Date: 21st September,2022
PROJECT NO. 4429
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR CONDUCTING BASE LINE SURVEY
1. The Prime Minister’s Office, Policy, Coordination and Parliament has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and intends to apply a part of the financing for the execution of the consulting services assignment described in paragraph 3 below.
2. The use of any IFAD financing shall be subject to IFAD’s no-objection, pursuant to the terms. and conditions of the financing agreement, as well as IFAD’s rules, policies and procedures. IFAD and its officials, agents and employees shall be held harmless from and against all suits, proceedings, claims, demands, losses and liability of any kind or nature brought by any party in connection with Agriculture and Fisheries Development Programme (AFDP).
3. The AFDP’s overall objective of is to “contribute to inclusive food systems for improved livelihoods, food security, nutrition and resilience”. |n this regard, its development objective is to “enhance sustainable productivity, climate resilience and commercialization of selected crop seeds, fisheries and aquaculture”, while devoting particular attention to women empowerment and youth participation. This will be measured by four core indicators, namely: (i) Percentage of target households reporting increased average annual net income by 30 percent; (ii) Percentage of households reporting an average 25 percent increase in production of maize, beans, sunflower, seaweed and fish; (iii) at least 60 percent of women 15-49 years of age who consume at least 5 out of 10 food groups; and (iv) at least 40 percent of households reporting adoption of environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient technologies and practice by adopting a food systems approach, AFDP looks beyond increasing productivity of crops and fisheries, and takes an integrated way to address multiple goals in different parts of the food system (inputs, production, post-harvest, value addition, marketing and consumption) and in geographically flexible ways (e.g. national, sub-national, regional, district and local).
The Programme intends to contribute to four core sustainable food system objectives:
(i) Ensuring food security and provide healthy, balanced and nutritious diets that contribute to health for all:
(ii) Providing decent livelihoods and jobs for all food system actors, notably small hokers, women and youth;
(iii) Contributing to inclusive governance and reducing inequality between stakeholders and between territories; and
4. The client now invites proposals (*proposals*) from shortlisted consulting firms to provide the following services to Conduct Baseline Survey. More details on these services are provided in the terms of reference — Section V1. This request for proposals (“RFP”) has to be Publicly Advertised through UNDB, Tanzania National Procurement System ( TANePS),and News Paper .
5. The services, and the contract expected to be awarded, are divided into the following phases: { “N/A”}.
6. A consultant will be selected using Quality and Cost Based Selection evaluation procedure in accordance with the IFAD Procurement Handbook dated 2021, which is available at www. ifad.org/project-procurement. The selection process, as described, may include a reference check, prior to contract award.
7. The RFP includes the following sections:
Part 1 — Proposal and Selection Procedures
Section I; Letter of Invitation Requesting Proposals (LOI)
Section Il; Instructions to Consultants {ITC}
Section Ill; Proposal Data Sheet (PDS)
Section IV; Qualification and Evaluation Criteria
Section VA; Technical Proposal Forms
Section VB; Financial Proposal Forms
Section VI; Terms of Reference
Part 2 – Conditions of Contract and Contract Forms
Section VII; Contract Agreement and General Conditions of Contract (GCC)
Section VIII; Special Conditions of Contract (SCC), Annexes to Contract and Contract Forms
Section IX; Revised IFAD Policy on Preventing Fraud and Corruption in its Activities and Operations
8. A pre-proposal conference will not be held as described in the proposal data sheet PDS”), Section III of this RFP.
9. Proposals must be delivered through Tanzania national electronic procurement System (TANePS) accessed www.taneps.go.tz and in the manner specified in the PDS ITC 20.3, 20.5 and 20.7 no later than 12:00 HRS of 12″ October, 2022.
10. Consultants should be aware that submission will be online through TANePS.
11. Consultants are required to register on TANePS and pay tender participation fee R as indicated on TANePS to be able to participate in this selection process
Yours Sincerely,
Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Policy, Coordination and Parliament
