1. CLASP will maintain a list of qualified S&L technical assistance experts called implementing partners.
2. To qualify for CLASP's list, implementing partners must demonstrate some S&L experience, agree in writing to the CLASP principles and consent to CLASP's management procedures including peer review.
3. Qualified implementing partners may apply for project work as individuals or organizations. CLASP seeks to distinguish itself by putting together the best teams of individuals selected from all potential implementing partners.
4. All CLASP's project implementation opportunities will be made available to the complete list of qualified CLASP implementing partners. Deadlines for response and adjustments to CLASP's standard selection criteria will often?be dictated by the terms of sponsoring partners and country partners.
5. CLASP management staff will not participate substantially as implementers. The rare case that CLASP management staff engages as implementers will be based upon a lack of availability of qualified outside experts. In the early years of its corporate independence, CLASP management may participate part-time as implementers in the absence of core funding.
6. Selection of implementing partners for assignments will be based upon a fair and transparent evaluation of all bids taking into account:
a. Overall level of S&L experience and performance
b. Specific task and/or country experience and performance
c. Participation in development of the project
d. Stated preferences of the donor and/or host country
e. Bid price
f. Availability
7. CLASP?s standard selection process is web- and email-based including:
a. Maintenance of a current list of qualified experts at http://www.clasponline.org/partnerlist.php;
b. Application for qualification with electronic submittal available at clasp.online.partnership.php?partner_registration=1;
c. Posting of all active opportunities at http://www.clasponline.org/opportunities.php with a specific URL distributed by email at the time of initiation;
d. Posting of guidelines for bid preparation and standard submittal procedures at http://www.clasponline.org/guidelines.php;
e. Posting of the individual selection criteria to be used for each project at http://www.clasponline.org/project_criteria.php with a specific URL distributed by email at the time of initiation;
f. Posting of the final bid scoring at http://www.clasponline.org/project_scoring.php with a specific URL distributed by email at the time of selection; and
g. Announcement of the final bid selected at http://www.clasponline.org/announcement.php with a specific URL distributed by email at the time of selection.
8. Adjustments may be made to both the criteria and standard process based on the needs of donors, host countries and individual projects, as long as they pose no violation of CLASP's intended principle of a fair and transparent selection process.
9. Concerns or complaints by implementing partners may be registered with CLASP's Executive Director and will be addressed immediately. A dispute resolution process is under consideration; if you would like to suggest a dispute resolution mechanism for CLASP, please send it to cegan@clasponline.org.
