Develop and execute of a Digital Marketing and Public Relations Promotional Plan aimed at building the awareness of the Jamaica sauces & spices Brand, Halfway Tree, in the United States market; and Identify and develop appropriate online marketplace.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include:

a. Assist cluster companies in the design and execution of a digital marketing & PR promotion plan aimed at introducing HWT to the US market, and, over time, build brand awareness, increase customer loyalty and build brand equity.

b. Develop the cluster companies’ eCommerce online marketplace capacity. More specifically, the consultant will identify, select, and develop appropriate existing online marketplace eCommerce channels for the sale of the HWT line of products.

a) Digital Marketing & Public Relations

1. Consult with cluster partners to better understand the goalfor each channel- clarify the purpose of the plan.

2. Review existing digital marketing assets to assess usefulness. These include, create digital marketing assets for the cluster, Catiki Foods Ltd, to include: Website and Online Catalogue Branded assets (logos, icons, acronyms, etc.) Online products or tools (interactive content, etc.), Social media pages, Google Business, Video content (video ads, product demos, etc.), Images (infographics, product shots, company photos, etc. to be placed on website and social media platforms)

3. These assets must be consistent with the brand for use in various promotional channels identified under this consultancy.

4. Prepare manual with guidance on how each of these are to be maintained and updated.

5. Create a Logo and Brand Guide for Catiki Foods Ltd.

6. Create a central theme, unique selling proposition, mission statement, and key messages to be used across all promotional channels. Linking the logo and color to all aspects of a campaign, including a message to support this theme.

7. Identify and clarify with the cluster primary and secondary target audiences (demographic and psychographic).

8. Conduct at least one in-store promotion.

9. Develop and implement a workable digital marketing & PR promotional plan that will appeal to the target audiences. At a minimum, this plan should include digital marketing strategies such as: Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising

- Paid search advertising

- Search engine optimization (SEO)

- Keyword strategy

- Social media marketing (to include paid and unpaid)

- Conversation rate optimization (CRO)

- Content marketing

- Email and affiliate marketing

- The use of appropriately identified influencers; etc.

10. Develop newsletter template, create and publish first 2 newsletters.

11. Create a customer loyalty program plan

Acquisition of 850 units of video cameras for videoconferencing, training through video tutorials, virtual workshop, user manuals, diptychs and distribution service.

Key qualification requirements include, among others:

a. Financial Capacity: The Bidder shall provide documented evidence of its compliance with the following financial requirements: Documentation evidencing its updated statement of net worth, signed by CPN and certified by the Professional Council of Economic Sciences in order to evaluate solvency at the time of submitting its bid. For the verification of the above financial requirement, in the event that the bid is submitted by a consortium, the same information requested in the preceding paragraph shall be considered for each of the partners.

b. Experience and Technical Capacity: The Bidder shall provide documented evidence of its compliance with the following experience requirements: In order to prove experience in the commercialization of the products offered, the Bidder shall submit documentation showing that the firm has at least 3 (three) years in the market of the item of the good offered. In addition, the Bidder must provide documented evidence of having sold at least 40% of the quantities of the goods requested. Both of these requirements may be demonstrated by submitting simple copies of: Purchase Orders, contracts, invoices, etc. For Joint Venture, Consortium or Association, this requirement may be fulfilled through the sums of the background of its members.

c. The Offeror shall provide documented evidence demonstrating compliance of the Goods being offered with the following utilization requirements: The bidder shall submit an Affidavit, guaranteeing that the Goods offered are new, unused, manufactured with high quality original materials and parts, executed with the best technology existing in the market, and their perfect state of conservation. Likewise, it must be declared that the proposed good is not a prototype and that it has been previously commercialized.

d. The bidder shall submit at the time of bidding, a letter, document, or reference link in which it can be reliably verified that the equipment offered is certified for use by videoconferencing clients. In this regard, this requirement must be verified with at least two of the following videoconferencing clients: Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco Webex. It must also be compatible with other video conferencing, recording and broadcasting applications that can be used with USB cameras.

a. Financial Capability: The Offeror shall provide documented evidence demonstrating compliance with the following financial requirements:

i. Average Liquidity Ratio: To have a ratio equal to or greater than 1 on average in the last three fiscal years (2018, 2019 and 2020), this will be calculated based on the quotient of the division of total Current Assets and Current Liabilities (CL=AC/PC).

ii. Average Debt Ratio: To have a ratio equal to or less than 0.85 on average in the last three fiscal years (2018, 2019 and 2020), this will be calculated based on the quotient of the division of Total Liabilities and Total Assets (CE=TP/TA).

iii. Profitability: To have an average profitability of at least 1% in the last three fiscal years (2018, 2019 and 2020), this will be calculated based on the quotient of the after-tax profits and equity multiplied by 100

(R=UDI/Equity x 100).

To evaluate the above, the Offeror must submit copies of the financial statements (balance sheets, including all related notes, and income statements) of the Offeror or of each of the members of an APCA for the required fiscal years, which meet the following conditions:

- The historical financial statements must be audited by auditing firms;

- Certified Financial Statements are not accepted;

- The financial statements must be complete, including all notes to the financial statements;

- The historical financial statements must correspond to accounting periods already completed and audited from January to December. In the case of companies that have in any of their periods fiscal breaks other than January through December, they must submit for that period such audited fiscal break, and also the financial statements for January through December of the same year duly signed and sealed by the competent administrators of the company. Financial statements for partial periods will not be requested or accepted.

In addition, they must include the following information from the auditing firm:

(a) copy of RUC ID of the auditing firm or firm;

b) copy of the CPA's ID of the CPA who signs the financial statements, with a certificate from the firm stating that the CPA is an officer of the firm; and

c) Commercial registration, or its equivalent in accordance with the legislation of each country.

Certified financial statements will not be accepted.

In the case of APCA, this criterion must be met by all partners.

b. Experience and Technical Capacity: The Offeror shall provide documented evidence of compliance with the following experience requirements:

Lot No.1: Copy of at least three documented evidences (invoice, receiving minutes, contract, final settlement or any other certification where contract compliance can be proven) showing that the Offeror has experience in supplying 1.5 to 2.0 ton trucks, in the last years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, whose value is at least 70% of the value of its offer for this Lot.

Lot No.2: Copy of at least three documented evidences (invoice, acceptance report, contract, final settlement or any other certification where the contract performance can be proved) showing that the bidder has experience in supplying single cab pickup trucks, in the last years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, whose value is at least 70% of the value of its bid for this Lot.

Lot No.3: Copy of at least three documented evidences (invoice, reception certificate, contract, final settlement or any other certification where the fulfillment of the contract can be proved) that demonstrates that the bidder has experience in the supply of double cab pickup trucks, in the last years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, whose value is at least 70% of the value of its bid for this Lot.

Consulting Services for the elaboration of the Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan.

The consulting services ("the services") comprise: To contract the consulting services necessary to implement a Business Continuity Management System in accordance with ISO 22301 and best practices, perform a survey, diagnosis and preparation of the Business Continuity Plan, Disaster Recovery Plan and Crisis Management Plan of the DGII with their respective tests.

Preliminary criteria required of the firm to be hired to develop this consultancy:

Submit evidence of experience in three (3) business continuity projects in companies or institutions with 1500 or more collaborators. The evidence shall be in the form of three (3) letters of acceptance by the company or institution that received the services. At least one of the projects must have been executed in the Dominican Republic.

Regardless of the country of origin, such references must at least comply with these aspects:

a. Duration of the project, they must have a minimum duration of 3 months.

b. Indicate the level of satisfaction of the services provided by the bidder in the effectiveness of the implemented plan.

c. Indicate the level of satisfaction of the professional services rendered by the consulting firm.

d. References provided by the Internal Revenue Service are not allowed.

e. The projects as well as the references cannot be older than ten (10) years.

f. References must be verifiable. It is required to identify the name, title, physical and electronic address (e-mail, and other) of the person who can verify the reference provided.

Optimization of sewage and storm drainage networks for the Municipality of Mocoa (Phase I) Rumipamba and Huasipanga neighborhoods.

Capacity building of irrigators for the sustainability of irrigation systems, including training in sustainable management of irrigation systems.

For this purpose, legally constituted consulting firms are invited, that belong to IDB member countries, that have no conflict of interest with the consultancy or with the convener, and that have experience in:

i. Facilitation of gender and masculinities in rural development and/or irrigation programs and projects.

ii. Elaboration of material to implement the gender approach in rural development programs and projects.

iii. Training in female leadership and empowerment of rural women.

iv. Human and women's rights

The objective of the consultancy is to strengthen gender and masculinity capacities for technicians and irrigation organizations, focused on rural development and/or irrigation projects, in addition to the training of female leaders, thus achieving the empowerment of rural women.

The Dirección de Vialidad de la Provincia de Buenos Aires invites eligible bidders to submit sealed bids for the work: "INTERVENCIÓN INTEGRAL EN RUTA PROVINCIAL Nº 6, etapa 1", whose work will consist of the following five lots:

LOT 1

PROVINCIAL ROUTE Nº 6

STRETCH 1: Km 30.500 (PR Nº 215) - Km 93.300 (AU Ez._Cañuelas)

Execution term: 12 months

Official Budget: $ 552,162,833.09 corresponding to December 2020.

LOT 2

PROVINCIAL ROUTE Nº 6

Section 2: Km 93,300 (AU Ez._Cañuelas) - Km 116,265 (PR Nº 40)

Execution term: 12 months

Official Budget: $ 1,169,609,405.05 corresponding to December 2020.

LOT 3

PROVINCIAL ROUTE Nº 6

STRETCH 3: Km 116.265 (PR Nº 40) - Km 136.675 (PR Nº 24)

Execution term: 12 months

Official Budget: $ 1,266,267,807.54 corresponding to December 2020.

LOT 4

PROVINCIAL ROUTE Nº 6

Section 4: Km 174,250 (NR Nº 8) - Km 197,050 (Campana Acc. Roundabout)

Execution period: 12 months

Official Budget: $ 1,894,645,076.08 corresponding to December 2020.

LOT 5

PROVINCIAL ROUTE Nº 6

Section 5: Km 197,050 (Campana Acc. Roundabout) - Km 208,750 (RN Nº 12)

Execution period: 12 months

Official Budget: $ 441,707,304.71 corresponding to December 2020.

All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Maintenance Guarantee equal to the lot guarantee or the sum of the guarantees of the lots offered. The amount of the bid security for each lot is:

LOT 1 $5,500,000

LOT 2 $11,700,000

LOT 3 $12,700,000

LOT 4 $19,000,000

LOT 5 $4,500,000

Consulting services that aim to:

Strengthen the Cadastral Information System by generating updated and modernized resources for decision making.

The contracting of consulting services is proposed to achieve the following objectives:

- Update georeferenced data for analysis and interpretation for Greater Rosario. The objective is to capture high-resolution images of the city of Rosario and Greater Rosario, which will allow analysis and interpretation of the parcels in order to identify undeclared improvements. To achieve this objective, the acquisition of high-resolution images of the Greater Rosario area (23,569 hectares); geodetic support of the acquired images; image processing; and preparation of the georeferenced digital mosaic and orthophoto of the area of interest are contemplated.

- Detect undeclared improvements in Greater Rosario. It aims to update the constructions of Urban and Suburban areas of part of the city of Rosario and Gran Rosario by comparing the existing data in the database of the Cadastre and Territorial Information Service (SCIT) and the new data obtained through updated remote capture. To this end, it is necessary to:

○ Perform digital restitution.

○ Execute the field completion.

○ Determine the areas covered by improvements.

○ Carry out the comparison of surfaces.

○ Carry out the survey of improvements ○ Carry out the survey of improvements

○ Carrying out the survey of horizontal property

○ Carry out the infrastructure and services survey.

The anticipated period of performance for the project is twelve (12) months.

The Consultant may partner with other firms in the same category, with similar capacity and business objectives, in order to improve their qualifications.

Interested Consultants shall submit the following documentation: (a) a written statement of their interest in participating; (b) constituent documentation evidencing the nationality of the firm - eligibility - proof of registration and power of attorney of the signatory; c) in the case of a joint venture, consortium or similar, proof of intent to form a joint venture, and information on the firms with which the joint venture will be formed, attaching the constituent documentation of each firm, and indicating which firm will be the representative of the association; d) list of similar works in technical complexity, executed in the last 10 years, indicating for each one of them: place, description of the works performed duly certified by the contracting authority, duration of the project, approximate contract amount in U$S, assigned work team (names of officers and key personnel: Project Director/Coordinator, work group leader, participants and functions performed). 

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