Request for Expression of Interest - FAO Soil Health Project

Scope of Services

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), intends to pre-qualify a group of organizations in a timely manner, and potentially solicit proposals from them shortly thereafter.

The services/outputs being sourced are:

• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the policies of land use management 2010 – 2020 in Viet Nam
• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of research and monitoring of soil quality, and soil fertility enrichment concepts in Viet Nam
• Draft a National Plan of Soil Health Management (NH-SHM) following healthy soil – healthy plant – healthy people as one health approach
• Finalize the National Plan after consultation with relevant stakeholders
• Develop a draft Project Proposal for prioritized activity of the national plan
• Consolidate and finalize the training curricula and materials
• Provide training on "Soil Health Management" for policy makers, researcher and farmers to roll on the NH-SHM
• Build up an online knowledge bank for trainers, learners, policy makers, farmers, and other relevant users
• Provide training on using the online knowledge bank.

Mandatory minimum requirements

In order to qualify, the organizations intending to participate must meet the following requirements:

• Not be currently suspended or debarred by FAO, any other UN organization, the EU or the World Bank.
• Service provider has at least 5 years of experience in providing technical assistance in policy formulation and capacity building in agriculture
• Service provider is a non-profit organization.

Selection Process

At this stage, FAO is prequalifying organizations potentially suitable for providing the required services. Interested parties that pre-qualify may be requested to submit an offer that will be considered in a combined technical and financial evaluation process, and they should be ready to submit such proposal within a week from FAO’s notice of prequalification.

Procedure for submission of EOI: