| Overview : Background Since 2014, the United Nations Development Program through its Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) Project, has been supporting the Philippine Government in articulating the financial resources it needs to maintain a healthy biodiversity portfolio in-country. In particular, BIOFIN in collaboration with Department of Natural Resources Biodiversity Management Bureau has conducted the following assessments: 1) Policy and Institutional Review (PIR); 2) Public and Private Biodiversity Expenditure Review (PPBER); 3) Assessment of financial needs (cost and gap analysis of implementing Philippine Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP)). These assessments significantly contributed to the development of a Biodiversity Finance Plan. Based on insights gained from the results of the three BIOFIN assessments, this Plan acknowledges the importance of tapping additional financing to support the biodiversity agenda of the Philippines, mainly through its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP), referred to henceforth in this Plan as the Philippine Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP). This Plan is cognizant of the parallel challenges that could not be addressed by generating financing alone: thus, the Plan transcends the focus on generating additional resources and also identifies a range of “finance solutions” that leverage finance, fiscal and economic tools and strategies to improve the outcome of biodiversity objectives in the country. Financing solutions include a range of transformative actions: generating more financing to fund the PBSAP or associated planning documents; appropriate attribution of biodiversity expenditures in the budget; attaining cost-effective budget execution by eradicating overlaps in biodiversity functions; eradicating expenditures that continue to or aggravate dissipation of biodiversity resources; and paving the groundwork for a responsive policy environment through greater awareness on biodiversity and biodiversity financing and enhancing institutional support towards monitoring of PBSAP. One of the finance solutions identified to mobilize resources is a mobile gaming application. Developed in 2020, a mobile gaming application called “Animal Town” is a simple, casual simulation game where the user plays as a new recruit in a biodiversity advocates team to help a group of talking animals manage a town to efficiently conserve biodiversity. It features quests (dispatch, scenario and daily) and biodiversity trivia to inform and educate its users. Revenues generated by the game app and its peripherals (in-game purchase and ads) will be directed to priority biodiversity conservation projects of the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The UNDP shall donate the mobile game app to the DENR particularly to the BMB. Given restrictions to government vis-a-vis resource mobilization, the BMB and the UNDP shall select an NGO partner to manage revenues generated by and promote the game application. Pre-requisite: MOU/partnership between NGO and DENR-BMB for management of game app revenue. --- For complete details, please see the attached Terms of Reference. --- SELECTION PROCESS
UNDP will review proposals through:
a) Technical review of eligible proposals;
b) Ranking of the eligible proposals based on the assessment criteria outlined in the previous section to identify highest ranking proposal; and
c) round of clarification (if necessary) with the highest scored proposal. SUBMISSION PROCESS
Applicants shall bear all costs related to proposal preparation and submission.
Applicants must submit their proposals in one envelope to: bids.ph@undp.org
Attention: CFP-052-PHL-2022 – Mobile Game Application Revenue Management The following documents must be submitted in order for the submission to be considered:
a) Filled in Request (RFI)1 for Information form with all relevant documents;
b) Filled in Capacity Assessment (CACHE) form with all relevant documents;
c) Technical proposal including previous experience, methodology, workplan and CVs of key personnel
d) Financial proposal including Itemized cost estimates
Only one submission per organization is allowed. Once the application is complete and submitted, revised versions of proposal documents will not be accepted.
Proposals, with supporting documents, should be submitted by July 15, 2022
For additional questions about the Call for Proposals Guidelines or application forms, please e-mail: procurement.ph@undp.org
UNDP reserves the right not to fund any proposals arising from this Call for Proposals. SCHEDULE OF COMPLETION OF CALL FOR PROPOSAL
Below is an estimated timeline for this Call for Proposals.
7/1/2022 Call for Proposal opens and relevant documents are shared with NGOs.
7/15/2022 Deadline for organizations to submit proposals under this Call.
7/30/2022 Assessment and selection processes will take place.
8/7/2022 Selected app OTHER INFORMATION
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In responding to this Call for Proposals, UNDP requires all Proposers to conduct themselves in a professional, objective and impartial manner, and they must at all times hold UNDP’s interests paramount. Proposers must strictly avoid conflicts with other assignments or their own interests, and act without consideration for future work. All Proposers found to have a conflict of interest shall be disqualified. Without limitation on the generality of the above, Proposers, and any of their affiliates, shall be considered to have a conflict of interest with one or more parties in this solicitation process, if they:
1) Are or have been associated in the past, with a firm or any of its affiliates which have been engaged UNDP to provide services for the preparation of the design, Terms of Reference, cost analysis/estimation, and other documents to be used in this competitive selection process;
2) Were involved in the preparation and/or design of the programme/project related to the services requested under this Call for Proposals; or
3) Are found to be in conflict for any other reason, as may be established by, or at the discretion of, UNDP. In the event of any uncertainty in the interpretation of what is potentially a conflict of interest, proposers must disclose the condition to UNDP and seek UNDP’s confirmation on whether or not such conflict exists. | 
