Procurement Notices

Project Title: 

00092092: Global Sustainable Supply Chains for Marine Commodities Project

Project Description and Background

Over exploitation of marine fisheries is a major global issue and key driver of changes in the marine environment. Excessive fishing is caused by a variety of inter-acting factors, including the growing global demand for seafood. This project contributes to address key aspects of the market forces that drive overfishing. The project will add to the transformation of the seafood market by mainstreaming sustainability in the value chain of important commodities platforms, and fisheries improvement projects (FIP), developing national capacities, and generating learning to be shared worldwide. The project will allocate GEF resources strategically under the following four (4) project components, namely:

Component 1: Promotion of global demand for sustainable marine commodities

Component 2: Enabling environment for sustainable marine commodities supply chains

Component 3: Demonstration of Fisheries Improvement Projects (FIPs)

Component 4: Sustainable marine commodities information and knowledge management systems

The project is an inter-regional intervention. Market engagement and knowledge management are global components. The sustainable marine commodities platforms and FIPs will be implemented, using a participatory approach in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Indonesia and Philippines.

This activity is covered under Component 2: Enabling environment for sustainable marine commodity supply chains. It is aligned with the Project Document (ProDoc) which directs under this component the conduct of an in-depth sector analysis for the country; and the preparation of a five-year strategic plan/ National Action Plan (NAP), herewith identified in this document as the National Management Plan (NMP), for the platform towards the sustainable fisheries management of two (2) target marine commodities, the Blue Swimming Crab (BSC) and the Octopus (OCT).

Cognizant of the present sustainability issues and challenges that beset the BSC and OCT commodities in the country, and the need for new National Management Plan (NMP) for the sustainability of the said commodities, which all stakeholders, including government and business, will actively support by virtue of mutual benefits anchored upon an agreed unified set of goals—in line with the objectives of the Fisheries Code, and supported by the goal of the GMC to mainstream sustainable fisheries management for the BSC and OCT commodities in the Philippines, the project has required the services of National Consultants (one for each commodity) for the support and packaging of their respective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports, and National Management Plans (NMPs).

Given this background, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in the Philippines, as implementing partner of the project Global Sustainable Supply Chains for Marine Commodities (GMC-PHI), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), requires the services of a Technical Assistant to support both National Consultants throughout the RCA and NMP development process.

Scope of Work

The Technical Assistant is expected to perform the following tasks:

1. Provide on-site coordination support to the GMC-PHI National Consultants (NCs) for the BSC and OCT marine commodities with regard to the implementation of their respective activity roll-out plans, as approved by the BSC and OCT respective Technical Working Group (TWG) marine commodity platforms;
2. Conduct supplementary desktop research, including, but not limited to, socio-economic, statistical, and demographic information, as required by the NCs in the development of the RCA and NMP;
3. Coordinate the retrieval of data from various government offices, within BFAR, and/or among other sources, as required by the NCs in the development of the RCA and NMP;
4. Provide support for the Finance and Admin Officer and Administrative Assistant in the processing up to the release of payment tranches for the NCs, as approved by their respective TWG oversights;
5. Support the project team in preparing project reports and other project related materials (e.g., Quarterly and Annual Progress reports);
6. Support in organizing meetings workshops, trainings and events (preparing minutes, drafting and sending out invitations, agenda and drafting follow up actions);
7. Performs other tasks as assigned by the National Platform Officer.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

Institutional Arrangement

For the duration of the contract, the Technical Assistant will be under the direct supervision of the GMC-PHI National Platform officer, and overall supervision of the National Coordinator.

Duration of Work

The expected duration of work is five (5) months from 1 Aug 2019 to 31 Dec 2019.

Duty Station

The Technical Assistant shall report to the BFAR – Capture Fisheries Division (BFAR-CFD) and UNDP CO, and participate in on-site activities hosted by the GMC-PHI as necessary towards the completion of the deliverables.

Scope of Proposal and Schedule of Payments

Corporate competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN's values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Functional and technical competencies

• Ability to work in a diverse and multi-cultural environment;
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure and to meet strict and competing deadlines;
• Displays analytical judgment and demonstrated ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
• Computer literate.

Qualifications of the Successful Individual Contractor

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in sociology, foreign international relations, economics, and/or other related fields

Experience

• At least three (3) months work experience in field administrative assistance, training support, and/or other related tasks, preferably for international development organization/s

• At least one (1) year work experience in administrative assistance, logistics, procurement support, preferably for international development organization/s

Language requirements

• Excellent English writing and communication skills.

Evaluation Method and Criteria

Offers will be evaluated based on combined scoring method – where the Technical Proposal will be evaluated based on qualifications in the CV. The Technical evaluation is weighted a max. of 70%.

The Financial Proposal that will be evaluated through submission of the Offeror's Letter to UNDP Confirming Insterest and Availability for the IC including Financial Proposal Template and combined with the price offer will be weighted a max of 30%;

For the evaluation of the Technical Proposal, the selection of the successful consultant must be based in the following qualifications (with the appropriate obtainable points):

Technical Criteria for Evaluation

Applicants who will only receive a minimum score of 70 points and above from the assessment of the CV will be qualified for the assessment of the Financial Proposal.

Recommended Presentation of Offer and Documentation

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document at https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=86157.

• Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
• Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references;
• Financial Proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided.  If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP. 

You may download the editable version of the Offeror's Letter to UNDP Confirming Insterest and Availability for the IC by clicking on this link: http://gofile.me/6xdJm/bE9TCw8fU

In view of the volume of applications UNDP receives, only shortlisted offerors will be notified.