Deadline: 1-Jan-21
The British Embassy in Baghdad is accepting bids for a 2-3 year project under the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Iraq Programme. The overall vision of the project is to support Iraq to develop a more inclusive political system and to support broadened participation in political processes, and decision-making.
The project will look to:
- To encourage the development of issue-based political discourse, engaging across a broad spectrum of political actors, CSOs, and communities.
And/or
- To support the ability of politically-engaged actors (especially youth) to play an active role in Iraqi political life through the provision of technical, advisory and mentoring support.
Requirements
- The call for bids is open to international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and private sector entities. The contract will be a grant agreement awarded on a strictly not-for-profit basis. This call for bids is open to all suppliers in the market, including suppliers on the CSSF Framework.
- Bidders should have registration, presence and previous experience working in Iraq, with particular knowledge or experience of the political landscape.
- Bidders should consider sub-contracting with local CSOs or private sector organizations, using appropriate selection criteria.
- Deep, relevant thematic experience on the theme of inclusive politics, particularly in the MENA context.
- The Embassy strongly encourages bidders to develop innovative ideas and to de-conflict to the extent possible with other existing and planned programmatic activity by third parties in Iraq.
- Bidders should have sufficient financial resilience and a proven track record of transparently and effectively managing donor funded projects of similar scale. Specifically, Bidders should have previously received a direct fund of at least $200,000 for a one year spend.
- Grant agreements are strictly not allowed to generate a profit for the delivery partner. For-profit delivery organizations will be asked to provide proof of compliance with this requirement.
- Suppliers should pay particular attention to relevant UK legislation on aid divergence; and proscribed organizations.
- The Embassy retains the right to create a reserve list of bids that meet its technical criteria, which may subsequently be used to select additional bids.
Bidding Process
- The Embassy will consider which bidders’ concepts/proposals to shortlist. These organisations will then be asked to submit full bids. This decision will be based on:
- Relevance to the themes identified.
- Evidence of deep knowledge of political inclusion issues in Iraq.
- Quality of the project, including deliverability and realistic results of the proposed intervention with the resources and within the expected time-frame of this project.
- Strategic fit with Embassy priorities.
- Following the selection of a shortlist of prospective grantees, the Embassy will ask for full bids including costed bids from these organisations only. This will include a detailed Activity Based Budget and completed the Project Proposal Form.
- Full evaluation criteria for these detailed bids will be shared with shortlisted organisations. They are likely to include aspects of risk management, sustainability, value for money, quality, expertise, etc.
- The Embassy reserves the right to carry out due diligence of potential grantees as part of the selection process. Due to the volume of concepts/proposals expected, They will not be able to provide feedback on unsuccessful concepts/proposals.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/call-for-bids-supporting-inclusive-politics-in-iraq