Procurement Notices

Project Description

At the UN climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, countries adopted the Paris Agreement that sets out a global action plan for limiting global warming to “well below 2 degrees C” starting from 2020. The Agreement, which entered into force on 4 November 2016, built upon the foundation of climate pledges from 187 countries, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Countries are expected to submit updated and more ambitious NDCs every five years which will become the main vehicle for illustrating a country’s strategic vision on climate change in the context of sustainable development. The UNDP NDC Support Programme will support Governments to achieve transformational change by using NDC implementation as a mechanism to scale up investment in climate change and deliver sustainable development. The Programme will be implemented in the country as “NDC Support Project for the Philippines (NSPP)”.

Private Sector Engagement in the NDC Process

It is recognized that the successful implementation of the NDC actions require engagement of the Private Sector (PS). With the Philippine NDC seen to require between US$ 12 to 30 billion in investments in the energy sector alone to achieve the sector’s GHG emission reduction goals from the business-as-usual scenario for the period 2000-2030, the private sector could complement effectively the efforts of the government to provide the enabling environment and support to operations, including policies and information for making investment decisions.  Furthermore, the Philippine NDC offers the private sector promising investment opportunities and productive partnerships with the public sector and the international community that deliver the benefits of sustainability, climate-resiliency, and a green economy that create green jobs.

A number of policies and frameworks support the transition to a low carbon, climate-resilient and green economy and the engagement of the private sector. This is underscored in the Climate Change Act, which mandates the CCC to “coordinate with local government units (LGUs) and private entities to address vulnerability to climate change impacts of regions, provinces, cities and municipalities” and to coordinate various sectors, including the private sector, in the development and implementation of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP), and the local action plans.

Inherently risk-averse, the business sector is looking to partner with the government in enhancing the enabling environment to overcome the challenges in climate change investments through policy changes and market-based incentives. The CCC recognizes the strategic role and acknowledges the vulnerability of the private sector in addressing climate change, hence, this initiative on Private Sector Engagement in the NDC through a top-up support fund has been granted to the NSPP in order to strengthen PS engagement in the NDC.

Green Buildings

One of the activities listed in this output is the development of standards for green buildings and infrastructure with corresponding policy issuance by CCC for the adoption of the said standards. In June 2015, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the country’s engineering and construction arm launched the Green Building (GB) Code, a Referral Code of the National Building Code (Presidential Decree No. 1096) with the assistance of the World Bank-IFC, and technical support from the Philippine Green Building Initiative (PGBI). The GB Code adopts an incremental approach and is subject to periodic review (every three years) of the DPWH Secretary through the National Building Code Development Office to modify or include new concepts and challenges in buildings, emerging efficient technologies and to expand the coverage to other building use/occupancy, or to replace the outmoded measures. “The GB Code seeks to improve the efficiency of building performance through a framework of acceptable set of standards that will enhance sound environmental and resource management that will counter the harmful gases responsible for the adverse effects of climate change, throughout the building’s life-cycle including efficient use of resources, site selection, planning, design, construction, use, occupancy, operation and maintenance, without significant increase in cost. This GB Code is a set of regulations setting minimum standards for compliance and not intended to rate buildings (GB Code, 2015). Furthermore, the GB Code only applies to certain type of new buildings but not to existing buildings.

Beyond the GB Code, a number of buildings in the country have already undergone voluntary certifications such as the grEEEn by PGBI, BERDE by PHILGBC and LEED by USGBC. The CCC has also initiated activities towards developing standards for climate-smart buildings that integrates green building and disaster resilience which will be the take-off point for this engagement.

Institutional Arrangement

• For the duration of the contract, the Consultant shall report to the Executive Director, CCC-CCO, and the NSPP Project Manager, and shall work in close coordination with the Project Technical Officer, Deputy Technical Officer, Chief Technical Adviser, the PMU and, if necessary, with relevant government agencies and project partners
• The Consultant should be based in Manila for accessibility and availability should discussions/reporting on progress of activities is required by either the CCC or UNDP.
• Domestic travel contingent upon the scope of work may be required.
• The Consultant will be given access to relevant information necessary for execution of the tasks under his or her assignment; and
• The Consultant will be responsible for providing his or her own working station (i.e. laptop) and must have access to reliable internet connection.

Duration of Contract

The Consultant shall be engaged for a period of about twelve (12) months starting on December 1, 2019 up to November 30, 2020. The period of engagement includes estimated lead time for UNDP and/or Project Implementing Partners to review outputs, give comments, certify approval/acceptance of outputs, etc., as shown in Table 1.

Duty Station

The Consultant is not expected to report on a daily basis to the Project Management Office but shall be available on an on-call basis. Location shall be in the CCC Office at First Residences, Jose P. Laurel St., Malacanang Compound, Manila.

Contract Price and Schedule of Payments

The contract price is all-inclusive, fixed and output-based regardless of extension of the herein specific duration. The Consultant shall receive payments based on the following schedule:

• 15% upon submission and approval of the Inception Report with detailed approach/strategies and the corresponding work plan;
• 15% upon submission and approval of the First Interim Report;
• 15% upon submission and approval of the Second Interim Report;
• 25% upon submission and approval of the Draft Final Report; and
• 30% upon submission and acceptance of the Final Report

Travel outside Manila will be shouldered by UNDP Project.

Duties and Responsibilities

The CCC through the UNDP is procuring the services of a National Consultant for the development of the Philippine Standards for Climate Smart Buildings. The consultant is expected, at the very least, to undertake the following major activities:

• DRAFTING OF THE PHILIPPINE STANDARDS FOR CLIMATE-SMART BUILDINGS
  • Conduct a scoping study on existing policies, frameworks, and best practices both local and international on eco-friendly and resilient buildings. Among the documents that need to be considered include the following:
    • National Structural Code of the Philippines
    • Building Code of the Philippines and its IRR
    • Architectural Code of the Philippines

• Conduct an assessment of the Green Building Code in relation to the applicable IPCC reports imperatives as basis of the ways forward for the development of Philippines Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings. The assessment should also include the following:
  • Global Warming of 1.5 degree Celsius
  • Climate Change and Land
  • The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Said assessment should provide indicate relationships of proposed standards with the emerging risks from said authoritative climate science reports, and should also be considered to develop adaptation and mitigation actions in the form of new or suggested features of the “green buildings”, taking into account the vertical and horizontal approach and circular economy. In effect, this will surface the needed gaps in the Green Building Code.

• Assess criteria set by existing various certifying bodies of green building and incorporate in the standards the viable metrics or indicators resulting from the assessment that will holistically generate interest of stakeholders (e.g. building owners, project contractors/firms, professional societies on the building industry, national and local government leaders, policy makers, civil society, academe) to sustainably adopt and comply with said standards in support of climate smart buildings, securing thereby infrastructural integrity for resilience building of communities and cities highlighting their impact or contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

• Prepare draft of the Philippine Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings based on scoping studies and assessments conducted. This document will be refined after stakeholder consultations to provide an input to the Green Building Code.

• CLIMATE-SMART BUILDINGS STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONS
  • Conduct of multi-stakeholder fora/consultations, round table discussions on the draft standards
  • Conduct Climate-Smart Building Summit
• DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE PHILIPPINE STANDARDS FOR CLIMATE-SMART HOSPITALS. The implementation plan includes the following provisions:
  • Develop appropriate instrument and tools in order to officialize the Green Building Standards, e.g. CCC Resolution, Joint CCC-DPWH Circular
  • Develop national policy oversight, local enforcement, private sector participation and cities compliance
  • Develop ways forward to implement, enforce, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the Green Building Standards
  • Recommend measures to incorporate circular economy, sustainable consumption and production, green jobs, and ecological and environmental stewardship in the sector.
  • Recommend measures to enhance monitoring, reporting, and verification of climate change contributions of establishments to oversight bodies especially the CCC with respect to climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions being implemented by the sector/industry.
  • Recommend measures to strengthen partnerships and institutional arrangements and to intensify advocacy and capacity building strategies to promote inclusive, convergent, and sustainable implementation and compliance with the standards.

• DEVELOPMENT/PRODUCTION of INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS on Philippine Climate-Smart Building Standards

Expected Outputs/Deliverables

• The Contractor, based on the SOW above, shall prepare and submit:
• An Inception Report (IR) or a preliminary document detailing the methodology framework, work plan, timeline, list of national government institutions, civil society stakeholders, academia, private sector to be interviewed or engaged, and other related activities.
• First Interim Report (FIR) which details the results of Activity 1. This report includes the First Draft of the Philippine Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings. Documentations of activities conducted are also required to be attached in the report.
• Second Interim Report (SIR) which details the results of Activities 2 and 3. The SIR also includes the Revised Draft of the Philippine Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings and First Draft of the Implementation Plan. Documentation of activities conducted are required to be attached in the report.
• Draft Final Report (DFR) which integrates the FIR and SIR including Activity 4. The DFR will be presented to the CCC, PMU, and UNDP. The DFR includes the following:
  • Final Draft of Philippine Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings
  • National Implementation Plan of the Philippine Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings
  • Final Draft of Policy Instruments developed (e.g. CCC Resolution, Joint CCC-DPWH Memorandum Circular)
  • Information and knowledge toolkit on Philippine Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings
• Final Report (FR) will be submitted after deliberation of the DFR by the NSPP Project Management Team and the Climate Change Office of the Climate Change Commission.

All deliverables shall undergo a peer review.  The Contractor shall submit its responses on the evaluation to be undertaken and provided by the PMU for each of the abovementioned reports. The Contractor shall present the major findings on the subject deliverables in a consultation meeting to be convened by the NSPP PMU for the purpose. The Contractor may be further required to attend additional consultation meetings to answer questions and clarify issues that may arise from the review of its deliverables. 

Competencies

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;

Required Skills and Experience

Offers will be evaluated based on combined scoring method :

• Technical qualifications = 40%
• Proposed Methodology = 30%
• Financial Proposal =    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):

Applicants who will only receive 70 points  from the assessment of the CV and Methodology will be qualified for the Interview.

Recommended Presentation of Offer

Offerors must upload in one (1) file the documents below at https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=88654

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

1. Duly accomplished Offeror's Letter to UNDP Confirming Insterest and Availability for the IC that indicates the all-inclusive lumpsum 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;
2. Financial Proposal (Annex 2 of Offeror's Letter to UNDP Confirming Insterest and Availability)
3. 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;
4. Brief description of methodology and approaches on how the candidate will deliver the required outputs from the project.   

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