The Council of Europe Project is currently implementing the Project “Strengthening freedom of media, access to information and reinforcing public broadcasting system in Ukraine” and is announcing a tender procedure in order to engage national consultants to support the implementation of the project till 30 June 2019.
The deadline for submission of tender proposals is 23:59, 12 August 2018.
Tenders shall be submitted by email only (with attachments in pdf format) to the e-mail address [email protected], with the following reference in subject: call for national consultants 8572/2018/02FC. Tenders addressed to another email address will be rejected.
All questions shall be submitted at least 5 (five) working days before the deadline for submission of the tenders and shall be exclusively addressed to the [email protected] e-mail address with the following reference in subject: call for national consultants 8572/2018/02FC.
The tender is divided into the following five Lots. Tenderers may submit a tender offer for one, several or all Lots subject to the fulfilment of the criteria listed in the Tender Rules below. The Council of Europe is looking for: up to 20 Provider(s) per Lot 1; up to 15 Provider(s) per Lot 2; up to 10 Provider(s) per Lot 3; up to 15 Provider(s) per Lot 4; up to 10 Provider(s) per Lot 5 (provided enough tenders meet the criteria indicated below) in order to support the implementation of the project with a particular expertise in the fields of expertise listed below.
Lot 1 - Public Broadcasting.
Topics within this Lot 1 will include but are not limited to:
- legislation of Ukraine and Council of Europe standards on Public Broadcasting;
- models of financing of public broadcasters in Ukraine and abroad; public financial management of the companies financed from state budget;
- standards and practices of elections coverage of public broadcasters;
- content for minorities, children and on gender issues on public broadcasters;
- measuring and applying data on ratings in programming of public broadcasters;
- standards and formats for public broadcasting to cover the activities of public authorities;
- editorial standards etc.
Lot 2 – Media and Elections, Political Advertising.
Topics within this Lot 2 will include but are not limited to:
- national practices and legal framework of media coverage of elections;
- Council of Europe standards and recommendations on media coverage of elections;
- ethical and journalistic standards and legal aspects of journalists’ work during the elections;
- self-regulatory practices for media in the context of elections;
- physical and digital safety of journalists during the elections period;
- regulation of political advertising during elections;
- information disorder and new challenges (fake news etc.) in media in context of elections, etc.;
Lot 3 – Access to public information.
Topics within this Lot 3 will include but are not limited to:
- Council of Europe standards and Ukrainian legislation and practices in sphere of access to public information;
- the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents (Tromso Convention);
- establishment and operation of Information Commissioners/Commissions (authority, legislation, etc).
Lot 4 – Safety of journalists and fight against impunity.
Topics within this Lot 4 will include but are not limited to:
- national legislation on safety of journalists,
- Council of Europe standards and the ECRH case-law on freedom of expression;
- investigations of crimes against media actors in Ukraine – approaches, methodology of law enforcement bodies;
- judicial proceedings regarding the cases concerning safety of journalists;
- physical and digital safety of journalists etc.
Lot 5 - Media standards and regulation of the media sphere.
Topics within this Lot 5 will include but are not limited to:
- Council of Europe standards in the sphere of information security;
- Council of Europe standards and practices on gender and media issues,
- transparency of financing of media ownership,
- European standards on regulators in the sphere of media etc.
ASSESSMENT
Exclusion criteria and absence of conflict of interests
(by signing the Act of Engagement, you declare on your honour not being in any of the below situations)
Tenderers shall be excluded from participating in the tender procedure if they:
- made a financial offer exceeding the exclusion level set out in the Act of Engagement.
- have been sentenced by final judgment on one or more of the following charges: participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering;
- are in a situation of bankruptcy, liquidation, termination of activity, insolvency or arrangement with creditors or any like situation arising from a procedure of the same kind, or are subject to a procedure of the same kind;
- have received a judgment with res judicata force, finding an offence that affects their professional integrity or serious professional misconduct;
- do not comply with their obligations as regards payment of social security contributions, taxes and dues, according to the statutory provisions of their country of incorporation, establishment or residence;
- are or are likely to be in a situation of conflict of interests.
Eligibility criteria
- University degree in law / political sciences / social sciences / international relations / public administration / journalism or related fields;
- At least 4 years of professional experience in the areas mentioned as topics of Lots 1-5 (consulting, academic research, analytical work, expert assessments, working as trainers, contribution to the events as speakers, etc).
- For private enterpreneurs, being authorised to carry out the respective economic activities.
Award criteria
- Quality of the offer (70%), that means relevance of the experience of the tenderer in the areas covered by specific Lots, including previous assignments with international organisations that would be regarded as an asset;
- Financial offer (30%).
Documents to be provided:
- A completed and signed copy of the Act of Engagement (See attached);
- A detailed CV, preferably in Europass Format, demonstrating clearly that the tenderer fulfils the eligibility criteria (e.g. education and professional experience).
- A list of drafted expert opinions, legislation assessments, reports and other relevant materials with active links to them to the extent possible (but not less than 1) on the topics covered by the Lots 1-5 above produced in the last 5 years .
- Registration documents for private enterpreneurs (including those that prove the ability to carry out the respective types of economic activities)
Act of Engagement and CV should be submitted in English, other documents can be submitted in Ukrainian, failure to do so will result in the exclusion of the tender.
If any of the documents listed above are missing, the Council of Europe reserves the right to reject the tender.
The Council reserves the right to reject a tender if the scanned documents are of such a quality that the documents cannot be read once printed.
Attachments to the present announcement contain full description of the terms and conditions of the consultants’ involvement:
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