By Bonizella Biagini
UNDP’s Multi-country
Programme on Climate Information for Resilient Development and Adaptation to
Climate Change in Africa (CIRDA) established this past year a Letter of
Understanding (LoU) with UN’s Procurement Support Office (PSO) to provide
assistance to partner countries in their efforts to procure hydro
meteorological equipment and services for the implementation of the
Strengthening Climate Information/Early Warning System projects.
The collaboration with the
PSO has continued to deliver benefits and results to the benefit of CIRDA
partner countries.
After consultations with all
national programs with which we are collaborating and input from our technical
advisors, the PSO has launched a Request For Proposals (RFP) for innovative
technical solutions that can help national meteorological and hydrological
services provide cost effective climate change adaptation and early warning
services.
This RFP requests solutions from the private sector for weather and climate monitoring as well as prediction services and will result in a Long Term Agreement (LTA) or LTAs with one or more suppliers that each country can use to more rapidly procure these technical solutions. The LTAs will include innovative automatic weather station hardware, severe weather warning systems, and weather forecasting solutions as well as weather and climate display and alerting platforms. It will also include implementation, training, operation and maintenance service support should the local NMHS require additional service from the supplier(s) in these critical areas of operational execution.
Throughout this summer, the PSO (with CIRDA support) will be managing the RFP process, and we expect to have formal engagements with the private sector suppliers established by late August. National procurements of these innovative solutions could then take place beginning this fall and in time to deliver results against your 2015 work plans.
Useful Links
Find the RFP on the United
Nations Global Marketplace and the UNDP website.
3 comments:
Where can I find the link to the RFP? My company is interested in the project for Liberia.
Dear Andrew,
Here are links to the RFP. Many thanks. The RFP has been posted in UNGM (https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/35371) and UNDP website (http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=23123).
Thank you very much sir. This was useful.
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