REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
                             (CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)

Thailand
Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE) Project
Loan No./ Credit No./ Grant No.: IDA-D6220

Assignment Title: Individual Consultant – Senior Full Stack Developer – Transport DSS - Nepal
Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan TH-RIMES-378540-CS-INDV)

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) has received/has applied for financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE) Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (the Services) include an individual consultant – Senior Full Stack Developer – Transport DSS - Nepal who is to support the CARE Component 1 Nepal Team in completing the climate-informed DSS for the Department of Roads (DoR).

The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the primary procurement stage for the assignment are attached to this request for expressions of interest or can be found at the following website: www.rimes.int or via the address given below.

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES)
2nd Floor, Outreach Building,
Asian Institute of Technology Campus,
Klong Nung, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
Thailand

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) now invites eligible individual consultant (Consultants) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide CV demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are:

Knowledge

• At least Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other related fields

Experience

• Minimum experience of 5 years in software development, with proven track record in full system development; experience in Al and ML-enabled systems development preferred but not required
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing geospatial data analytics/visualization applications
• Demonstrable experience in developing REST APIs and microservices architectures
• Demonstrable experience in working with geospatial datasets and timeseries datasets
• Demonstrable experience in using Angular and React JS, with strong knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and/or CSS
• Demonstrable experience in working with multidimensional scientific datasets including NetCDF and HDF5, preferably in Python
• Having DevOps experience is an advantage

Skills and abilities

• Backend: Competence in using Python (Django), Node (Express), or PHP (Laravel)
• Frontend: Competence in using Angular/any other framework based on JS
• Database: Competence in using MySQL/PostgreSQL
• OS: Competence in using Linux
• Competence in GIS data processing libraries (e.g. GDAL, OGR, GeoPandas, Rasterio); GIS feed formats (e.g. transit, real-time feeds, KML, GeoJSON, and WFS); GIS APIs (e.g. routing, traffic, OGC, WMS, WFS WCS; interactive web maps using Leaflet or Mapbox; and geospatial web development libraries in Python such as Flask, Django, and GeoDjango
• Strong written and verbal command of Nepali and English

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the individual consultants method set out in the Procurement Regulations and to be specifically set out in the Request for Expressions of Interest (REoI).