Consultancy for hydrogeological assessment to reinforce the water supply in the Districts of Beira and Dondo-ARA Centro

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Project Reference: P04620

Donor reference: AVMZ-00020

IUCN is a membership union composed exclusively of government agencies and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to work jointly.

Established in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, drawing on the knowledge, resources and reach of over 1,400 member organisations and some 15,000 experts. It is a leading provider of data, assessments and analysis on conservation. Its broad membership base enables the IUCN to act as an incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards. IUCN provides a neutral space in which various stakeholders, including governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations and others, can work together to develop and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development.

Working with a wide range of partners and supporters, IUCN implements a broad and diverse portfolio of conservation projects around the world. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects aim to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being.

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The District of Dondo is located on the left bank of the Púngue River. It is bordered to the north by the District of Muanza, to the west by the District of Nhamatanda, to the south by the District of Búzi and the City of Beira, and to the east by the Indian Ocean.

The district covers an area of approximately 4,028 km².

According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE, 2017), the population of the City ofmBeira and the District of Dondo is estimated at approximately 607,736 and 198,535

m inhabitants, respectively.

Monitoring water resources enables us to quantify their availability, uses and demand, assess their variability over time and space, and evaluate the potential impact of human activities and climate change on them. It also provides the data required for the development of water infrastructure projects, water supply, irrigation, river navigation, effluent discharge and leisure activities. Furthermore, it supports measures for flood and drought control, as well as the planning, restoration, preservation and conservation of these resources. This contributes to the economic development of communities within the river basin.

The Mainstreaming and Integrated Water Resources Management approach for More Resilient Basins in Mozambique \[MozWateR\] is a geared project towards achieving water security and safety by supporting Mozambique in developing its capacity to implement effective integrated water resources management (IWRM) in key basins in the northern and central water administration regions and improve capacity at a national level. This project is a collaborative effort where joint action on the ground will produce critical lessons from tried best practices that inform policy which strengthen business approaches, institutions, and rules around the sustainable use of land and water. MozWateR is being implemented collaboratively with the Northern Regional Water Administration (ARA-Norte), Central Regional Water Administration (ARA-Centro) and the National Directorate for Water Resources Management (DNGRH) as primary Implementing Partners (IPs) to combat several challenges in the national water sector.

2.1. During the course of this procurement, i.e. from the publication of this RfP to the award of a contract, you may not discuss this procurement with any IUCN employee or representative other than the following contact. You must address all correspondence and questions to the contact, including your Proposal.

IUCN Contact: TendersMozWaterProject@iucn.org

3.1. This timetable is indicative and may be changed by IUCN at any time. If IUCN decides that changes to any of the deadlines are necessary, we will publish this on our website and contact you directly if you have indicated your interest in this procurement (see Section 3.2).

DATE-ACTIVITY

July 20, 2026-Publication of the Request for Proposals

July 27, 2026-Deadline for expressions of interest

July 28, 2026-Deadline for submission of questions

August 04, 2026-Planned publication of responses to questions

August 20, 2026-Deadline for submission of Proposals to IUCN (“Submission Deadline”)

August 27, 2026-Clarification of Proposals

August 31, 2026-Planned date for contract award

September 7, 2026-Expected contract start date

3.2. Please email the IUCN contact to express your interest in submitting a Proposal by the deadline stated above. This will help IUCN to keep you updated regarding the procurement.

4.1. Your Proposal must consist of the following four separate documents:

 Signed Declaration of Undertaking (see Attachment 2)

 Pre-Qualification Information (see Section 4.3 below)

 Technical Proposal (see Section 4.4 below)

 Financial Proposal (see Section 4.5 below)

Proposals must be prepared in English.

4.2. Your Proposal must be submitted by email to the IUCN Contact (see Section 2). The subject heading of the email shall be \[RfP Reference – bidder name\]. The bidder name is the name of the company/organisation on whose behalf you are submitting the Proposal, or your own surname if you are bidding as a self-employed consultant. Your Proposal must be submitted in PDF format. You may submit multiple emails suitably annotated, e.g. Email 1 of 3, if attached files are too large to suit a single email transmission. You may not submit your Proposal by uploading it to a file-sharing tool.

Please DO NOT email the password before the deadline for Proposal submission.

4.3. *Pre-Qualification Criteria*

IUCN will use the following Pre-Qualification Criteria to determine whether you have the capacity to provide the required goods and/or services to IUCN. Please provide the necessary information in a single, separate document.

5.1. *Completeness*

IUCN will firstly check your Proposal for completeness. Incomplete Proposals will not be considered further.

5.2. *Pre-Qualification Criteria*

Only Proposals that meet all of the pre-qualification criteria will be evaluated.

5.3. *Technical Evaluation*

5.3.1. *Scoring Method*

Your Proposal will be assigned a score from 0 to 10 for each of the technical evaluation criteria, such that ‘0’ is low and ‘10’ is high.

5.3.2. *Minimum Quality Thresholds*

Proposals that receive a score of ‘0’ for any of the criteria will not be considered further.

5.3.3. *Technical Score*

Your score for each technical evaluation criterion will be multiplied with the respective relative weight (see Section 4.4) and these weighted scores added together to give your Proposal’s overall technical score.

5.4. *Financial Evaluation and Financial Score*s

The financial evaluation will be based upon the full total price you submit. Your Financial Proposal will receive a score calculated by dividing the lowest Financial Proposal that has passed the minimum quality thresholds (see Section 5.3.2) by the total price of your Financial Proposal.

Thus, for example, if your Financial Proposal is for a total of EURO 100 and the lowest Financial Proposal is EURO 80, you will receive a financial score of 80/100 = 80%

5.5. *Total Score*

Your Proposal’s total score will be calculated as the weighted sum of your technical score and your financial score.

6.1. IUCN is using the Open Procedure for this procurement. This means that the contracting opportunity is published on IUCN’s website and open to all interested parties to take part, subject to the conditions in Section 7 below.

6.2. You are welcome to ask questions or seek clarification regarding this procurement. Please email the IUCN Contact (see Section 2), taking note of the deadline for submission of questions in Section 3.1.

6.3. All Proposals must be received by the submission deadline in Section 3.1 above. Late Proposals will not be considered. All Proposals received by the submission deadline will be

evaluated by a team of three or more evaluators in accordance with the evaluation criteria stated in this RfP. No other criteria will be used to evaluate Proposals. The contract will be

awarded to the bidder whose Proposal received the highest Total Score. IUCN does, however, reserve the right to cancel the procurement and not award a contract at all.

6.4. IUCN will contact the bidder with the highest-scoring Proposal to finalise the contract. We will contact unsuccessful bidders after the contract has been awarded and provide detailed feedback. The timetable in Section 3.1 gives an estimate of when we expect to have completed the contract award, but this date may change depending on how long the evaluation of Proposals takes.

8.1. IUCN follows the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The

information you submit to IUCN as part of this procurement will be treated as confidential and shared only as required to evaluate your Proposal in line with the procedure explained in this RfP, and for the maintenance of a clear audit trail. For audit purposes, IUCN is required to retain your Proposal in its entirety for 10 years after then end of the resulting contract and make this available to internal and external auditors and donors as and when requested.

8.2. In the Declaration of Undertaking (Attachment 2) you need to give IUCN express permission to use the information you submit in this way, including personal data that forms part of your Proposal. Where you include personal data of your employees (e.g. CVs) in your Proposal, you need to have written permission from those individuals to share this information with IUCN, and for IUCN to use this information as indicated in 8.1. Without these permissions, IUCN will not be able to consider your Proposal.

If you have a complaint or concern regarding the propriety of how a competitive process is or has been executed, then please contact procurement@iucn.org. Such complaints or concerns will be treated as confidential and are not considered in breach of the above restrictions on communication (Section 2.1).

The contract will be based on IUCN’s template in Attachment 3, the terms of which are not negotiable. They may, however, be amended by IUCN to reflect particular requirements from the donor funding this particular procurement.

Attachment 1 Specification of Requirements / Terms of Reference

Attachment 2 Declaration of Undertaking (select 2a for companies or 2b for self-employed as applicable to you)

Attachment 3 Contract Template

1.1. A detailed description of the services and/or goods to be provided can be found in Attachment 1.

The Consultant must be able to provide a team with the necessary qualifications to carry out these consultancy services. Experience in the SADC region, particularly Mozambique,is advantageous. The team must include the following key specialists, amongst others:

a) A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Water Resources Management, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Hydrogeology, or a related field;

b) At least fifteen (15) years of professional experience in the field of water resources management;

c) Proven experience and demonstrated knowledge in preparing studies and projects related to water resource assessment and availability;

d) Experience in designing and implementing water supply and sanitation systems, including pumping stations;

e) Extensive experience in establishing water resource monitoring networks and hydrological modelling;

f) Sound knowledge of water quality standards in accordance with Mozambican legislation and a thorough understanding of applicable environmental regulations;

g) A minimum of five years' experience serving as Team Leader on multidisciplinary projects;

h) Fluency in Portuguese and a working knowledge of English

a) A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Hydrogeology, Geophysics or Applied Geology;

b) At least ten (10) years’ experience in geological mapping, hydrogeology and geophysical surveys, and determining the hydraulic characteristics of aquifers;

c) Development of databases for the Water Resources and Information Management Systems sector.

d) Development of GIS-based products for end users;

e) Relevant work experience in environmental management and water quality analysis;

f) Proficiency in map production;

g) Extensive knowledge of hydrogeological modelling;

h) Fluency in Portuguese and a working knowledge of English.

1\. Carry out the installation in 100% of the designated boreholes.

2\. Conduct initial manual measurements using a water level sounder as a reference.

3\. Configure the reading intervals and synchronise the system clock.

4\. Test data download procedures and telemetry functionality, where applicable.

5\. Provide a one-day training session for five (5) technicians from the contracting organisation.

7.1. To participate in this procurement, you are required to submit a Proposal, which fully complies with the instructions in this RfP and the Attachments.

7.1.1. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have submitted a complete and fully

compliant Proposal.

7.1.2. Any incomplete or incorrectly completed Proposal submission may be deemed noncompliant, and as a result you may be unable to proceed further in the procurement process.

7.1.3. IUCN will query any obvious clerical errors in your Proposal and may, at IUCN’s sole discretion, allow you to correct these, but only if doing so could not be perceived as giving you an unfair advantage.

7.2. In order to participate in this procurement, you must meet the following conditions:

 Free of conflicts of interest

 Registered on the relevant professional or trade register of the country in which you are established (or resident, if self-employed)

 In full compliance with your obligations relating to payment of social security contributions and of all applicable taxes

 Not been convicted of failing to comply with environmental regulatory requirements or other legal requirements relating to sustainability and environmental protection

 Not bankrupt or being wound up

 Never been guilty of an offence concerning your professional conduct

 Not involved in fraud, corruption, a criminal organisation, money laundering, terrorism, or any other illegal activity.

7.3. You must complete and sign the Declaration of Undertaking (see Attachment 2).

7.4. If you are participating in this procurement as a member of a joint venture, or are using subcontractors, submit a separate Declaration of Undertaking for each member of the joint venture and sub-contractor, and be clear in your Proposal which parts of the goods/services are provided by each partner or sub-contractor.

7.5. Each bidder shall submit only one Proposal, either individually or as a partner in a joint venture.

In case of joint venture, one company shall not be allowed to participate in two different joint ventures in the same procurement nor shall a company be allowed to submit a Proposal both on its behalf and as part of a joint venture for the same procurement. A bidder who submits or participates in more than one Proposal (other than as a subcontractor or in cases of alternatives that have been permitted or requested) shall cause all the Proposals with the bidder’s participation to be disqualified.

7.6. By taking part in this procurement, you accept the conditions set out in this RfP, including the following:

 It is unacceptable to give or offer any gift or consideration to an employee or other representative of IUCN as a reward or inducement in relation to the awarding of a contract.

Such action will give IUCN the right to exclude you from this and any future procurements, and to terminate any contract that may have been signed with you.

 Any attempt to obtain information from an employee or other representative of IUCN concerning another bidder will result in disqualification.

 Any price fixing or collusion with other bidders in relation to this procurement shall give IUCN the right to exclude you and any other involved bidder(s) from this and any future

procurements and may constitute a criminal offence.

The Timetable below summarises the chronological order of deliverables and indicates milestones at which IUCN will pay the Consultant.

Deliverable-Milestone payment

Submission of the Initial Report-20%

Submission of the Interim Report-20%

Submission of the final report draft-20%

Submission and approval of the Final Report-40%