Consulting Firm for ITAS preparation: tax business process re-engineering, legal and regulatory review, and preparation of the ITAS procurement package

LEBANESE REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF FINANCE Lebanon Fiscal Management Project - Project Coordination Unit REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES - FIRMS SELECTION) Country Lebanese Republic Project Lebanon Fiscal Management Project (FMP) (P181155) Loan No. IBRD-96440 Assignment Title Consulting Firm for ITAS Preparation: Business Process, Legal Review and Procurement Support Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan) LB-MOF-568490-CS-QCBS Market Approach Open - International Deadline for Submission of Expressions of Interest 28 September 2026 at 15:00, Beirut local time 1. Financing The Lebanese Republic has received financing from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) toward the cost of the Lebanon Fiscal Management Project (FMP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this financing to eligible payments under the contract for the consulting services described below. The consulting services (“the Services”) will be provided to the Ministry of Finance of the Lebanese Republic (“the Client”), which is the implementing agency for the Project. 2. Objective and scope of the Services The Ministry of Finance intends to deploy a modern Integrated Tax Administration System (ITAS) to replace its current legacy tax administration environment, which comprises SIGTAS for income tax and VAT, together with separate applications for Built Property Tax, Inheritance Tax, Stamp Duty and Collection. The ITAS will support core tax administration functions across the Revenue Directorate and the VAT Directorate, and must be designed to interoperate with Lebanon’s customs system (ASYCUDA), the Treasury single account system, the civil registry, the land registry, and the e-invoicing platform currently under development at the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance seeks to engage a single consulting firm with multidisciplinary capacity to deliver two interdependent and sequenced streams of preparatory work under one integrated assignment: Stream 1 - Business Process and Legal Review: current state assessment and gap analysis of tax administration business processes, laws, regulations, procedures and institutional arrangements across the Revenue Directorate and the VAT Directorate; business process re-engineering and definition of future “To-Be” processes; a Legal Reform Matrix identifying the legislative and regulatory amendments required to enable electronic filing and payment, electronic taxpayer notification, legal validity of digital records, data privacy and taxpayer rights in a digital environment; institutional readiness and change management assessment; and update of the relevant sections of the Ministry’s administrative procedures manual. Stream 2 - ITAS Procurement Preparation: preparation of the complete technical and functional documentation required for the procurement of the ITAS solution, including the Functional Requirements Specification, the Technical Requirements Specification and Architecture Note, the