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Call for Proposals

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The "Support to SME Development in Armenia" (SMEDA) Project seeks to contract a company/ expert to conduct an analytical study to evaluate the implementation of SME Strategy for Armenia 2016-2018. The assignment starts from 16 July 2018 and lasts until 01 October 2018. The assignment should be implemented in the tandem of International Expert + National expert(s). The analytical study should provide an appropriate information about the following aspects:

Analysis of the SME sector: in this section a profound analysis of the following points should be provided:
- SME Strategy analysis: the Contractor should go through the SME Strategy approved by the Government and the relevant action plan and interview appropriate State officials responsible for the sector to identify:
a) the priorities of the Government related to the sector and expectations for the future development of this field;
b) which activities and strategies were implemented in the past, what is still pending and what actions have been planned by the Government;
c) In addition, in this section contractor should give an appropriate analyses about the Institutions responsible for Implementation of SME Strategy;
- Analysis of development trend in SME sector: the Contractor should identify the SME development trends in Armenia and present an overview of them;
- Analysis of existing challenges for SME sector: the Contractor should identify the main challenges and barriers for the development of economic activities for SMEs. He/ she should analyse those challenges and point out existing strategies, structures, instruments and offers, which support companies and start-ups to overcome challenges. Furthermore, he/ she should briefly review those and made suggestion for improvement of the existing approaches; tools and instruments and suggest new ones;
- Assess Business Environment: the Contractor should analyse the following issues:
a) Barriers to entry and non-competitive behaviour in market;
b) Expensive and time consuming regulatory requirements such as licensing and registration;
c) The legal framework for commercial transactions and resolution of disputes;
d) Government procurement procedures;
e) Infrastructure that opens access to information and markets: transportation, communication infrastructure, etc.;
- Analysis of the access to Finance: the Contractor should address the challenge how much the existing SME development strategy for improving SME access to finance focuses on reducing the risks and transaction costs; strengthening the capacities of financial institutions to serve SMEs, and increasing competitive pressure in financial market;
- Business Development Services: the Contractor shall assess the wide variety of non-financial services such as management trainings, consultancy, marketing and information services; mechanisms to improve business linkages; etc. These services form an important part of the "Market Support Structure" that helps build SME Competitiveness. SMEDA is interested to know - are those services supply-driven, have good quality and finally have sufficient cost control.

Evaluate the existing SME Development strategy:
- Institutional performance, according to the indicators of (1) coverage in terms of numbers of individuals, enterprises and organisations reached by intervention; (2) cost effectiveness, with the objective of providing service at the lowest possible cost;
- Market development, according to the indicators of (1) number, distribution and quality of Service providers, (2) types and quality of instruments available in the market, (3) the structure and degree of competition in the market, (4) the price of services and (5) awareness and willingness to pay for services from SME side;
- Economic impact, according to indicators of (1) the magnitude and durability of the effect of the services on SME performance (sale, exports, productivity, etc.) and (2) the developmental impact of the interventions at a social or economic level.
For more details of tasks, deliverable and reporting please also see the Terms of Reference which can be downloaded under the link below.

Recommendations: in this section the Contractor should highlight the most important findings and challenging issues in the field and should present recommendations how to address them in the new SME Development Strategy.

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- Strong proven expertise and profound knowledge in the area of assignment;
- Proficiency in English language (written and spoken).

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Those who are interested in performing this work, are welcome to submit a bid to the GIZ Country office/ Reception in accordance with the GIZ bidding conditions.
Labelling of offer: the bid, comprising the technical offer and the price offer, must be clearly marked as such and submitted as a package containing two envelopes. The price offer must always be separate from the technical offer and placed in a separate envelope. Please see the Call for Proposals document for the detailed description of the application procedure.

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Terms of References Call for Proposals (Application and evaluation procedure) Technical Evaluation Grid