SELECTION OF CONSULTING FIRMS BY THE WORLD BANK GROUP
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Assignment Title: Samoa: Strengthening Cybersecurity Capabilities
Assignment Countries:
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
The assignment's objective is to support GoS efforts to strengthen the institutional and operational capacity of cybersecurity as a critical foundation for safeguarding the country's digital infrastructure.
To achieve this objective, the assignment will:
(i)Provide supportfor the development of final proposed draft of Samoa’s National CybersecurityStrategy (NCS).
(ii)Proposean enhanced operating model for SamCERT.
To carry out this assignment, the World Bank is seeking the services of a qualified consultant to:
(i)Reviewthe existing NCS and evaluate its outcomes, identify Samoa’s strategicpriorities in cybersecurity, recommend the required revisions for the NCS, and adviseon a consolidated proposed draft strategy.
(ii) Examine a potential operating model forSamCERT, including the provision of incident response and online safetyservices.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED DETAILED TOR.
FUNDING SOURCE
The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:
- BB: Bank Budget
- TF0C4100: DDP
ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility restrictions apply:
- [Please type list of restrictions]
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.
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