Provision of Intellectual Services to Support the Implementation of Ongoing and Future Projects Implemented

• Country: Armenia
• Summary: Provision of Intellectual Services to Support the Implementation of Ongoing and Future Projects Implemented
• AMT Ref No: 84482126
• Deadline: 31 Jul 2023
• Financier: Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
• Tender Value: Refer Document
• Notice Type: Tender
• Document Ref. No.: 2023/AO/57
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• Description:
• Tenders are invited for Provision of Intellectual Services to Support the Implementation of Ongoing and Future Projects Implemented by The ECCD. Lot 1 - Anti-corruption and good governance, including any or all of the following areas: 1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks; 2. Legislative and regulatory frameworks; 3. Asset declarations and illicit enrichment; 4. Conflict of interest, integrity, ethics and codes of conduct; 5. Corruption-proofing of legislation; 6. Corruption risk assessment; 7. Whistleblower protection; 8. Lobbying; 9. Public procurement; 10. Political party and electoral campaign financing; 11. Administrative anti-corruption inquiries and inspections; 12. Transparency and access to information; 13. Anti-corruption measures and integrity in the private sector; 14. Simplification of administrative procedures and lean management of administration; 15. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of corruption offences; 16. International cooperation and exchange of information; 17. Statistics and case-tracking systems; 18. Judicial and prosecutorial independence, integrity and specialisation; 19. State audit and corruption control; 20. Preventing corruption in specific economic sectors (education, healthcare, sport, etc.); 21. Preventing corruption and promoting integrity in state-owned enterprises; 22. Preventing corruption and promoting integrity in sub-national authorities and local government; 23. Design and use of IT systems; 24. Optimisation and digitalisation of anti-corruption reporting and monitoring processes. Lot 2 - Anti -money laundering (AML), including any or all of the following areas: 1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks; 2. Legislative and regulatory frameworks; 3. National and sectoral risk assessments; 4. Operational and strategic analysis by financial intelligence units and use of open source intelligence; 5. Regulation and risk -based supervision of financial institutions; 6. Regulation and risk -based supervision of non -financial businesses and professions; 7. Risk profiling of supervised entities; 8. Compliance and internal controls in the private sector; 9. Customs enforcement, cross -border risks and controls of cash and cross -border financial flows; 10. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of ML offences; 11. International cooperation and information exchange; 12. Design and use of IT systems for risk assessment, financial intelligence and financial investigation purposes; 13. Design and use of IT systems for supervisory purposes (risk-based AML/CFT supervision); 14. Design and use of IT systems for compliance purposes (private sector); 15. EU standards and EU internal market regulation for AML/CFT purposes; 16. Application of data protection requirements related to AML/CFT measures; 17. Auditing the AML/CFT internal control systems; 18. Transparency of beneficial ownership; 19. Set up and use of central registers for AML/CFT purposes; 20. Assessment and monitoring of the effectiveness of application of AML/CFT measures in a jurisdiction; 21. Developing ML/TF typologies. Lot 3 - ML/FT risks and vulnerabilities associated with new technologies, including any or all of the following areas: 1. Assessment of risks associated with new financial technologies and payment services; 2. Regulation and supervision of new financial technologies, use of supervisory technologies, including the application of relevant EU standards; 3. Remote application of customer due diligence (CDD); 4. Use of digital identity in the CDD process; 5. Outsourced AML/CFT compliance; 6. Virtual assets service providers and application of related AML/CFT measures; 7. Development and use of databases and registers for AML/CFT compliance purposes and interconnectivity; 8. Application of data analytics for AML/CFT purposes; 9. Application of related data protection rules; 10. Support to legislative, institutional, policy, structural and administrative measures associated with digital transformation in the AML/CFT area; 11. Support to digital detection, analysis and investigative capacities of ML/TF. Lot 4 - Asset recovery and asset management, including any or all of the following areas: 1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks; 2. Legislative and regulatory frameworks; 3. Asset tracing and financial investigations; 4. Asset freezing, seizure and confiscation; 5. Asset management and asset valuation; 6. International cooperation to seize and recover assets; 7. International sharing of assets; 8. International exchange of information for tax purposes, investigation and analysis of tax fraud and related offences and assessment of effectiveness of preventive and repressive system; 9. IT design and support for asset management and asset recovery systems. Lot 5 - Combating organised crime, including any or all of the following areas: 1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks; 2. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of organised crime; 3. Organised crime threat assessments; 4. Criminal intelligence methodologies and practices Lot 6 - Mutual legal assistance (MLA) and other forms of cooperation in Criminal and Administrative Matters, including any or all of the following areas: 1. Informal international cooperation in criminal matters, with an emphasis on combating economic crime; 2. Exchange of information in criminal cases; 3. Transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes; 4. Legislative and procedural frameworks; 5. Institutional procedures and effectiveness; 6. International cooperation using MLA; 7. Formulation and execution of MLA requests; 8. Extradition; 9. MLA statistics and case tracking systems. Lot 7 - Combating terrorism, proliferation and their financing, including any or all of the following areas: 1. Policies, strategies and institutional frameworks; 2. Risk and threat assessments; 3. Preventive measures against terrorism; 4. Preventive measures against financing of terrorism; 5. Targeted financial sanctions, including the EU sanctions regime; 6. Financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; 7. Assessment of terrorist financing (FT) risks associated with the non-profit sector and application of related preventive measures; 8. Law enforcement investigations, prosecution and adjudication of terrorism and/or the financing of terrorism; 9. EU standards and EU internal market application of measures against FT. The deadline for submission of applications is 31 July 2023.
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