Bids are hereby invited for the following: Provision of Business case advisory services for the Northern Cape schools programme. Scope: The service provider will be required to provide the following services: • Review and assess the business case undertaken by the Northern Cape Department of Education; • Align the programme within the context of Department’s other infrastructure programmes; • Refine the objectives of the programme to define the infrastructure intervention more clearly; • Refine the provincial context to clearly outline the province specific challenges and how the proposed intervention seeks to address these in an effective and efficient manner; • Explore and develop alternative implementation and funding options for the programme; • Assess the legal and regulatory environment to determine whether the options proposed are complying; • Provide high-level risk assessments for each of the identified options; • Develop a risk assessment for the recommended option to ensure potential material risk is identified and managed; • Recommend the appropriate implementation option to pursue; • Develop a comprehensive Cost Efficiency Analysis for the programme; • Develop a comprehensive Socio-economic Analysis for the programme, which includes amongst others, a sensitivity analysis considering major risk variables; • Refine the identified procurement plan into a programme specific procurement plan; and; • Review and further develop the project execution plan for the project, including making recommendations regarding the establishment of a project management office and the appropriate resources thereof. (Ausschreibung №97658374de)