International Consultant - Energy efficiency cook stoves and copra dryer
Procurement Process
IC - Individual contractor
Office
VANUATU - VANUATU
Deadline
29-Sep-22
Published on
14-Sep-22
Reference Number
95679
Overview
The BRANTV project, implemented by the Department of Energy (DoE) with support from UNDP, builds on existing efforts to provide support to rural communities in Vanuatu, especially in terms of energy access, sustainable energy and green growth targets as represented in the updated National Energy Road Map 2016-2030. With some limited efforts been initiated to promote EE cook stoves and copra dryers, more training and support is expected to increase the quality and efficiency of the local production at lower price and reach wider end-user, hence leading to environmental, social, health and economic benefits. Firewood or fuel wood are widely used as fuel by almost all social categories in the rural communities, even in urban areas of Vanuatu for several reasons, among others, lack of access to clean, affordable and efficient energy. As a result, most of the communities more specifically those living in the rural areas depend on biomass sources however, the availability, cost and quality of wood varies with geographical locations. Since firewood has sometimes to be collected at significant distances from villages, in most cases women are seen as the main person responsible for collecting fire-wood and cooking exposing them more than men to health risk from severe pains and inhaling toxic smoke and burns from open fire. The BRANTV project seeks to specifically address part of these challenges by introducing and promoting EE cook stoves which will help reduce the work and risk associated with the amount of fire-wood used and open fire cooking. It is important to reduce the smoke of burning fire (smokeless) rather than the normal practice of burning more firewood (with more smoke) during the cooking process. EE copra dryers will also help produce consistently high-quality premium copra. Given the popularity of copra production in rural areas and the need for more quality copra production, Vanuatu’s coconut industry will be shifting more to increase its value-added products in the future. Hopefully, with the introduction of EE cook stoves and copra dryers at the household and community level, which is already an accepted activity for local men and women in Vanuatu and the existing livelihood approach, the project seeks to promote the use and improve the production and marketing.
Objective of the Assignment The objective of this consultancy service is to support the BRANTV project and the Department of Energy to:
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Scope of Work The overall scope of this consultancy service shall be as indicated herein but not limited to the following tasks: The consultant (or consultancy firm) shall:
About 120 participants will be selected from BRANTV RE demonstration sites to attend training and workshops. The detailed plan will have to be communicated to and approved by DoE and BRANTV project team 2 weeks prior the workshop.
Module 1: The first module involves the planning, organization and conduct of a roadshow to demonstrate energy efficient cook stoves to villagers to promote their sale and use. The planning process will include vetting of villages to determine those most likely to be receptive to energy efficient cook stoves as well as those most important to promote such stoves to due to deforestation/ecological issues. Module 2: The second module involves the fabrication and selling of energy efficient cook stoves (to replace open earth cooking) to 7,200 households and use of stoves three meals per day by these households. Those artisans that do well in mastering EE cook stove fabrication capacity building and show seriousness of purpose in continuing to fabricate cook stoves for sale will be provided with a set of basic tools and materials by the consultant/ Consortium Firm to fabricate their cook stove. Each artisan (target of 120 participants) who attended the training has a target to produce 60 cook stoves each.
Expected Output and Deliverables
Based on the scope of work outlined above, the following outputs are expected from the consultant and must be completed within the indicative time frame set out in the table below from the effective date (signing) of the contract.
Key Deliverables The key deliverables are as provided:
Institutional and Logistics Arrangements The Communications and Visibility Consultant will work closely with the PMU team, the Communications Officer of the DOE and the Electrification team. The consultant will directly report to Director, DOE in overall and to the BRANTV Project Manager in day to day matters. The PMU and DoE will provide support to ensure deliverables are achieved.
Duration of the Work
Duty Station The consultant or consortium firm will work from home based but require to travel to conduct trainings and undertake fabrication of cook stoves and install copra dryer on the island of Santo.
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COMPETENCIES
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REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The consultant (or Expert/Lead of consultancy firm) should have: Education: Experience:
Skills
Language requirements
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments
Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Lump Sum Amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fee, travel costs, living allowance (if any work is to be done outside the IC´s duty station) and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment. The contract price will fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payments will be done upon completion of the deliverables/outputs and as per below percentages:
In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources
The consultant shall estimate and include their costs of travel and stay in Santo, Vanuatu including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses in its financial proposal.
Only candidates which are responsive and compliant will be evaluated. Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following Cumulative analysis methodology. The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%). and financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment.
Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points for technical criteria would be considered for the Interview and Financial Evaluation.
Shortlisted candidates shall be called for an interview which will be used to confirm and/or adjust the technical scores awarded based on documentation submitted.
Documentation required Interested individual consultants or consortium firm 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:
Note: Successful individual or consortium firm will be required to provide proof of medical insurance coverage before commencement of contract for the duration of the assignment.
Incomplete and joint proposals may not be considered. Consultants with whom there is further interest will be contacted. The successful consultant shall opt to sign an Individual Contract or a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA) through its company/employer with UNDP.
Annexes
For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to pts.fj@undp.org Please visit UNDP job site link:UNDP Jobs and find the Job title under Climate & Disaster Resiliance section to submit your online application
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