Request for Proposals: Public Enterprise Governance Specialists

**About the Proposal**

The Ministry of Public Enterprise (MPE) is the Government of Samoa's central agency responsible for ownership policy, governance oversight, performance monitoring, and advice on divestment, including privatization and public-private partnerships (PPPs). MPE is also a lead agency under the Public Administration Sector Plan (PASP) 2025/26–2030/31 supporting strengthening governance, accountability, performance, and service delivery across Public Bodies.

Over the past decade, Samoa's fiscal, economic, and governance environment has changed significantly. Rising fiscal pressures, increasing public expectations, climate and economic vulnerabilities, and evolving service delivery requirements have highlighted the need to modernise key governance and ownership frameworks.

Several important frameworks have not been comprehensively reviewed for more than ten years, including:

- The 2014 SOE Ownership, Performance and Divestment Policy;
- Governance and Board performance frameworks;
- The New Vacancy Framework; and
- Privatization and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) guidelines.

These gaps, together with emerging policy issues such as foreign participation in SOE ownership, highlight the need to strengthen MPE’s capacity to deliver high-quality policy advice, enhance oversight of Public Bodies, and fulfil its responsibilities as a lead agency under PASP reforms.

It will also require strengthened institutional systems and sustainable internal capability within MPE, including addressing gaps identified in the Ministry’s Training Needs Analysis (FY2025–2027) and workforce planning priorities. This work will need to be coordinated with support provided by development partners, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through its Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI), to ensure a coherent and complementary approach to reform.

**Objectives of the consultancy**

DT Global seeks a qualified consultant (individual or consultancy firm) to collaborate with Ministry of Public Enterprise (MPE) in modernising governance, ownership, and performance frameworks, improving policy coherence and implementation discipline, and enhancing transparency and accountability across Public Bodies.

The supplier is expected to deliver the following services:

1. Undertake a comprehensive review of the SOE Ownership, Performance and Divestment Policy (2014) to strengthen the framework and reflect current fiscal priorities, service delivery expectations and economic conditions.
2. Develop a plan to strengthen capability of the Ministry for Public Enterprises (MPE) that enhances critical technical expertise and skills, contributes to a sustainable, high-performing and inclusive workforce capable of supporting governance, ownership, performance monitoring, and divestment functions across Public Bodies, in alignment with GEDSI and Safeguarding principles

Recommendations should align with whole-of-government public service policies, frameworks, and standards, particularly those administered by MPE, PSC, Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Ministry of Communications and Technology.

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