that prioritizes farming and agribusiness as a driver of jobs and economic growth and aims to improve the lives and opportunities of 300 million farmers. WBG’s Agribusiness Advisory team aims to support private sector clients along strategic themes: crop production, smallholder supply chains, animal protein, food safety, food fortification, and food loss and waste. Through the Global Food Safety, Food Loss Prevention and Food Fortification Platforms, WBG helps agribusiness clients address food safety, food loss, and nutrition challenges in emerging markets, with a focus on development impact, environmental sustainability, and inclusion. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS The World Bank Group invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. for firms; CV and cover letter for individuals). Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Firms may associate to enhance their qualifications unless otherwise stated in the solicitation documents. Where a group of firms associate to submit an EOI, they must indicate which is the lead firm. If shortlisted, the firm identified in the EOI as the lead firm will be invited to the request for proposal (RFP) phase. Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through WBGeProcure RFx Now NOTES Following this invitation for EOI, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding. Only those firms which have been shortlisted will be invited to participate in the RFP phase. No notification or debrief will be provided to firms which have not been shortlisted. If you encounter technical difficulties while uploading documents, please send an e-mail to the Help Desk at corporateprocurement@worldbank.org prior to the submission deadline.