Consultants Qualifications Selection (CQS) Procedures and in a Simplified Technical Proposal (STP) with Agriculture Services Programme for Innovation, Resilience and Extension (ASPIRE) Secretariat

BTDC-ID: 9112

Closing Date: 26-Mar-2021

Consultants Qualifications Selection (CQS) Procedures and in a Simplified Technical Proposal (STP)

Office Address

3rd Floor of the Administrative Department, #200, Preah Norodom Blvd, Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Contact Name

Mr. Yao Ven, Procurement Officer

Phone

097 7666 989

Email

TO: yaoven.168@gmail.com

Website

www.aspirekh.org

Announcement Description

ASPIRE is a 7-year programme of the Royal Government of Cambodia. The Programme became effective with the signing of the Financing Agreement between the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) on 5th March 2015. The Programme Implementation Date is June 2015 and was officially launched on 8-9 October 2015. The Programme Completion Date is 31 March 2022 and the Financial Closing Date is 31 September 2022.

The overall development goal of the ASPIRE Programme is to reduce poverty and to increase resilience of 144,000 poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers in Cambodia by increasing an average household agricultural production value by 20% and value of household assets by 25%. The development objective is to establish an “enhanced Cambodia model of agriculture services which is demonstrated as effective for assisting a diversity of smallholder farmers to contribute to broad-based economic growth through profitable and resilience farm businesses and is adopted as policy by 2021”.

Component 3.1 of ASPIRE finances Provincial Sub-programmes implemented by the Provincial Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (PDAFF) in all 24 Provinces of Cambodia. Through these Provincial Sub-Programmes, to date ASPIRE has facilitated the development of more than 1,920 Business Clusters with almost 70,000 smallholder farmer members. The programme also has been supporting more than 250 Farmer Organizations (FO) across the country and some of these business clusters are formed within FOs, based on specific crop/product or commodity

In 2018, when PADEE, another RGC project funded by IFAD, concluded after 6 years of implementation, support to Improved Group Revolving Funds (IGRFs) formed under PADEE was taken over by ASPIRE. A total of 984 IGRFs were formed across 5 provinces, namely Kandal, Takeo, Kampot, Prey Veng and Svay Rieng. Today most of these IGRFs are still operational, providing credit to members for farming business and other needs with over 30,000 borrowers.

Consultants Qualifications Selection (CQS) Procedures and in a Simplified Technical Proposal (STP)

Career Category: Consultancy
Location: Phnom Penh

Loan and Grant No: IFAD Loan No. 2000000744, IFAD Additional Loan No. 2000002532 ASAP TRUST Grant No. 2000000743, and IFAD Grant No. 2000002531

Assignment Title: Mapping of Famer Oganizations (Farmer Groups, IGRFs, Business Clusters, Livelihood Improvement Groups, ect.

Reference No.: CQS-002-2021/MAFF/ASPIRE/SEC

The past several years also saw many other donors and non-government organizations providing support to these Farmer Organizations. Often this support is not strategically harmonized nor coordinated to optimize effective impact of this assistance. To help streamline this strategic approach, a more cohesive and harmonized approach should be devised to target specific support to individual cooperative with precise needs. Accordingly, ASPIRE is embarking on an undertaking to map out FOs across the country, including ASPIRE supported Business Clusters and IGRFs. It is envisaged that the mapping of these farmer organizations will provide strategic information and details on the management and operations of these entities, including specific production/commodity data and capacity. This information will be beneficial to development partners, private sectors and public institutions to integrate into their development planning and interventions, business connections and relationship building and innovative extension technology support. Therefore, ASPIRE is calling for applications from interested consulting firms/teams to conduct this farmer organization mapping exercise.

A consulting firm/NGO will be selected in accordance with the Consultants Qualifications Selection (CQS) procedures and in a Simplified Technical Proposal (STP) format will be applied in evaluating the proposals as specified in procedures set out in the IFAD Procurement Handbook Version September 2010 and in consistency with the RGC Procurement Manual (PM) for Externally Financed Project in Cambodia Updated Version Dec 2019.

Interested consulting firm/NGO must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services in responding to TOR (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). The consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.

Description of the services to be provided and the required qualifications are included in the Terms of Reference. These are available from the ASPIRE Website: and from the address provided in the contact details.

Interested consulting firm/NGO are requested to submit or send Expressions of Interest (EOI) to the address below (in person, or by mail) by the closing date at Cambodia local time: 5:00 PM.

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