LRPS-2023-9184246 Events Management Services for the ASEAN Regional Dialogue on Skills, Employability and Transition to Decent Work in Indonesia

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific (EAP) is seeking for a qualified institution for the provision of Events Management Services for the ASEAN Regional Dialogue on Skills, Employability and Transition to Decent Work in Jakarta, Indonesia in reference to LRPS-2023- 9184246 through UNICEF/UNGM online submission system which your company is invited to participate.

Background

The Regional Dialogue on Young People’s Skills, Employability, and Transition to Decent Work in 2023 is proposed to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, aligned with Indonesia’s Chairmanship of ASEAN under the theme "ASEAN Matters: Epicenter of Growth". The event is to be co-organized by the UNICEF East Asia Pacific Regional Office

(UNICEF EAPRO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the ASEAN Secretariat and relevant ASEAN bodies, and supported by UNESCO, UN Women, and UNDP.

The 2-day Regional Dialogue will focus on young people's skills, employability, and transition to decent work in ASEAN. This includes pathways for green and digital skills and jobs, as well as bridging gender gaps. The Regional Dialogue aims to take on an integrated lifecycle approach to support adolescents and youth as they transition from education and training to navigating the world of work. Additionally, it aims to highlight the major barriers to adolescent girls' digital and STEM skill development and employability, and explore multi-stakeholder solutions that promote girls' leadership, agency, and empowerment.

Objectives, Purpose & Expected results

The 2-day Regional Dialogue aims to convene policy-level ministerial and senior government participants,

representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations, private sector leaders, United Nations and selected development partners, young people and civil society representatives and leading young social entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders.

The objectives of the Regional Dialogue are to:

# Facilitate an intergenerational exchange of lessons, challenges, and good practices relevant to adolescents’ and

youth’s skilling, employability, engagement, and transition to decent work across the ASEAN.

# Promote a shared agenda and roadmap on young people’s skilling, employability, engagement, and transition to

decent work in ASEAN across various stakeholders which will inform meaningful progress on these issues.

# Enable meaningful contributions by adolescent boys and girls, and youth themselves to the shared agenda for

informing policies and shaping solutions to challenges being faced.

Location and Duration

- Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

- Event Dates: 17-18 October 2023

- Contract duration: August to November 2023

- Additional contract duration for completion of all deliverables and reports, final approval, invoicing and payment

process.

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.

***Note:  Briefing call for bidders to be held on Monday 31st  July ( 2 pm Bangkok time.) – 20 mins presentation of the scope of this project , followed by Q&A (if any) Outlook invitation for MS teams call will be shared with those bidders who express interest until Wednesday 27 July, COB.

Should you have any questions against this solicitation, please submit your queries to THL-ML-BKKSUPPLY@unicef.org no later than 4 August 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