Current Framework Contracts
EC Framework (Period) Contract – Education, Employment and Social
Planet Consultants, part of GRM International BV, is in a consortium lead by Agriconsulting Europe SA AESA supplying services to the EC in the field of Education, Employment and Social covering many aspects of the social development of countries in transition. Whenever the EC needs technical expertise for an assignment, they send out tasking notes to consortia with specific Terms of Reference with a request for services. The companies within the consortium have a turnaround of 14 days between the publishing of a tasking note and the submission of a team, so Planet Consultants responds with great speed to each specific Term of Reference.
The specific range of technical skills needed under this framework include:
- Education (formal and non-formal)
- Vocational Education and Training - VET (formal and non-formal)
- Labour Market and Employment (formal and non-formal)
- Use of Information and Knowledge Economy
- Social Inclusion and Protection (formal and informal)
- Poverty
This technical expertise will be used for:
- Programme / project identification and preparation / formulation;
- Assistance implementation;
- Preparation of Terms of Reference (services, works, supplies) and evaluation of offers (Procurement); and
- Evaluations (exante, interim, expost etc.), monitoring.
The EC uses a system with category I, II or III experts.
Category I experts are experts who have had education at least up to Masters Degree / Academic level or equivalent professional experience and need to have at least 15 years experience in the area relevant to the assignment.
Category II experts are experts who have had education at least up to Masters Degree / Academic level or equivalent professional experience and need to have at least 10 years experience in the area relevant to the assignment.
Category III experts are experts whose education or type of experience will be identified in the Specific ToRs. They need to have at least 5 years experience in the area relevant to the assignment.
All notices are published on the Planet Consultants website on http://www.planetconsultants.net/ and on the GRM International Website under Framework Contracts. Consultants can also elect to receive automated email advices of these opportunities when registering or updating their registration with the GRM International database.
An “Expert’s Guide”, providing useful information on what is covered as part of the individual expert’s rate, and what is covered in the per diem, can be downloaded below. This Guide also outlines responsibilities and reporting requirements for framework contract assignments.
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