Verification of Expenditure of Two RESEMBID Projects: Defining A Post-Covid-19 Resilient Recovery in the Turks and Caicos Islands & Sustaining queen conch fisheries and livelihoods in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Project Background JNCC are leading the implementation of two projects, entitled "Defining A Post-Covid-19 Resilient Recovery in the Turks And Caicos Islands: Sustainable Investment in the Future of the Island's People and Environment" and "Sustaining queen conch fisheries and livelihoods in the Turks and Caicos Islands".

These projects are funded by the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID), a programme financed by the European Union and implemented by Expertise France, the development cooperation agency of France.

The bid submission should include the following: • A brief summary of the bidder's experience in relation to the requirements of this contract; • A proposed approach for achieving the objectives of the contract and delivering the detailed tasks identified within each objective.

This should be sufficiently detailed to allow assessment against the evaluation criteria (Section 14); • A detailed project plan (including Gantt chart) with proposed work programme and an estimate of time required to achieve each objective; • Details of Quality Control procedures to be followed (note for author if research project/contract: see EQA Policy Appendix 1 (Bias, Conflicting Evidence and Uncertainty) and EQU Policy Appendix 3 (Quality Assurance of Expert Knowledge and Opinion): • Details of the bidder's own internal Quality Management System; • Details of the Project Team including their roles and experience, an estimate of their time input into each task and CVs of all personnel who will be involved in the contract/project; please ensure all CVs MUST be attached as a separate PDF documentation from the proposal, so that we can meet our JNCC GDPR retention policy requirements. • Availability of the Project Team for a virtual start-up meeting. • Overall quote for the contract to include: o Day rates for all members of the Project Team; o Rates for attending start-up, interim and final meetings in Peterborough or Aberdeen (costs for travel and accommodation are attached, and should be used.

These rates are analogous to the civil service rates). o Costs and time allocation should be clearly allocated to specific tasks within this contract/project; and o VAT if applicable.

The contractor is to specify whether VAT at the prevailing rate would be applicable to this project and if so, provide their VAT registration number. • The following documentation (to submit in a zip folder separate from the proposal): o Copies of health and safety policy statements where available or a note regarding such items as lone working, emergency procedures and accident reporting; o Copies of current public and employer liability insurance certificates; o Copies of any appropriate risk assessments; and o Copies of any environmental policies should you have them.