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Company | Cultivating N... |
Industry | Agriculture/A... |
Category | Agriculture |
Location | Accra |
Job Status | Contract |
Salary | GH¢ |
Education | Qualified |
Experience | 5 years |
Job Expires | Feb 07, 2023 |
Contact | ... |
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Company Profile The CNFA is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to stimulating economic growth in the agricultural sector by encouraging entrepreneurship, private enterprise, and market connections. CNFA specializes in promoting private sector investment in training, new technologies and marketing as a means to increase the overall competitiveness of agricultural value chains, increase exports and develop the skills of the rural workforce. The CNFA helps smallholders increase food security and nutrition at the household level through improved agricultural practices, introduction of new varieties, diversification of crop production, food conservation and storage, development of farmers' organizations and strengthening links with markets. Job Description
Section 1: Introduction, Technical Background and Reference Term 1.1: Introduction: PRO-Cashew is a five-year program funded by USDA to promote the cashew value chain in West Africa. PRO-Cashew is implemented by Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA). The program started in 2019 and is implemented in five West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. It aims to increase farmers' productivity and efficiency and boost cashew trade by improving harvesting and post-harvest techniques and supporting supply chain linkages between farmers and agribusinesses in the five countries of intervention. PRO-Cashew initiates this call for proposals to identify a Contractor, specializing in data platform, to provide access to carbon credit through carbon sequestration to cashew producers benefiting from PRO-Cashew interventions in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. From this intervention, the producers will benefit from carbon credit and increase their awareness of the environmental impact. The Contractor must be well aware of the complexity of the carbon credit market access mechanism and develop a specialized data management tool to allow producers and partners to take ownership of their data for informed decision-making and manage performance indicators of the plantation's productivity through the data management tool. In addition, to allow producers to make additional income through carbon credit, this tool would be used to collect data on carbon sequestration in cashew trees. The tool will also determine the amount of carbon sequestered from each plantation annually. Offerors must ensure that CNFA receives their offers in accordance with the instructions, terms, and conditions described in this call for tenders. Failure to comply with the instructions described in this tender may result in the disqualification of a bid. 1.2: Description of the activity: This activity aims to provide partners/beneficiaries a carbon sequestration compensation service through their cashew plantations in the intervention areas of the PRO-Cashew project. The following are the main activities:
1.3. Methodology The methodology adopted to carry out this activity is set out below:
1.4. Deliverables and submission dates
1.5: Period of activity: The period of contracting to achieve the monitoring dashboard is planning to run from April 2023 to August 2023, however the service provider will get into partnership agreement with the project for none disclosure agreements and to assist the collaboration with the PRO-Cashew partners. 1.7. Roles and Responsibilities PRO-Cashew:
Contractor:
1.8. Expected results.
Section 2: Instructions to Offerors 2.1 Deadline and protocol of the offer: Bids must be received no later than February 10, 2023, at 17:00 GMT. Offers must be submitted by email to the following address: procurement@cnfa-procashew.org Please refer to the tender number in any response to this tender. Offers received after the specified time and date will be considered late and will only be considered at CNFA's discretion. The cover page of this solicitation summarizes the important dates in the solicitation process. Applicants must strictly adhere to the deadlines provided to be considered for award. 2.2 Questions: Questions regarding the technical or administrative requirements of this call for tenders can be submitted no later than February 07, 2023, at 17:00 GMT by email to CNFA Pro-Cashew at the following address: procurement@cnfa-procashew.org. Questions and requests for clarification - and responses thereto - that CNFA considers may be of interest to other bidders will be circulated to all addressees of the call for tenders who have expressed an interest in bidding. Any verbal information received from employees of CNFA, or any other entity should not be considered as an official response to any question regarding this call for tenders. 2.3 Evaluation and Award: The bid will be awarded to the bidder with the best bid for the project. Any award resulting from such a call for tenders should be in the form of a contract. This price is subject to the terms and conditions of the PRO-Cashew project as set out in Annex 5. The selected offeror must meet the eligibility requirements and will be determined by a trade-off analysis as the best value based on the application of the evaluation criteria below. The determination of the best value for money will take into account technical and financial proposals, i.e., the best approach and expected results in combination with a reasonable cost. The proposed costs must clearly reflect and correspond to the degree of sophistication of the technical approach. The relative importance of each individual criterion is indicated by the number of points below:
Proposals for best offers are requested. It is intended that the award will be made solely on the basis of these original proposals. However, CNFA reserves the right to carry out any of the following actions: - CNFA may conduct negotiations with and/or seek clarification from any offeror prior to award; - While preference will be given to bidders who can meet all the technical requirements of this tender, CNFA may issue a partial award or divide the award among several Contractors, if this is in the best interest of the Pro-Cashew project; - CNFA may cancel this call for tenders at any time. The award will only be awarded to the entity that submits a proposal in response to this call for tenders. CNFA will not issue awards to different offerors, entities or third parties other than the selected offeror(s). CNFA plans to award a fixed-price contract to the successful offeror. 2.4 Cost proposal: Prices must be presented in CFA francs. Offerors are required to submit the proposed payment terms and proposed payment schedule, if applicable. Failure to submit the proposed payment terms may result in disqualification of the offer. Offers must remain valid for at least sixty (60) calendar days after the submission deadline. Offerors are requested to provide their tenders on official letterhead, in accordance with the format provided in Annex 4 (Annex 4 – Cost proposal ). 2.5 Proposal Format Instructions: All proposals must be formatted in accordance with the following requirements: (a) French or English language (b) Include the name of the person, agency or organization, date, tender number and header or footer page numbers throughout the document. (c) The technical proposal shall be submitted in the format provided in Annex 3 (Annex 3 - Technical Proposal). (d) The cost proposal must be submitted in the format provided in Annex 4 (Annex 4 – Cost proposal) . A full proposal will include the following documents: (a) A proposal checklist (Annex 1 - Bid Checklist and Bid Instructions). (b) A letterhead cover letter from the company, signed by an authorized representative of the bidder (Annex 2 - Cover letter from the offeror). (c) A complete technical proposal in response to the evaluation criteria in section 2.3 and in the format provided in Annex 3 Annex 3 - Technical Proposal). (d) A complete cost proposal in response to the conditions of section 2.4, the evaluation criteria of section 2.3, and in the format provided in Annex 4 Annex 4 – Cost proposal) . (e) A copy of the tenderer's business license/trade register. (f) Proposed Team’s CV describing relevant experiences in relation to data collection and carbon sequestration. (g) Three contacts for referrals from organizations/individuals for which the offeror has successfully completed similar work. Required Skills or Experience 1.6. Contractor's requirement The selected Contractor must have the following profile:
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