Management of Hydrographic Production Database (Hydrographic Database Expert)
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Location : Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA Application Deadline : 30-Jul-23 (Midnight New York, USA) Time left : 18d 20h 57m Additional Category : Management Type of Contract : Individual Contract Post Level : International Consultant Languages Required :
English Starting Date :
(date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 09-Jul-2023
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Background
This project represents the third phase in a strategic partnership focusing on promoting surveying works and geospatial capabilities, and a myriad of actions and products stemming from these two areas of work. The key objective of this intervention is to maintain provision of advisory services in developing the national capacities for effective geo-spatial surveys, generating the national geo-spatial data infrastructure, generating multi-purpose knowledge from such surveys to efficiently boost national efforts in achieving the key directions provided by 2030 Saudi Vision, as well as promoting the national implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The completion of the previous phase has been instrumental in nurturing the idea of developing the foundation of financial sustainability whereby the General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GASGI, ex GCS) will achieve a high level of efficiency in all its geospatial products. It is through this quality and efficiency that GASGI wishes to expand the availability and marketing of its products and to broaden the public awareness about its products and services. The core areas around which all aspects of this project act upon are: Geodesy, Geospatial Services, Hydrography, Map Production, Institutional Excellence, Establishment of GASGI Academy.
Advisory services are provided towards achievement of financial sustainability and contribution to the national economy. Moreover, advocacy promoted for a wider visibility of GASGI Capacity development will also focus on training in the core areas of land survey; geodetic survey; topographic survey’ and Cadastral survey.
Duties and Responsibilities
Competencies
- Implement the HPD suite of products for S-57 and S-101 ENCs, IENCs, AMLs, Paper Charts to IHO standards, and non-chart Nautical Publications and generic products based on user-defined characteristics.
- Modules of the database derive products from the source data in the same database.
- Product-specific features and customizations can be added without affecting source features.
- In support of the new S-100 data standard, users may now generate S-100 products in HPD.
- Using HPD users can develop acquaintance with the new complicated and multiplicity attribute types, deal with information kinds, assign S-100 representation to features, convert ENC and DNC to S-101 and work with the increasing register of S-100 product specifications.
- General Oracle Database Documentation.
- PL/SQL, Python Programming.
- ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Framework
- CARIS HPD User Manual.
Deliverables/ Outputs
Estimated Duration
Percentage
Review and Approvals Required (Indicate designation of person who will review output and confirm acceptance)
21 working days
16.66%
National Project Coordinator through the office of the Haydrography manager.
21 working days
16.66%
National Project Coordinator through the office of the Haydrography manager.
21 working days
16.66%
National Project Coordinator through the office of the Haydrography manager.
21 working days
16.66%
National Project Coordinator through the office of the Haydrography manager.
21 working days
16.66%
National Project Coordinator through the office of the Haydrography manager.
21 working days
16.7%
National Project Coordinator through the office of the Haydrography manager.
E. Institutional Arrangement
- Identify the specific authority/ies who will directly supervise the Contractor, and to whom he/she will be directly responsible to, reporting to, seeking approval/acceptance of output from (e.g, the Project Manager, or National Project Director, etc.)
- General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information >
- Directorate of Hydrography
- Dept. of Marine Cartography
- Indicate the frequency of progress reporting, if required (e.g., weekly, monthly, fortnightly, etc.), the recommended formats, if any. If any of the reports must be presented, indicate the audience/body and expected location and venue.
- Not required and this function can be managed internally.
- Identify institutions/organizations/individuals with whom the Contractor is expected to liaise/interact/collaborate/meet with in the course of performing the work (e.g., other agencies, project co-implementers, donors, communities, local government units, etc.)
- Manager of Dept. of Marine Cartography as mentioned above in item a.
- Define roles / extent of participation of entities involved in the management/implementation of the contract (e.g., as respondents to survey, resource persons to confer with, approving authority, evaluating performance, etc.)
- Hydrographic Data QA QC Expert, 12 months.
- Specify if the project will be able to provide (or not) any facilities, support personnel, support service, or logistical support, what they will be, and at what stage of the work.
- None will be provided
Duration of the Work
- State expected duration of work / total no. of days/weeks/months of the assignment including effective person-days, if applicable. Emphasize the expected date of full completion, if time is of the essence, indicate the consequences of any delay
- 12 months.
- Indicate target date for the start of work and expected completion date, including conditions to determining both dates, if any
- 01 June 2023
- Explain special reason for urgency, if any, and serious consequence/impact of any form of delay in the completion of the work (e.g., deferment of the succeeding phase to the following year, cancellation of the budget allocation for the project, other potential losses to any party involved, etc.)
- The Hydrographic Directorate has signed a contract with a Surveying Contractor, and will soon begin receiving a significant amount of data on a regular basis in the coming months. This data will be loaded into HDM for processing and nautical chart production. As part of the project deliverables, the contractor will be given access to the data after it has been loaded into HDM to complete certain tasks. It is important to note that any delays may have negative consequences for both the Hydrographic Directorate of GEOSA and the contractor.
G. Duty Station
- Identify the Contractor’s duty station/location for the contract duration, mentioning ALL the possible locations of field works/duty travel in pursuit of other relevant activities, specially where traveling to locations at security Phase I or above will be required.
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- State whether or not the Contractor will be required to report regularly or be present at a certain office during the work, including frequency of reporting, even if intermittent
- The Contractor will be stationed in Riyadh Office and he will be reporting as indicated above in item E a.
Required Skills and Experience
I. Scope of Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments
In order to have a fair basis for comparison, requesting units must clearly state in the TOR that all proposals must be expressed in one of the following pricing options:
When the daily fee option is used, the TOR must clearly specify that:
- The Daily fee must be “all-inclusive(2) ”; and
- an IC Time Sheet must be submitted by the Contractor, duly approved by the Individual Contractor’s supervisor, which shall serve as the basis for the payment of fees.
- Clearly state that the lump sum amount must be “all-inclusive(3) ”;
- Clearly state that the contract price is fixed regardless of changes in the cost components;
- If duty travels are expected, provide the Offerors with the UN’s Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) rates prevailing at the time of sourcing, for the duty station and all other cities indicated in the TOR as part of duty travel destinations. This will give them an indication of the cost of living in a duty station/destination, to aid their determination of the appropriate fees and financial proposal amount, but it does not imply that Offerors are entitled to DSA payment(4) ; and
- Include in its initial payment the actual cost of the IC’s travel to arrive at the designated Duty Station. Such cases therefore imply that the completion of the journey can be considered as one of the deliverables payable upon arrival.
J. Recommended Presentation of Offer
For purposes of generating Offers whose contents are uniformly presented and to facilitate their comparative analysis, it is best to recommend the preferred contents and presentation of the Offer to be submitted, as well as the format/sequencing of their presentation. The following documents may be requested:
K. Criteria for Selection of the Best Offer
Requirements
Criteria
Max 70 points
Education
The HDM Database Expert (Oracle) must have the appropriate qualifications and skills for the GEOSA Project, gained from both academic and work experience.
He needs to have a degree in computer sciences, electrical/electronic engineering, information technology or related disciplines of networks, coding and computer languages in hydrographic data bases along with ten plus (10+) years of related database administrator work experience.
25
Relevant work experience
He needs to have a degree in computer sciences, electrical/electronic engineering, information technology or related disciplines of networks, coding and computer languages in hydrographic data bases along with ten plus (10+) years of related database administrator work experience
In addtion,he is prefered to have some experience hydrographic data processor with vast experience in handling several software applaction for processing Hydrographic data and nautical marine data products.
20
Required skills
He needs to be competent with modern Hydrographic database systems, applications, procedures and processing methods as well as having excellent organisation and communication skills.
15
Required Language(s)
Fluency in written and spoken English
5
Professional Certificates
Proven certificate related to his/her technical skills.
5
Total
70
This section should indicate all the criteria which shall serve as basis for evaluating offers, which may be done in either of the following manner:
Option (a) is ideal for intellectual services where the methodology or approach to the work may differ from one individual to another and directly impacts the quality of the result. Option (b) is ideal for standard type of services where there are not many possible ways of undertaking/performing the work.
If Option (a) is chosen, the key criteria for rating the qualification and methodology must be stated together with their equivalent percentage weight, so that Offerors can craft their offer appropriately.
The following documents shall be required from the applicants:
Instructions for online submissions
Step 1: Please prepare all required documents electronically.
Step 2: Combine all documents in ONE SINGLE FILE (preferably in PDF; however, Word format can also be accepted) and upload to the UNDP Jobs links
Step 3: After that, you will receive an auto-reply from the UNDP jobs if your offer is received successfully.
Interested applicants are advised to carefully review this advertisement and ensure that they meet the requirements and qualifications described.
Given the volume of applications that UNDP receives, only shortlisted offerors will be notified.
UNDP reserves the right to reject any incomplete applications.
Please be informed that we don’t accept applications submitted via email.
Interested Offerors are required to submit an application via UNDP Jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP Jobsite system. Please note that UNDP Jobsite system allows only one uploading of application documents, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your online application submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an email acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows you to upload a maximum of one document.
Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 3 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted on the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain updates related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks .
Interested applicants are advised to carefully review this advertisement and ensure that they meet the requirements and qualifications described.
The interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at UNDP | Procurement Notices - 97880 - Management of Hydrographic Produ for more detailed information about terms of references, instructions for the offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer online.
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks .
(1) The IC policy requires that the approval of the Director of the Regional Bureau must be obtained for daily consulting fees exceeding $1,350. This policy applies regardless of the delegated procurement authority of the Head of the Business Unit.
(2) The term “All inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, travel costs, living allowances, communications, consummables, etc.) that could possibly be incurred by the Contractor are already factored into the final amounts submitted in the proposal
(3) Same as above
(4) Individuals on IC are not UN staff are therefore not entitled to DSAs. All living allowances required to perform the demands of the TOR must be incorporated in the financial proposal, whether the fees are expressed as daily fees or lump sum amount.
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