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Technical Assistance to the Development of Local Infrastructure through an open call for municipal infrastructure proposals - Macedonia

F.Y.R.O.M.

European Commission

Ministry of Local Self Government

The project objective is to support the local infrastructure for social and economic cohesion through creation of a short-list of at least 30 viable and sustainable local infrastructure project proposals within the major municipal competencies decentralised since 1st July 2005. The Contractor will conduct a competitive call for municipal proposals and manage it until establishing the short- list of projects. Specifically, the Contractor shall carry out the following activities: - Analysis of lessons learned from the previous calls for municipal proposals (for similar programmes under CARDS) and recommendations for improvement of efficiency and sustainability of the programme - Preparation of proposals’ eligibility and selection criteria - Preparation of the application package for municipalities - Organisation of information seminars - Provide expertise and support in the evaluation of local infrastructure project proposals and creation of a short-list of at least 30 projects (worth € 0.5 million each) The experts’ team will work under the direct supervision of, and report to the Delegation of the European Commission (Contracting Authority) and inform the final beneficiary – Ministry of Local Self Government as well as the Secretariat for European Affairs on the progress of the assignment. The geographical area to be covered is the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Travel throughout the country is expected in order to organise information seminars as well as to do field assessment of selected proposals. A Steering Committee will be established to oversee the assignment and (ex-ante) approve all project documents (guidelines, application forms, evaluation grid, instructions to the applicants, etc.) and reports.

Start date: 2008-06-01

End date: 2009-04-30