Statement of Requirements (SoR) for
Goods
Title: Branded materials for IslandPlas
Background
Project Reference: P04772
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About the IslandPlas Project
The IslandPlas project targets seven African Islands, that is, Cabo Verde, Comoros,
Madagascar, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, and Zanzibar. Based on recent
estimates, these Islands cumulatively generate an estimated two million tonnes of municipal
waste annually. Plastic material constitutes an average 11 percent of the waste material,
equivalent to 200,000 tons per year. Approximately 40 percent of the plastic waste is
recovered through collection, leaving 118 thousand tonnes uncollected or mismanaged —
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posing the single largest source of plastic pollution in the marine environment. Once in the
ocean, mismanaged waste negatively impacts the tourism sector, fisheries and aquaculture,
shipping, and overstretches the budgets of municipal and national authorities responsible for
waste management.
The project, running until end of 2027, envisions African Islands that are free from plastic
waste in the environment, and that circular measures are in place to ensure zero plastics to
the ocean. The project actions are designed to reduce and prevent plastic waste leakage
into the environment through demonstrating effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing
plastic leakage.
Among others, the project contributes to achieving the objectives prescribed in the
Declaration adopted by the Ministerial Conference on the Blue and Circular Economy in the
Island States of Africa and the Indian Ocean (September 2023), that advocates for a blue
and circular economy, enabled through circular entrepreneurship, skills development,
increased investment towards science, research and development, and legal and policy
reforms. The project is designed to strengthen understanding of national plastic material
flows and waste and pollution footprint, integrate and support informal waste sector actors
and local communities, support local ventures for innovation to reduce plastic pollution using
locally-appropriate solutions, strengthen institutional capacities (municipal, informal sector)
to catalyse change, and explore potential for an inter-regional recycling hub to support
multiple islands.
The project aims to achieve three main outcomes:
• Sustainable and improved livelihoods of informal waste sector actors engaged in a
circular plastics economy (9,600 beneficiaries);
• Quantifiable regeneration of plastic waste material through circular approaches,
including through plastic material recovery (14,000 tons), recycling (5,600 tons) and
upcycling; and
• Strengthened sector innovation and enterprise development with new growth
opportunities through direct capital investments to locally appropriate solutions (US
$2 million).
At the heart of the project is the engagement and collaboration with diverse stakeholders,
including from government, private sector, informal sector and civil society interlinked in a
vibrant collaborative network to co-generate and demonstrate demand-responsive solutions
to plastic pollution. It is therefore important that the project integrates or fits into existing
government or municipal sector management systems, working in coordination with the
urban local authority bodies or municipalities in order to capture, understand and address
systemic weaknesses and gaps and provide an opportunity to articulate intervention
measures that are locally-appropriate and socially acceptable to ensure sustainability of
project outcomes.
Description of the Goods
The goods required consist of eleven (11) categories of branded communication and visibility materials.
All items must be produced in accordance with the specifications set out in Essential Requirements and
must comply with IslandPlas co-branding requirements. Final artwork files for all items will be provided
by the IUCN IslandPlas Communications Officer following contract award and before production
commences.
Items and quantities are summarised below.
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# Item Unit Qty
1 T-Shirt units 250
2 Cap / Baseball Cap units 150
3 Wide-Brim Hat units 150
4 Roll-Up Banner units 3
5 Vinyl Outdoor Banner units 6
6 Tote Bag units 50
7 Reusable Water Bottle units 100
8 Branded Notebook units 100
9 Stickers / Decals sheets 500
10 Outdoor Metal Sign (2m × 2m) units 6
11 Business Card units 200
Essential Requirements
# Item Essential Requirements
1 T-Shirt • Unisex sizing: S, M, L, XL (quantities per size TBC)
• Fabric: 100% cotton or cotton-polyester blend, minimum 180 g/m² [...]
Procurement details
Reference: IUCN-26-08-Branded materials for IslandPlas-521
Procedure: SOP1 - Open Procedure
Procurement type: Advertise, publicity&PR
IUCN office (lead): ESARO Kenya
Requisitioning unit: ESARO - Coastal and Ocean Programme (KE)
Project: P04772 IslandPlas
Country of performance: Comoros
Expected contract duration: 1 month
Estimated contract value: <25,000 CHF
Currency of proposals: KMF - Comoros Franc
Language of documents: English
Deadline for questions: 16 September 2026 20:59 UTC
Deadline for technical and financial proposals: 30 September 2026 20:59 UTC
Expected contract award date: 15 October 2026 20:59 UTC
Documents
- Terms of Reference: Goods_-_Statement_of_Requirements_WSS_Comoros - Branded Materials.pdf
- Conditions for Participating: Conditions for Participating ENG-SPA-FRA.docx
- Standard contract: Standard Agreement.docx
- RFQ Branded materials.pdf
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