Deadline: 3-Apr-23
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is launching a request for proposals to solicit competitive proposals and select Service Providers to implement and execute services to support the integration of adaptation and resilience into infrastructure projects in South Asia and SIDS.
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is an international organization which works as a solutions broker to accelerate action and support for adaptation solutions, from the international to the local, in partnership with the public and private sector, to ensure they learn from each other and work together for a climate resilient future. Founded in 2018, the GCA works from its headquarters in Rotterdam with a knowledge and research hub based in Groningen. The GCA is establishing a worldwide network of regional offices in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Through this evolving network of offices and global and regional GCA teams, the organization engages in high-level policy activities, new research contributions, communications, and technical assistance to governments and the private sector.
Pillers
GCA’s 2020-2025 business plan and strategy have three pillars:
- Programs: Food Security; Using Nature for more resilient infrastructure; Water for Urban Growth and Resilience; Climate Finance; Youth Leadership.
- Knowledge: Building adaptation knowledge globally through cutting edge products such as the State and Trends in Adaptation Report and the Knowledge Exchange Platform.
- Advocacy and Awareness: Formulating policy messages to move the global, regional, and local adaptation agendas forward.
Interventions
Scaling up GCA’s impact and achieving this transformational change requires a cross sectoral approach which includes:
- Understanding adaptation needs through data, knowledge, and analysis.
- Planning adaptation interventions and financing adaptation solutions.
- Quantifying and structuring the investment case for public and private stakeholders by identifying potential financial and economic returns on investments and environmental co-benefits that can demonstrate directly the impact of NBS, and overall.
- Strengthening the enabling environment – appropriate regulations and standards, strengthened private and public capacities.
In this context, the Infrastructure and NBS program at GCA supports climate resilience into investments, by addressing key barriers to integrating adaptation and innovative Nature Based Solutions (NBS) into infrastructure projects. GCA delivers upstream analysis and technical support to develop information and metrics on climate hazards, assets exposure, vulnerability hotspot and finally adaptation and resilience options that are financially viable. Specific interventions include:
- High resolution climate risk assessments for infrastructure investment project assets and the landscape surrounding the assets;
- Adaptation and resilience design guidelines and investment options, including the identification and appraisals of options’ costs and benefits across the infrastructure’s lifetime; and
- Capacity building and transaction advisory support to account for climate risk, adaptation and resilience options, within the project and including for public – private partnerships.
Funding Information
- The maximum financial envelope for the required period of services during the entire Framework Agreement period referred to herein, is estimated at EUR 1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand Euros). Individual Call-off Orders will be priced based on the detailed Scope of Services for each infrastructure project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participation in this Call for Proposals is open on equal terms to any natural and legal companies not in any of the situations listed in Article 57 of the EU Directive 2014/24/EU. Bidders shall provide a Declaration of Honour, duly signed and dated, including a statement that they are not in any of the situations listed in Article 57 of EU Directive 2014/24/EU. In case of a joint proposal such declaration shall be submitted for each partner.
- The declaration shall also be submitted for the subcontractors, when relevant. Besides the submission of the signed Declaration of Honour, the Bidder undertakes to inform GCA, without delay, of any changes to his situation in this regard. Bidders may be excluded from participation in this Call for Proposals if they are found to be in one of the situations for exclusion or fail to submit the above-mentioned declaration.
For more information, visit GC Adaptation.