Individual Consultancy on System Administration for Central archive of The Ministry of Adalat in development of Civil Registration System
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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
Birth registration is the first step to towards safeguarding lifelong protection and the right to legal identity enshrined in the National Action Plan on Child Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Timely, complete, and accurate data from civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) form the foundation for appropriate decision-making regarding policies, financing and service delivery for health and protection programmes for children. CRVS is essential for effective governance and has significant implications for the provision of population estimates, birth and death rates, and projections to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate maternal, newborn and child health services and other services for children.
To ensure timely development of Unified CRVS Register in 2021 UNICEF supported with the legislation review on birth and death registration and developed a Road Map for creation of Unified Register by January 2021. UNICEF is working in collaboration with UNDP and UNFPA in supporting Ministry of Adalat, State Statistics Committee, Ministry of Health and Medical Industry with the development of a CRVS system.
To continue further with Road Map implementation and development of technical solutions, a system administrator is required, who will ensure smooth roll-out of the system and quality checks, as well as preparation of staff from the involved ministries to use the newly developed Register system.
Overall purpose of the assignment is to provide support to the Central Archive of Ministry of Adalat of Turkmenistan to roll-out the Road Map implementation through system administration of effective birth and death registration and contribute to the functioning of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) System.
Scope of Work:
Specifically, the System Administrator will contribute to the implementation of CRVS Road Map, as follows:
- In partnership with UNICEF HQ and CO team review rules and regulations for effective CRVS administration
- Provide mentorship sessions to National Partner IT team, in Network and System Administrator training through and mandate of UNICEF in birth and death registration, as well as ID safe application rules and practices.
- Preparation of educational materials needed.
- Conduct assessment sessions for National Partner IT team, at least 3 times through this assignment. Identify necessary additional materials to be purchased (additional purchases need to be included as part of consultancy fee, based on samples of available equipment attached to this ToR)
- Assist National Partner IT team to prepare for international certification (preliminary CCNA)
- Conduct installation and configuration of network and server equipment with National Partner IT team.
Any other support during the field work
Review the documents for factual errors and omissions and provide feedback.
Work Assignment Overview
Tasks/Milestone:
Deliverables/Outputs:
Timeline:
- In partnership with UNICEF HQ and CO team review rules and regulations for effective CRVS administration
- Provide mentorship sessions to National Partner IT team, in Network and System Administrator training through and mandate of UNICEF in birth and death registration, as well as ID safe application rules and practices.
Mentorship report
31 Jan 2022
Preparation of educational materials needed.
Training materials
31 March 2022
Conduct assessment sessions for National Partner IT team, at least 3 times through this assignment.
Assessment results and attendance sheet for participants
31 April, 2022
Assist National Partner IT team to prepare for international certification (preliminary CCNA)
Conduct installation and configuration of network and server equipment with National Partner IT team. Identify necessary additional materials to be purchased (additional purchases need to be included as part of consultancy fee, based on samples of available equipment attached to this ToR)
Installation report. This report should consist of details report of installed equipment with handover report. This report should be submitted in 10 days after installation and configuration is completed.
Installation materials will include cabling, ankers, bolts and so on.
Software need to be installed and configured
Virtualization: Vmware
OS: Windows Server, Ubunty,
Application software: Antivirus, Backup software
Equipment to be configured:
Servers, switches, storage, Firewall
31 May 2022.
Any other support during the field work
Review the documents for factual errors and omissions and provide feedback.
System Administrator will provide 2 reports at the end of the assignment in Russian or English.
1 – 3 Mentorship report will consist of all provided training materials, assessment results and attendance sheet for participants. Reports have to be submitted not later than 31 Jan 2022, 31 Mar 2022, 31 May 2022.
2 – Installation report. This report should consist of details report of installed equipment with handover report. This report should be submitted in 10 days after installation and configuration is completed.
Minimum Qualifications required:
Enter Disciplines
Computer Science, IT, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, or other relevant fields
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
Technical Competencies
- Excellent communication (writing and oral), negotiation, and other human relation skills;
- Excellent ability to collect, treat and analyse data.
Education
- University/advanced degree in Computer Science, IT, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, or other relevant fields;
Experience
- Strong experience in network and server equipment installation, configuration, and maintenance.
- Demonstrated experience in producing documents, proposals and reports for a resource partners, including UN agency.
- Experience working in the UN system agency or UN organization is an asset
Language requirements
-Knowledge of Russian and/or Turkmen, English is an asset
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...
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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
Selection Criteria
Each proposal will be assessed first on its technical merits and subsequently on its price. In making the final decision, UNICEF considers both technical and financial aspects to ensure best value for money. The Evaluation Team first reviews the technical aspects of the offer (on the basis of the qualifications described above), followed by review of the financial offers of the technically compliant candidates. The proposal obtaining the highest overall score after adding the scores for the technical and financial proposals together, that offers the best value for money will be recommended for award of the contract.
A cumulative analysis will be used to evaluate and award proposals. The evaluation criteria associated with this TOR is split between technical and financial as follows: 70% Technical, 30% Financial, 100 % Total.
The proposals will be evaluated against the following criteria:
1. Technical Evaluation Criteria (70%) with the following weighting
The total amount of points allocated for the technical component is 70.
Criteria
Points
Educational Background
20
Proven experience and knowledge in network and server equipment installation, configuration and maintenance.
50
2. Price Proposal Evaluation Criteria (30%)
- Overall cost (unit costs, investments per phase, level of effort, etc.)
The price/cost of each of the technically compliant proposals shall be considered together with the evaluation of technical criteria.
Technical proposals failing to reach a score of 60 in total will not be considered for the consultancy.
The bidders should ensure that all pricing information is provided in accordance with the following:
- The currency of the proposal shall be in USD. Invoicing will be in the currency of the proposal.
- For the purpose of evaluation, UNICEF shall use US Dollars to evaluate all financial proposals.
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