CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE PREPARATION OF RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLANS

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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 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

June 30, 2026 - Publication of the Request for Proposals

July 7, 2026 - Deadline for expressions of interest

July 8, 2026 - Deadline for submission of questions

July 15, 2026 - Planned publication of responses to questions

August 5, 2026 - Deadline for submission of Proposals to IUCN (“Submission Deadline”)

August 14, 2026 - Clarification of Proposals

August 19, 2026 - Planned date for contract award

August 20, 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:

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.

IMPORTANT: Submitted documents must be password-protected so that they cannot be opened and read before the submission deadline. Please use the same password for all submitted documents. After the deadline has passed and within 12 hours, please send the password to the IUCN Contact. This will ensure a secure bid submission and opening process. Please DO NOT email the password before the deadline for Proposal submission.

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

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

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 project team proposed by the Consultant must have qualifications and experience in the water sector in the areas of integrated water resources planning and management, water resources assessment—including strategic water resources planning—as well as expertise in disciplines such as hydraulic engineering, hydrology, hydrogeology, demand management, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and social assessment, and economic and financial assessment. The firm must have experience of similar work in Mozambique in the field of surface and groundwater resources.

The total number of professionals required for this consultancy, including support staff, is estimated at 30 man-months. This must include, as a minimum but not limited to, a key staff roster for this study as illustrated below:

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 non-compliant, 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:

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 sub-contractors, 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:

ARA-Norte, IP, will exercise technical and administrative control over the study through its technical department. Regular working meetings will be held between the Consultant and the Client to discuss the progress of the study and other relevant matters. The time and venue of the meetings will be agreed between the parties. The Consultant shall submit the following reports (one report per basin) to the Client:

In month 14, the Consultant shall submit the Strategic Environmental Assessment for each of the basins.

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