Consultancy Services for the Comprehensive Institutional Diagnostic, Organizational Restructuring, and Strategic Plan Development for the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), Nigeria.

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)   Federal Republic of Nigeria Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: P160865 Assignment Title: Consultancy Services for the Comprehensive Institutional Diagnostic, Organizational Restructuring, and Strategic Plan Development for the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), Nigeria. Reference No . (as per Procurement Plan): NG-DBN-563824-CS-QCBS Development Bank of Nigeria has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. The consulting services (“the Services”) will equip and strengthen the BOA with an independent, evidence-based basis for its restructuring and recapitalizing, and with a credible new strategy for its future. Specific objectives of the assignment are: Establish the Bank’s true financial position through an independent asset quality review, yielding a verified opening balance sheet and a quantified provisioning gap; Design the balance-sheet restructuring, including the carve-out of legacy non-performing assets, the disposal or monetization of non-core assets, and the restructuring or transfer of legacy liabilities; Size and structure the recapitalization against the verified, cleaned balance sheet; Design governance, credit-process, systems and legal/regulatory reforms consistent with the applicable prudential and corporate-governance framework and insulating the Bank from political interference; Design the ownership restructuring, including dilution of the current shareholders and the introduction of private and cooperative participation in line with the reform design and tested against prospective investor requirements; and Develop a new corporate strategy and business plan, grounded in a market and financing-gap analysis, an explicit delivery-model choice, and international...