LRPS-2023-9182969 LTAS Preparation of Funding Proposals for the Green Climate Fund for Climate Smart Social Infrastructure and Services

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) is now soliciting a Request for Proposal (RFP) to establish one or more non-exclusive Long-Term Agreements for Services (LTAS) for the Preparation of Funding Proposals for the Green Climate Fund or other climate financiers for Climate Smart Social Infrastructure and Services in the East Asia and Pacific Region.

Background

The climate crisis is a child rights crisis: Virtually every child on earth is affected by at least one climate or environmental (compounded by climate change) hazard, such as droughts, floods, cyclones, and heat waves. Children are the least equipped to deal with climate impacts and disproportionally suffer from their effects. In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region alone, 141 million children are highly exposed to water scarcity; 120 million to coastal flooding; 210 million to cyclones, and 420 million to air pollution, linked to increases in greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, with one-third of the global emissions coming from the EAP region. Girls, children with disabilities, and migrant children are even more vulnerable. UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) is a composite index combining child vulnerability (health & nutrition; education; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), poverty, communication assets, and social protection) with environmental and climate shocks (water scarcity, riverine and coastal floods, tropical cyclones, heatwaves, air pollution, and vector-borne diseases). The CCRI illustrates how children’s chances for survival are significantly reduced when a lack of access to critical social services compounds exposure to climate change. Annex E includes the list of EAPRO countries with their respective CCRI. LDC and SIDS are priorities of the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

UNICEF EAPRO is supporting UNICEF Country Offices in the EAP to develop climate-smart social infrastructure and services projects in the region. All the climate-smart projects are expected to be co-financed by, but not limited to, GCF. The LTAS holder is expected to prepare Funding Proposals or equivalent for other climate financiers. The climate financier will be confirmed during the secondary bidding process.

Sectors and sub-sectors covered under climate-smart social infrastructure and services generate climate benefits and contribute to improve access to education, health, nutrition, social protection, renewable energy, and WASH services to considerably reduce overall climate risk for millions of children and their associated communities. A summary description of the social services is summarized in Annex E.

Objectives, Purpose & Expected results

UNICEF EAPRO is seeking to establish one or more non-exclusive Long-Term Agreements for Services (LTAS) for the duration of 3 years, with the option of additional 2 years extension, subject to satisfactory performance and agreement of both contracting parties. The established LTAS will be time bound, without a monetary value or guaranteed offtake. For any assignments to be contracted under the established LTAS, all suitable LTAS holders will be invited to submit their proposal in a secondary bidding process. Contract award will be made to the LTAS holder who submitted the most responsive proposal (highest ranking as combination of technical and financial score).

The key objective of assignments contracted under the resulting LTAS will be to finalize a Funding Proposal for the GCF for national or regional projects and programs until approval by the GCF Board or any other climate financiers, which would follow similar requirements.

It is expected that the LTAS holder may associate with a national firm. For the specific assignments to be contracted under these LTAS, suitable LTAS holders will be invited to submit a proposal during the secondary bidding stage. The technical proposal for these specific assignments should include information about any proposed partner or subcontractor. 

For full details, please refer to the attached Terms of Reference

This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system (UNGM).

By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html

In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission.

 Please note that in order to access the full-set of tender documents through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (1) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (2) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering.

Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated.

All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log-in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.

Should you have any questions against this solicitation, please submit your queries to Tongchanok Sonsawangphol at tsonsawangphol@unicef.org with CC to: jbehr@unicef.org ,  osrimanotham@unicef.org, psookchareon@unicef.org  and tkamtabnam@unicef.org - no later than 29 June 2023 so that all queries could be clarified and circulated to all bidders before the deadline.

We look forward to receiving your proposals within the given timeline.

Best regards,

UNICEF Supply team