Request for Proposal Technical Assessment Assignment Consultant

Proposal Format

Bidders are free to use their own format for the technical and financial proposals. Both must be entirely separate and there may be no financial data included in the technical proposal. Financial proposals must be submitted in USD. All payments will be made by SNV in USD.

Contact Points

If bidders have any questions they must be addressed to Vathana Keomany at SNV email:   

Selection Process

Technical and financial proposals will be reviewed separately. Only those Technical proposals that pass the minimum score of 50% will move forward for financial review. The reviews are a closed process and not open to the public.

The Technical scores will be awarded as follows:

Criteria

Maximum score

Technical : 70

• Water/Irrigation engineer or equivalent
• Experience in low-cost water solutions for productive use
• Experience in water resource assessment

Ability to provide clear overview of financial costs

• Recommend pilot demonstration interventions to improve water access for productive agricutural use in 5 communities. Select number of interventions and type based on costing and available budget.

The consultancy will be done in close collaboration with SNV and AFDC staff.

The villages to be included are: Soppeng Napang Napoung Gnavaet and Nongping in Bualapha District.

Financial: agreed fee : 30

TOTAL 100

Technical Scores are weighted at 70%. Financial scores are weighted at 30%. Financial evaluation will be conducted for those proposals passing the technical evaluation. The lowest price is awarded maximum points and all other bidders are ranked beside the lowest bid on the following basis:

                           Bidders Cost Lowest Cost

                              * 100 Deduction

                           Bidders Cost

                           100-Deduction Bidders score

Your Financial proposal shall include a statement indicating (i) whether or not your contract and personnel shall be tax-free or not; and if not (ii) show separately what the tax burden will be.

Negotiations with the winning bidder will be restricted to the ToR and work plan.

Qualifications :

Key Experts

It is estimated that a total of one or two person days will be required by the group of key experts. Experts listed in the proposal must be available for the assignment.

The proposal must be valid for a period of one month during which bidders shall undertake to maintain without change the proposed key experts and shall hold to both the proposed rates and total price.

The team provided must be able to show the following criteria:

• • Minimum qualification of all experts is masters degree on civil engineering and Water Resources Engineering and related field over 7years experience

• • AutoCAD and other design tools

• • Design and construction of water facilities
  • Data collection proficiency
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Organizational and time management capabilities
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and manage stakeholders

Association between shortlisted consultants will not be accepted. Bidders may not subcontract any portion of the work.

Data protection

SNV will maintain this proposal submission as part of its records for the purposes of evaluation and record keeping for a period of 10 years. Data will be maintained secured both electronically and in hard copy and only used for SNV programming purposes. It will not be shared outside of SNV.

Proposal Submission

Proposal must be received at by 31 Aug 2025 at 17.00.

Emails must be titled in the subject line as follows:

PRF# 460/25 Technical and Financial Proposal with Name of Bidder

Additional Information :

• Annex: Table of Contents of Report

• Introduction (half page)
• Climate description of target area graph of precipitation water deficit describe water cycle general hydrological characteristics.
• Overview of selected villages map and justification of villages.
• Description per village.
  1. Population water needs current water sources availability & shortage.
  2. Identified pilot demonstration option to demonstrate enhanced dry season water access (with picture diagram).
  3. Suggested location on map and detailed technical description.
  4. Materials and skilled labour needed
  5. Costing of pilot to max 25000 USD for each community.
• Recommendations.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract