Procurement Service Provider (PSP)

    The PSP is a three-year Technical Assistance (TA) Project, funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy (New Delhi), with the aim to extend assistance in the human resource procurement aspects of the MGP of Government of Kerala (GoK). The PSP office is located in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The PSP, therefore is mandated to carry out the following activities:

• Developing appropriate and transparent procurement systems and procedures.
• Assisting the MGP Secretariat in planning TA inputs for MGP on an annual and quarterly basis.
• Based on the approved work plan, identify qualified domestic and international experts and institutions in various fields of specialization, shortlist and propose to the MGP Secretariat for final selection. Experts may be hired on an individual basis or through institutions or firms. In most cases, the assignments will be small and direct contracting will therefore be permitted. In case the contract value is above the threshold limit laid down in the Government of Netherlands (GoN), the TA services will be tendered. However, transparency in the selection process would prove to be most critical in both cases.
• Post-selection, the PSP will issue contracts to the selected TA service providers and field them after proper briefing. As a result, the PSP becomes the contracting party. Post-fielding, the onus of monitoring the outputs of the TA service providers lies with the Initiative Owners (i.e. the departments in which the initiative is being implemented).
• Accounting, financial reporting, and progress reporting on the TA services procured the PSP as well as the operation and management aspects of the PSP itself.
  
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