Deadline: 10-Jun-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites you to submit a Proposal to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for the “”Upscaling infrastructure resilience through innovative financial approaches, governance, and practice””.
Objectives
The bidder would work closely with the Coordinating Lead Author of the Flagship Report and the UNDPCDRI PMU in providing:
- A Position Paper on the theme – “Upscaling infrastructure resilience through innovative financial approaches, governance and practice”. The Position Paper submitted may be fed in part or as needed under the Flagship Report.
- Shaping the overall messaging and analytical flow by synthesizing findings from their own Position Paper and thereby, contributing to the overall development.
- Participation in two Workshops to be held in quarter three of 2022. The first Workshop would discuss the abstracts for Position Papers submitted by all Lead Authors of Pillar 5 and, the second one would review the completed Position Papers and progress towards a compelling draft.
Scope of Work
- The Global Flagship Report seeks to assess challenges, opportunities and the overall progress made in Financing for Disaster and Climate Resilient Infrastructure implementation across the world and point out the directions for future project activities.
- In doing so, it aims to work collaboratively with an institution that will support and contribute to the work – ‘Financing for Disaster and Climate Resilient Infrastructure’ by means of a Position Paper development on the theme – “Upscaling infrastructure resilience through innovative financial approaches, governance and practice” and by contributing to the development. The assigned tasks and workflow for the Bidder are listed below:
- Collating literature, evidence, and data for preparing the Position Paper
- Lead, oversight, and quality control
- Multistakeholder engagement
- Coordination and correspondence
- Complimentary to global agendas
Outputs
The bidder would work closely with the Coordinating Lead Author of the Flagship Report and the UNDPCDRI PMU in delivering the following outputs:
- A Position Paper on the theme – “Upscaling infrastructure resilience through innovative financial approaches, governance and practice”.
- Lead, oversight and quality control to create a compelling Chapter narrative.
- Participation in the two workshops to firstly define the abstract for the Position Paper and secondly, to refine the Position Paper for providing the most optimal contribution.
Duration: The duration of the assignment will be from June 2022 till September 2022.
Criteria
- Qualifications of the Service Provider
- The Service Provider must describe and explain how and why they are the best entity that can deliver the requirements of UNDP by indicating the following:
- Profile – describing the nature of business, field of expertise, licenses, certifications, accreditations;
- Business Licenses – Registration Papers, Tax Payment Certification, etc.
- Track Record – list of clients for similar services as those required by UNDP, indicating description of contract scope, contract duration, contract value, contact references;
- Certificates and Accreditation – including Quality Certificates, Patent Registrations, Environmental Sustainability Certificates, etc.
- Written Self-Declaration that the company is not in the UN Security Council 1267/1989 List, UN Procurement Division List or Other UN Ineligibility List.
- The Service Provider must describe and explain how and why they are the best entity that can deliver the requirements of UNDP by indicating the following:
- Proposed Methodology for the Completion of Services
- The Service Provider must describe how it will address/deliver the demands of the RFP; providing a detailed description of the essential performance characteristics, specifications, reporting conditions and quality assurance mechanisms that will be put in place, while demonstrating that the proposed methodology will be appropriate to the local conditions and context of the work.
- Qualifications of Key Personnel
- The Service Provider must provide:
- Names and qualifications of the key personnel that will perform the services indicating who is team leader, key personnel, who are supporting, etc.;
- CVs demonstrating qualifications must be submitted if required by the RFP; and
- Written confirmation from each personnel that they are available for the entire duration of the contract.
- The Service Provider must provide:
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=91700