COMPETITION TYPE: 
RFP
DETAIL DESCRIPTION: 
The Public Administration Reform (PAR) Strategy of Armenia, adopted in 2022, marks a significant milestone in the country's post-independence era, focusing on a comprehensive agenda for modernizing the government system. This reform effort acknowledges the challenges faced before and during the 2020 crisis and aims to address deep-rooted problems within the government machinery. The key problems that are supposed to be solved with the new strategy are related to policy-making practices, services delivered to the citizens, human capacities, and institutional arrangements. Aligned with the whole-of-government paradigm, the strategy envisions a future state characterized by human-centric, sustainable, responsible, dynamic, innovative, and optimal features.
This solicitation aims to engage a local or international firm to support the Economic Foundations and the Government of Armenia (GOAM) in implementing public administration reform strategy Pillar III: Institutional Modernization. The goal is to enhance the efficiency of the state management system by developing methodological tools and legal regulations, including a unified methodology for functional analysis and organizational categorization of state bodies responsible for economic governance. The firm will conduct the functional analysis, categorize state bodies including office of the Prime Minister, and lead a comprehensive review and reorganization of state system bodies including office of the Prime Minister to remove redundant functions, functions duplications and overlaps, define missing functions, optimize and automate procedures, including assessment and forecasting of service/maintenance costs of state administration system bodies (share in total state budget costs). The assessment will be based on international best practices, involving an inventory and mapping of the current system, functional reviews to analyze procedures, identify issues, and develop comprehensive procedures. These tasks aim to enhance the public administration system in line with international standards.
REQUIREMENTS: 
- Inception report, including a detailed implementation plan, including objectives and scope and approach of assessment, timeline and resources, discussed and agreed with Economic Foundations and USAID;
- Comprehensive methodology for functional and institutional assessment review, including tools for self-assessment and modernization and a unified methodology for determining the organizational type;
- Structural and functional reengineering recommendations, including the examples of the best international practice;
- Complete inventory and mapping of current public administration system, including digital register creation;
- Finalized unified typology for classifying public administration bodies;
- Comprehensive report on functional and institutional analysis, including identified issues, and recommendations for improving the structure and functionality of public administration bodies;
- Training program and materials for personnel responsible for functional and structural analysis.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES: 
All interested and qualified candidates should submit an application in accordance with the RFP requirements in the attached file to: ***********@************.*** no later than September 10, 2024, with the title of the tender in the subject line.
Please clearly mention in your application letter that you learned of this announcement through Career Center and mention the URL of its website - www.careercenter.am. Thanks.
ATTACHMENTS:
RFP - RFP 17 _ PAR_Pillar 3_Functional Assessment.docx
ABOUT COMPANY: 
Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA), an international development organization, specializes in designing sustainable, market led agricultural initiatives. We build strong local and global partnerships, incorporate innovative approaches into our programs, and foster inclusive development to offer enhanced opportunities to under-served groups. Since 1985, CNFA has managed more than $600 million in donor funded agriculture development programs and has worked in 46 countries across the world in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Central Asia.