Consulting Services : Implementing Archive System using Sha

Country: West Bank
Grant No.: TF-096770
Assignment Title: Implementing Archive System using SharePoint
Reference No.: 3.2.2.2

The Palestine Liberation Organization, for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has received a
financing in the amount of US$ 43.0 Million from several donors including the World Bank-International Development Association (IDA), AFD, Belgium, Denmark, SIDA, GIZ and KFW towards the cost of the 1st cycle of Municipal Development Program - phase 1 (MDP-I). Additional financial contribution in the amount of US$ 41.0 Million was also committed from the funding partners for the 2nd cycle of the MDP-I, which has started in the beginning of 2012
The Municipal Development and Lending Fund (MDLF), as the delegated implementation agency,
intends to use part of the MDTF grant under window 3.2 to contract an individual consultant to customize SharePoint for documents management and archiving system at MDLF.
The Municipal Development and Lending Fund (MDLF) invites eligible qualified individual consultants to provide information indicating their qualifications, experience and appropriate skills to perform the services.

The Consultant should have the following qualifications:
-The consultant should have advanced academic qualifications in Computer Science, and/or any
related field.
-The consultant must have experience in archiving procedure best practices.
-At least 10 years of practical experience in IT Solutions based on IT best practices.
-The consultant must have conducted similar assignments.
-Must have expert level knowledge in the administration, configuration and customization of SharePoint.
-The Consultant should have strong skills in business requirement gathering.

The main objective of this assignment is to analyze MDLF needs and to customize SharePoint to design and develop Document management and Archiving system for MDLF.

This request for expressions of interest follows the General Procurement Notice for this project that
appeared in Development Business (No. 074594), dated September 4, 2005. The Consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the MDLF Procurement Manual which is based on the World Bank’s “Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers Issued in May 2004 and revised in October 2006.

Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the address below from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
from Sunday to Thursday. Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below by September 11th, 2012.

Municipal Development and Lending Fund
Al-Rishmawi Building, Al-Yasmin Street, SatehMarhaba, Al-Bireh
Palestinian Authority
Tel: +972 (02) 2966610, Fax: +972 (02) 2950685
E-mail: [email protected]; Mr. Jihad Najajreh