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: Legal Advisory Services for Health Products Industrial Complex Project (RJ/Brazil)
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has been engaged to act as lead transaction advisor for the structuring and implementation of a public-private partnership (PPP) for a Health Products Industrial Complex in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—a strategic infrastructure project being developed by entities controlled by the Brazilian Federal Government. The Complex aims to significantly expand Brazil’s capacity to produce vaccines and biopharmaceuticals, strengthen preparedness for future health emergencies, and reduce reliance on imported health products. This initiative is aligned with the national Health Economic-Industrial Complex strategy (Complexo Econômico-Industrial da Saúde – CEIS) and Brazil’s broader industrial and health sovereignty agenda.
To support this mandate, IFC is seeking to hire a qualified legal advisory firm to provide comprehensive legal support throughout the PPP structuring process. The selected firm will be responsible for:
(i) conducting a legal and regulatory review of the applicable legal and institutional framework for the project and PPP model;
(ii) advising on the design of the bidding process and the structure of the PPP agreement, including risk allocation, payment mechanisms, and backstop guarantee instruments;
(iii) drafting all relevant legal documentation, including the PPP contract, public consultation and hearing materials, and bidding documents; and
(iv) providing legal support throughout the structuring process—including during public consultation, market sounding, and bidding phases— responding to legal queries, preparing legal/technical inputs and materials, and supporting the bidding process through to commercial closing.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility restrictions apply:
- Please refer to the attached document.
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). 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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