Call for EOI: Landscape Assessment (LDA) for Climate Resilient Rice Seed in the Mekong Delta - Extended Deadline

Call for Expression of Interest (EOI)

LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT (LDA) FOR CLIMATE RESILIENT RICE SEED IN THE MEKONG DELTA

VINASEED and DFCD origination project

Established in 1968 as a state enterprise under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Vinaseed was privatized in November 2003. It becomes one of the leading groups in the scale of management capability, Crop Industry in financial management and market share development in Viet Nam and growing in the region. It’s also noticed as an innovative climate business in researching, developing climate-smart agricultural products with a high yield, outstanding quality, and smart resilient rice seed to climate impacts in the country.

The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) is managed by a pioneering consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), Worldwide Fund for Nature the Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. DFCD provides finance and Technical Assistance (TA) to enable, mobilize and scale private sector funding for climate-smart development in two stages, origination, and investment.

VINASEED and DFCD agreed to implement an origination project to support the development of more climate-resilient rice seeds in the Mekong Delta, which is being undertaken by Vinaseed (Vietnam National Seeds Group JSC).    

Objectives of the assignment

Objectives: preliminary assessment of Resilient Rice Seed (RRS) contribution to implementation of Resolution 120, Mekong Delta Regional Integrated Planning. Specifically, determine spatial conditions of resilient rice seed ecological conditions that’s able to adapt to Climate scenarios (GIS, RS) in the MKD for scaling up this model in the landscape.

Tasks

The following tasks are to be performed under the guidance and supervision of VINASEED’s designated staff and SNV’s DFCD Vietnam country project manager and environmental social specialist.

The following tasks should also be undertaken in consideration of and coordination with other relevant studies Policy assessment (PA), Preliminary Environmental Social Assessment (PESA), and related stakeholders during December 2021 – September 2022 with estimated 40-60 days of the team members:

• Reviewing of existing studies, landscape assessment of rice varieties in the region, existing regulations and policy related to resolution 120/VNG;
• Identifying visual estimation (by GIS, remote sensing) of Eco-physiological distribution of climate resilient rice varieties without deteriorating the natural resource base in current and the predicted climate scenarios of the MKD. It’ll include a BAU of normal rice for baseline comparation.
• Estimating spatial distribution and priority areas of climate RRS development map in the ecological/hydrological zones and other social-economic, sustainable conditions under different climate scenarios in the MKD.
• In collaboration with policy assessment (PA), PESA to map and justify for priority needs and recommendations to Mekong Delta Regional Integrated Planning, resolution 120.
• Presenting, training (workshop) about the assessment and recommendations to multiple stakeholders

For more details on the Expression of Interest process, submission requirements, and evaluation details, please see corresponding sections below:

Selection Process

VINASEED will review all Expressions of Interest received in accordance with the guidelines and criteria in this solicitation. VINASEED reserves the right to exclude any EOIs that do not meet the guidelines. Please note that VINASEED is unable to provide detailed feedback to those EOIs that are not selected.

Step 1: VINASEED will shortlist selected EOIs, and unsuccessful respondents will be notified. Successful applicants will be contacted by VINASEED.

Step 2: VINASEED will release Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for the specific activities and contract with the selected organizations/ consultants.

Protection of Information

We request that Expressions of Interest responses be free of any intellectual property that the applicant wishes to protect. Should offerors wish to include proprietary intellectual property that they believe would be helpful for SNV Vietnam, please note the proprietary nature of such information. Costing information will be kept confidential and will not be shared beyond VINASEED.

Issuance of this EOI does not constitute a commitment, award, or engagement on the part of Vinaseed nor does it commit Vinaseed to any future commitment or engagement.

Note: Vinaseed reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement in the EOI/or solicitation process at any time.

The applicant needs to complete the Advanced Due Diligence Framework in the Annex attached to application.

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