Administrative And Technical Assistance Facility - Reference ATA 2025

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

The Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro intends to conclude several low value contracts for the provision of services to the EU Delegation to Montenegro in different fields of expertise.

The Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro intends to conclude several low value contracts for the provision of services to the EU Delegation to Montenegro in different fields of expertise.

The purpose of this notice is to establish the sub-lists of experts for each field of expertise. The sub-lists will be valid for four years from the dispatch of this notice. During the validity of the sub-lists, should there be a need for the corresponding services, a contract for up to €15,000 may be signed, through a very low value negotiated procedure with at least 1 candidate (€1,000.01 - €15,000).

In case of a high number of candidates included in the sub-list for a specific field of expertise, only a limited number of candidates – ranked best based on the selection criteria provided in section 2 below – will be invited to submit an offer in the negotiated procedure.

For ATA 2025 assignments, indicative start date, duration and value of the contract is indicated under each expert’s profile below.

Selection criteria

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 1 - Democracy and Rule of Law University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration in law Experience At least 3 years, preferably 5 years of professional experience in legal research, analysis and report drafting Knowledge and skills

Sound knowledge of EU policies regarding Electoral reform, Democracy, Government, and Rule of Law (incl. Judiciary, Anti-Corruption, Fundamental Rights);

Sound knowledge about the EU accession process/Negotiations;

Excellent reporting and drafting skills;

Experience with Montenegrin national authorities would be an asset.

Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken Montenegrin and English

Indicative start date 01/10/2025 Duration of assignment (months) 12 Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 2 - Public Administration Reform (PAR) University degree

University degree of minimum three year’s duration, preferably in political science or public administration studies

Experience

At least 5, but preferably 8 years of professional experience in working with public administration

At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in monitoring and evaluating relevance and credibility of PAR reform programmes, including optimization of civil service

Experience in assessing the achievement of indicators, possible deviations and their reasons

Knowledge and skills

Have sound knowledge about the EU policies for the reform of public administration and about the EU accession process, as well as familiarity with PRAG procedures

Language requirements

Fluency in local language

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date 01/11/2025 Duration of assignment (months) 12 months Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 3 - Public Finance Management (PFM) University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience At least 5 years of experience in good governance (public finance management) sector Knowledge and skills

Knowledge of the PFM developments in Montenegro

professional experience in monitoring and evaluating relevance and credibility of PFM reforms;

Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date November 2025 Duration of assignment (months) 11 Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 4 - Competition and State Aid University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience At least 5 years of experience in competition /state aid field Knowledge and skills Knowledge of the competition / state aid developments in Montenegro Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date November 2025 Duration of assignment (months) 11 Maximum contract value €6,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 5 - Data collection and encoding of EU financial assistance (2 experts) University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience

At least 3 years of relevant experience related to visibility, communication and/or data collection.

Experience related to the fields of this contract such as writing PR texts, promoting EU projects, organising events, collecting and disseminating data, data research

Knowledge and skills

Ability to transform complex technical language into easily digestible texts for wider audiences.

Knowledge of EU policies and project implementation.

Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date October 2025 Duration of assignment (months) 12 Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 6 – IT expert University degree

University degree of minimum three year’s duration, preferably in IT sciences or electrical engineering;

Experience

At least 7 years of professional experience in the IT sector, out of which minimum 3 in development of IT systems for public administration

Experience in drafting technical specifications for supply tenders

Experience with Montenegrin national authorities will be an asset

Knowledge and skills

Knowledge with EU PRAG rules and procedures

Excellent presentation, communication, reporting and drafting skills

Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Knowledge of Montenegrin will be an asset

Indicative start date October 2025 Duration of assignment (months) 12 Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 7 - Monitoring of human rights and civil soceity grants/sub-grants contracts (2 experts) University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience At least 2 years, preferably 5 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects Knowledge and skills Experience in project cycle management, monitoring of projects implementation, project evaluation, PRAG procedures Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date December 2025 Duration of assignment (months) 12 months Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 8 –Chapter 27 – Environment and climate change University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience At least 7 years of general work experience out of which 3 years of work experience in the area of environmental protection (policies/implementation/ monitoring) Knowledge and skills Knowledge of environmental protection developments and reform processes in Montenegro; excellent data collection and drafting skills Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date as soon as practicable Duration of assignment (months) 12 months Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 9 –Reform and Growth Facility (2 experts) University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience At least 3 years of work experience in stakeholder engagement and coordination; Experience in monitoring reform processes such as those under the Reform and Growth Facility and internal market-related accession negotiation chapters Knowledge and skills Excellent coordination skills; Knowledge of Montenegrin reform processes including EU accession process and Reform and Growth Facility Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date as soon as practicable Duration of assignment (months) 12 months Maximum contract value (per contract) €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 10 – Administrative Support and data collection University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration Experience Minimum 3 years of experience related to administrative support, collecting and disseminating data, organising and execution of meetings and ensuring follow up Knowledge and skills

Knowledge of EU policies and project implementation;

IT literacy - conversant with Microsoft Office Package (WORD, Excel, PowerPoint, the Internet

Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date October 2025 Duration of assignment (months) 12 months Maximum contract value €15,000

Expert’s profile (title) Lot 11 - Education, Employment and Social Policies University degree University degree of minimum three year’s duration, preferably in social or political sciences Experience At least 10 years, preferably 5 years of work experience in policy development and/or implementation in the areas above. Knowledge and skills EU policies in the area of employment and social policies Language requirements

Excellent command of written and spoken English

Indicative start date as soon as practicable Duration of assignment (months) 12 Maximum contract value €15,000

Submission of expression of interest

Interested Candidates Should Provide The Following:

• Full contact details and indication of the Lot for which they are expressing interest;
• Completed Declaration on honour on exclusion and selection criteria for procurement, to be found at: https://wikis.ec.europa.eu/display/ExactExternalWiki/Annexes#Annexes-AnnexesA(Ch.2):General (Annex A14a), stating that they are not in any of the exclusion situations and that they fulfil the selection criteria listed in section 2. The declaration of honour has to be duly signed and dated by the expert. The Contracting Authority may request the candidates to provide corresponding supporting evidence.
• CV in EU format.
  
  

Interested candidates should send their expression of interest, indicating the above title and reference, to the following email address:

delegation-montenegro-coops@eeas.europa.eu not later than 16:00 hrs on 30/09/2025

Protection of personal data

If processing of expression of interest / reply to the invitation to tender involves the recording and processing of personal data (such as name, address and CV), such data will be processed pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725[1] of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC. Unless indicated otherwise, any personal data will be processed solely for evaluation purposes under the call for expression of interest / call for tenders by the European Commission acting as data controller. Details concerning the processing of personal data are available in the privacy statement at: https://commission.europa.eu/funding-tenders/procedures-guidelines-tenders/data-protection-public-procurement-procedures_en .

If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, you can contact the data controller (the head of contracts and finance unit R4 of DG Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood) by explicitly specifying your request.

The tenderers personal data may be registered in the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES) if the tenderer is in one of the situations mentioned in Article 138 of the Financial Regulation[2]. For more information, see the privacy statement: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/how-it-works/annual-lifecycle/implementation/anti-fraud-measures/edes_en.

[1] OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39

[2] Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast) (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj).

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