Bids are hereby invited for the appointment of a Policy, Research and Legislative Review Team (Porlet) 2024 for a period of 36 months as and when needed. The scope of work for the Panel members will broadly be comprised of the following: - Undertake research and compile reports on housing and human settlements issues as determined by the needs of the Department; - Drafting human settlement technical guidelines, draft designs, undertake costing, develop business processes, programmes, policies and norms and standards as and when required; - Undertake legal research, draft legislation and regulations as and when required; - Undertake costing of various human settlements products and support the Department with additional assignments where necessary; - The scope of the panel will not only be confined to the defined scope and mandate, but where applicable will also include undertaking of other priority research, policy, programme development and legislative related assignments as urgent tasks; - The scope of work will be linked to workplans that will be developed and approved by the Department; - The workplans will contain specific deliverables, time, duration of the assignment and define the budget which will be calculated according to a specified hourly rate, as stipulated in the DPSA schedule of rates; - Work will be allocated to individuals (junior and senior professionals) based on their availability and on a fair, equitable and, if need be, also on a rotational basis. (Offerte №115911273it)