RFPs: Climate Risk Assessment for the Integrated Water and Energy Resources Program in Libreville, Gabon

The Water and Urban program at GCA address barriers to integrating adaptation into water supply and urban resilience projects. It provides analysis, technical support, climate risk assessments, design guidelines, investment options, and capacity building. In this context, the Water and Urban program at GCA supports climate resilience into investments, by addressing key barriers to integrating adaptation into water and urban resilience projects. GCA delivers upstream analysis and technical support to develop information and metrics on climate hazards, assets exposure, vulnerability hotspot and finally adaptation and resilience options that are financially viable.

GCA is seeking a qualified firm to conduct Climate Risk Assessments for the Integrated Water and Energy Resources Program in Libreville, Gabon. The expected services to be provided under this assignment include conducting climate risk assessments, identifying and appraising adaptation and resilience options. Additionally, the firm will enhance knowledge and capacity for climate-resilient water services planning by building the capacity of local stakeholders. The total duration of this assignment is estimated at up to 10 months.

Selection Criteria

• Professional and Legal Capacity
  • Criterion
    • Bidders must be a registered entity in their home country regulatory agency, as and where applicable, for a minimum of 1 year.
    • All Bidders must have a current team of at least 5 staff members.
  • Documentary evidence
    • Provide a copy of the statutes/registration of the legal entity (in case of a joint proposal the company registration shall be submitted for each partner) and evidence concerning the appointment of the persons authorized to represent the Bidder in dealings with third parties and in legal proceedings.
• Financial and Economic Standing
  • Criterion
    • Have financial resources and overall financial capabilities to perform with sufficient financial and economic standing to guarantee continuous and satisfactory performance throughout the envisaged lifetime of the contract.
    • Financial capability tests will be run (Any of the two tests below will be applied to judge financial soundness):
      • Liquidity: Current assets/Current liabilities for the last 1 year must be ≥ 1 (rounding from 0.9 and above), or
      • Unqualified audit opinion with no going concern warning.
  • Documentary evidence
    • Audited financial statements signed by registered auditor(s), annual reports, or other management approved statements/reports showing the liquidity (assets/liabilities) of the bidder for 1 year in the last 2 fiscal years, which must be submitted in English, or
    • Unqualified audit opinion with no going concern warning, which must be submitted in English.
• Technical Standing
  • Criteria
    • At least five years’ experience providing technical assistance related to the assignment.
  • Documentary evidence
    • The Technical Proposal contains a summary highlighting the experience above.

Language

• The proposals, all correspondence and documents related to the RFP exchanged by the bidder and GCA, must be written in English.
• Supporting documents and printed literature that the bidder provides may be in another language, provided they are accompanied by an accurate translation into English.

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