Questions due by: August 24th, 2020
Bid Submission Deadline: September 14th
Advertised- August 21st, 2020
RFP available:
https://imaworldhealth.org/contracting-opportunities
Corus International (Corus) is an international non-governmental (INGO) humanitarian organization headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. We are a family of organizations who believes that those who were born into impossible circumstances deserve the possibility of a better life. Corus currently operates in 22 counties and employs about 500 local national, across Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Corus was created out of a merger of two organizations and continues to conduct business under the legacy company names.
Due to the nature of the work that Corus conducts, Corus must recruit staff in countries prior to the start of new projects. As projects are assigned and owned at an organizational level, one of our subsidiaries may be registered in a country that a new project initiative has be awarded, however the organization, e.g. Corus, is not registered. additionally, Corus employs staff in countries that Corus have no plan to be registered in as there are no project initiatives in that country.
As each country’s project initiatives may be different, there are different project budgets and the structure of the international HR staff may be broken out differently, e.g. a regional HR staff member oversees multiple countries in a region, while other countries only have a local HR staff.
B. Organizational Goals
Corus is looking for a long-term partnership with an experienced administrator who has proven operations and IT infrastructure. Corus needs a global professional employer organization (PEO) partner that enables Corus to legally engage one or more individuals in many countries worldwide. From a legal, HR and tax perspective, this partner should bring the capacity to hire employees, onboard staff, or pay personnel in local currency in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, including, but not limited to, the following countries: Panamá, Madagascar, South África, India, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, Costa Rica.
The employees will be managed by Corus on a day to day basis, where Corus maintains the substantive working relationship, makes all decisions on compensation, position duties, performance, etc. but legally the individual(s) will be the employees of the selected bidder. The selected bidder will be responsible for all statutory, human resources, and payroll requirements as dictated by the local labor laws in each country for which Corus has a need to hire an employee, contractor, fellow, or grantee.
Applicants should also be a guide and strategic partner to Corus in understanding the labor-related rules and regulations in every country and any upcoming changes, while being simultaneously responsible for ensuring that the engagement of CCNs and TCNs is compliant with local labor, tax, and related laws and regulations in each country. The applicant should be able to provide a range of international PEO and employer of record services including:
I. Project Management Support:
a. Analysis, reports, and consulting services with respect to country entrance and exit parameters
b. Anticipatory guidance on issues/needs based on each country’s requirements
c. Around the clock operations support
d. Troubleshooting
e. Templates readily available for locally compliant employment contracts
f. A network of business contacts in each country that will be made available to Corus if needed
g. Assistance with background checks, work permits, and business visas
h. Cultural consulting (e.g. advice on interviewing laws, etiquette, language, diversity, salary scales, etc.)
i. Recommendations on competitive benefits packages—which include legal, regulatory, and statutory requirements as well as what other international organizations and non-profits are
j. offering in country
k. Strategic guidance and support regarding legal and compliance requirements to register a
l. new entity in a country and/or maintain compliance with existing registrations in a country
m. Host country staffing solutions and recruitment support
n. Other project management support, as necessary
II. Administration and Finance Support:
a. Compliant on-boarding/off-boarding of TCNs and CCNs
b. Processing local payroll
c. Detailed payroll calculations including gross-to-net payroll calculations,
d. Validating the integrity and reconciliation of the payrolls
e. Pay slip distribution
f. Local tax filings and payments
g. Submitting reports to local authorities
h. Production of bank and G/L files
i. Fully consolidated financial reporting
j. Year-end filings
k. Benefits compliance
l. Other as necessary
This RFP is visible IMA site:
https://imaworldhealth.org/contracting-opportunities
