Nutrition sensitive agricultural practices and food systems

1. Contracting authority

1.1 Official name and address of the contracting authority

Authority of need/Authority of assignment : Swiss Agency for Development and Coorperation (SDC)
Authority of procurement/Organizer : Global Programme Food Security,  Freiburgstrasse 130,  3006  Bern,  Switzerland,  Fax:  +41 31 325 93 62,  E-mail:  gpfs@eda.admin.ch,  URL www.deza.admin.ch

1.2 Offers should be sent to the following address

PLEASE DO NOT OPEN
Swiss Agency for Development and Coorperation (SDC)Global Programme Food Security,  attn Secretariat Global Programme Food Security (GPFS),  Freiburgstrasse 130,  3006  Bern,  Switzerland

1.3 Desired deadline for questions in written form

26.03.2014

Remarks : No information is given by telephone. Any question can be made by 26.03.2014 anonymously in the forum space at www.simap.ch. Questions submitted late cannot be answered. Answers will be published on www.simap.ch by 04.04.2014. Bidders are themselves responsible for downloading the answers from SIMAP and for taking them into consideration in the preparation of the bids.

1.4 Deadline for submitting offers

Date: 23.04.2014, Specific deadlines and formal requirements:  Bids contain all documentation in accordance with Section 5 Contents of the Bid and are to be submitted as follows:
a. one original signed hard copy labelled “Original”
b. two signed copies labelled, “Signed Copy”
c. one data storage device (e.g. CD, DVD or Memory Stick) of all documents.

1.6 Type of contracting authority: Confederation (Central federal administration)

1.7 Type of procedure: Open procedure

1.8 Type of commission: Order for services

1.9 According to GATT/WTO agreement, respectively treaty: No

2. Objects of procurement

2.1 Type of commission for services

Other sevices
Service category CPC:  [27] Other services

2.2 Project title of the acquisition: Nutrition sensitive agricultural practices and food systems

2.3 Reference / project no.: SOUK_Nutrition

2.4 Common Procurement Vocabulary

2.5 Detailed task description

Background
Hunger and malnutrition are still a big challenge in today’s world. In 2013, according to the Report on the State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013, over 850 million people suffer from hunger, two billion people from micronutrient deficiencies and 1.4 billion are overweight. More than one third of young children suffer from under- or malnutrition with devastating consequences on their health, learning capacities, future earning potential and economic development for whole societies.
Increased efforts are needed and shall address the food system in a comprehensive manner. Therefore, new initiatives shall contribute to find solutions how nutrition can be improved through a dietary diversity based on nutrition sensitive agriculture and processing, education and information, health, water and sanitation measures.
The Project or initiative shall be relevant at global level and have a clear link to policy frameworks at continental or global level. Research projects are not considered.
Objectives
The project/initiative shall ultimately contribute to achieve Component 3 of GPFS Strategy 2013-2017: Stable access to sufficient nutritious food, Target 3.1: Support improved dietary diversity.
The proposal shall consider the following approaches:
•Promote diverse and nutrition sensitive agriculture and processing for dietary diversity without focussing entirely on (bio-)fortification
•Provide and implement solutions where nutrition sensitive agriculture, processing and information measures result in improved nutrition, focussing on children and women
•Promote the dual outcome of an environmentally sound and diverse agricultural produc-tion system: providing nutritious diets and being resilient to climate change.
Finances and Duration
SDC’s contribution will indicatively range between CHF 600’000 – CHF 1 Million per year.
The first phase of the project shall last 3 years with a possible extension to a second phase of another 3 years.

2.6 Location where service is supplied: Global

2.7 Division into lots?: No

2.8 Will variants be accepted?: No

2.9 Are partial offers permitted?: No

2.10 Implementation date: Start  01.01.2015  and finish  31.12.2017

3. Conditions

3.2 Deposits/guarantees: None

3.5 Consortium of bidders: Consortia of bidders are permitted. If a bidder participates in the procedure as part of a consortium, he must identify a member of the consortium who performs the lead function (deputisation, co-ordination). The bidder lists all members and their roles. All members of the consortium together bear responsibility for the bid.

3.6 Subcontractor: Subcontractors are permitted. If the bidder engages a subcontractor to provide certain services, the bidder bears full responsibility for the provided services. He lists all subcontractors involved with their assigned roles.

3.7 Suitability criteria: based on the criteria given in the documentation

3.8 Evidence required: based on the evidence required in the documentation

3.9 Award criteria: based on the criteria given in the documentation

3.10 Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation

Costs: none

3.11 Languages for offers: English

3.12 Validity of offers: 180 days after deadline for receipt of offers

3.13 Supplying source of the tendering documentation

at www.simap.ch
Languages of documents :  English
Further information for obtaining the tendering documentation : The documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned can be downloaded from the platform www.simap.ch under: Running procedures, Confederation, Invitations to tender. In order to do so, you first have to register in the mentioned project. You will then be able to log in and use the password that you will have been sent by e-mail to download the documentation desired.

4. Other information

4.1 Conditions for countries not party to the WTO agreement: None

4.2 Terms of business: General Conditions of Business (GCB) for Project Implementations Mandates, July 2012

4.3 Negotiations: remain reserved

4.4 Basic procedural principles: The client only awards public commissions for services in Switzerland to tenderers who comply with job security regulations and the conditions of work for employees, and provide equal payment for men and women.

4.5 Additional information: The tender proceeds in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Ordinance on Public Procurement (FOPP). There is no right of appeal.