Tender Detail

Invitation for Consultancy Service

Bid Announcement No.07

Background

Ethiopia's biodiversity faces severe and ongoing threats from habitat loss, inadequate management of protected areas and buffer zones, illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and human-wildlife conflict (HWC). These interconnected challenges have resulted in declining wildlife populations, ecosystem degradation, and increased pressure on rural communities that depend on natural resources. Therefore, to overcome the problems, a seven years’ project "promoting integrated conservation of wildlife and landscapes for sustainable development of Ethiopia" was launched in collaboration with EBI, EWCA, GEF and UNDP.

The project seeks to achieve the project's objective: To conserve Ethiopia's wildlife and ecosystems by strengthening protected areas, restoring degraded ecosystems, reducing illegal wildlife trafficking, and promoting sustainable landscape management for biodiversity and community resilience. As implementing institution, EBI is working with particular emphasis on Integrated Landscape management and livelihood diversification options and sustainable resource utilization in selected priority areas of PAs and their surroundings. Accordingly, the objectives of this consultancy are to: Identify, Review, Document, and promote traditional practices for sustainable resource use and conservation that can be adapted and supported in the project sites. Therefore, the consultancy will be focused on reviewing literatures on traditional natural resource/biodiversity conservation practices across the country, and compile/document at least three best traditional practices (based on literature review and key informant interview of concerned communities/ experts on the area) which will be adopted for project sites as exemplar for future practices/applications, the practices should be agreed with EBI/project office before commencing, that will be during inception report). Thus, EBI seeks to recruit a National Individual Consultant for its execution.

Minimum Requirements of Qualification & Experience

The consultant in this assignment should be conversant on best practice documentation, socioeconomic studies, protected area management effectiveness. A Master's or higher-level degree in Anthropology, Ethnobiology/Ethnobotany, Sociology, Environment/Natural Resources Management, wildlife ecology, Zoology or related fields and related work experiences/publications; a minimum of 3 years' relevant work experience undertaking and relevant work experience analyzing statutory national environmental proclamations and successfully aligning or integrating them with unwritten, traditional customary laws to draft community resource by-laws are minimum requirements.

1.       Bidding will be conducted in accordance with the open bid tendering procedures contained in the National Competitive Bidding (NCB) as specified in the bidding documents.

2.       The supplier must submit valid business licenses indicating the stream of business in which the supplier is engaged in and must be registered in the Public Procurement and Property Administration Agency's suppliers list.

3.       Valid VAT Registration Certificate and Taxpayer registration.

4.       Tax Clearance Certificate stating the bidder is eligible to participate in any public tender and valid at least at the deadline for submission of bids.

5.       Bidders should deposit a non-refundable Five Hundred Birr (500.00 ETB) to the nearby Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) branch referring Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute on the Account Number 1000005069363, and should come with a bank deposit slip.

6.       Bidders shall furnish bid security in the form of CPO or unconditional and irrevocable bank guarantee with an amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Birr only (ETB 25,000.00) in the name of Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.

7.       Bids shall be valid for a period of sixty (60) plus 28 calendar days after tender opening. Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute has the right to request the Bidder to extend the validity period of the proposal for an additional day.

8.       The sealed bid document must be submitted in separate envelopes i.e., Technical Proposal, Financial Offer, and Bid Security, and one outer envelope duly marking the inner envelopes as "ORIGINAL" and "COPIES" delivered to Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.

9.       All Bids must be delivered to the address below within 10 (Ten calendar days) after the first day of this bid is announced in the newspaper at 10:00 AM. Late bids shall be rejected. Bids will be opened on the same date at 10:30 AM in the presence of the bidders> representatives who choose to attend in person at the address below. If this day is not a calendar day, the next calendar day is the day on which the bids should be closed and opened.

For more information; please contact the below address for clarification.

Address: Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute

Procurement and Finance Executive Officer

Comoros St. (Between Kenyan and Russian Embassies), Addis Ababa

Email: info@ebi.gov.et

Tel: - 011 661 6643/ 011 661 5369

Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute reserves the right to cancel or modify the tender partially or entirely.

Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute