CONSULTING SERVICES

Consulting Services to Develop and Deploy a Core National Online Job Portal

Institution: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Country: Suriname

Project: Labor Market Alignment with New Industries

Sector: Social Investment

Abstract: Consultancy to develop and deploy a Core online job portal that connects employers and job seekers in a simple, fast, and functional manner.

Loan No.: SU-L1061

Contract/Bid No.: P00114

Deadline: 17^th June 2026 

The Government of Suriname has received financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), toward the cost of the Labor Market Alignment with New Industries – SU-L1061 and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include: the development and deployment of a Core online job portal that connects employers and job seekers in a simple, fast, and functional manner. This CORE is a deliberately lean first step. It prioritizes core employment intermediation over complex analytics. It is designed to be operational quickly, with a small team, low technical overhead, and measurable immediate impact. It does not replace the long-term Labor intermediation system/Labor Market Information System (LIS/LMIS) vision; it is the starting point.

The general objective of this consultancy is to design, develop, and deploy a simple, functional, and publicly accessible online job portal for Suriname that enables employers to publish vacancies and job seekers to search and apply for jobs, managed and overseen by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor.

Specific Objectives

• Enable employers to register and be approved by the Ministry before posting vacancies.
• Allow job seekers to register or browse vacancies without registration, and apply online.
• Ensure that employer-applicant contact is facilitated via email notification upon application.
• Ensure that the application of job seekers, access from employers to the application and result of the intermediation is adequately logged to track the mediation steps.
• Provide the Ministry staff with a back-office interface to manage users, vacancies, and generate basic reports.
• Deliver a working system within a short timeframe with minimal infrastructure requirements.

The Consultant shall design, develop, test, deploy, and hand over a web-based CORE job portal with the following modules:

1. Employer Module
2. Job Seeker Module
3. Filtering function for job seekers and employers
4. MoHWL Back-Office Module
5. General Platform Requirements
6. Employer Workforce Reporting Module – for MoHWL internal use only

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services.

Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. Firms should demonstrate:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in the development and deployment of similar system
• Experience developing, executing, and managing the following key components of the system
  • Technology Stacking
  • Hosting and Infrastructure
  • Safety and Security
  • Handover Requirements
  • Data Integrity: Identity Validation and Deduplication
• Completed at least 2 similar assignments.
• Demonstrate firm’s eligibility: To establish eligibility, provide company registration documents showing country of legal incorporation or constitution
• The consulting firm should propose, at minimum, the following key experts:
  • Project Manager / Tech Lead: Overall delivery, client liaison, technical architecture decisions; Part-time (50%)
  • Full-Stack Developer (×1 or ×2): Frontend and backend development, database, integrations; Full-time
  • UX/UI Designer: Wireframes, user interface, mobile responsiveness. May be same person as developer for CORE; Part-time (50%)
  • QA / Tester: Functional testing, UAT support, bug tracking. May be performed by developer; Part-time (30%)

Estimated Contract duration: 7-8 months.

Consultants will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Inter-American Development Bank: Policies for the Selection and Contracting of Consultants financed by the Inter-American Development Bank GN-2350-15 and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the policies.

Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub-consultancy to enhance their qualifications. For the purpose of establishing the short list, the nationality of a firm is that of the country in which it is legally incorporated or constituted and in the case of Joint Venture, the nationality of the firm appointed to represent it.

Consultants will be selected in accordance with the Selection Based on the Consultants’ Qualifications (CQS) set out in the Consultant Policies.

Further clarifications and information including the Terms of Reference (ToR) can be obtained via email address: [email protected]  before June 12, 2026 at 15:00 PM Suriname Time.

Expressions of Interest (EOI) addressed to the Program Manager as provided below must be submitted in a written form via the email provided by 17^th of June 2026 at 15:00 PM Suriname Time.

Late submissions shall not be accepted.

Attn: Mr. Oyeleye Adeniyi, Program Manager

Program Execution Unit (PEU)

Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Labor

Lalla Rookhweg #25, Paramaribo, Suriname

E-mail: [email protected]