Consultancy Services for the Establishment of Policy Framework for Zanzibar’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure (ZanSDI)

REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF ZANZIBAR

MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND PLANNING

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRM SELECTION)

COUNTRY: UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

NAME OF PROJECT: BOOSTING INCLUSIVE GROWTH FOR ZANZIBAR (BIG-Z)

Loan No: IDA - 69140 –TZ

Assignment Title: Consultancy Services for the Establishment of Policy Framework for Zanzibar’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure (ZanSDI)

Reference No: TZ-POFP-673105-CS-QCBS.

This request for expression of interest follows the General Procurement Notice for the Boosting of Inclusive Growth for Zanzibar Project (BIG-Z) that appeared in the UN Development Business online No. WB-P811333-8 of 27-08-2021.

The United Republic of Tanzania has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Boosting Inclusive Growth for Zanzibar Project (BIG-Z), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The Consultancy Services (“the Services”) includes: undertaking a comprehensive legislative and regulatory audit; institutional mapping and formalization of stakeholder roles; designing a practical hybrid governance model and institutional arrangements for ZanSDI; drafting the National ZanSDI Policy; developing unified operational protocols for metadata, access classification and data quality; preparing standardized Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for inter-agency data sharing; and preparing/facilitating the legislative roadmap and legal instruments required to establish sustainable National Spatial Data Infrastructure governance in Zanzibar. The assignment will also include stakeholder engagement, governance communications, monitoring and evaluation, and structured handover of the project’s secure digital repository.

The duration of the services for conducting this assignment is expected to be thirty-two (32) weeks from the contract commencement date.

The detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) for the assignment can be found upon...