ReviewUGForestMgmtPlanGuidline

Review the Uganda Forest Management Planning Guidelines Request for Proposals (RfP) Review the Uganda Forest Management Planning Guidelines Requested by IUCN Uganda Country Office (UCO) Land Systems Programme under the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Implementation Hub: Delivering the Bonn Challenge. Responsive and Needs-Driven Support and Financing for the Implementation of Carbon- Intensive Forest Landscape Restoration Strategies Delivering National Climate and Development Targets. Project Nunber: P03298 RfP Reference Number: IUCN-26-04-P03298-08. Welcome to this Procurement by IUCN. You are hereby invited to submit a Proposal. Please read the information and instructions carefully because non-compliance with the instructions may result in disqualification of your Proposal from this Procurement. 1. REQUIREMENTS 1.1. A detailed description of the services to be provided can be found in Attachment 1. 2. CONTACT DETAILS 2.1. During the course of this procurement, i.e. from the publication of this RfP to the award of a contract, you may not discuss this procurement with any IUCN employee or representative other than the following contact. You must address all correspondence and questions to the contact, including your Proposal. IUCN Contact: Margaret Amony, Finance and Administrative Officer/ Procurement Focal Person, UCO Email address: tenders.ug@iucn.org 3. PROCUREMENT TIMETABLE 3.1. This timetable is indicative and may be changed by IUCN at any time. If IUCN decides that changes to any of the deadlines are necessary, we will publish this on our website and contact you directly if you have indicated your interest in this procurement (see Section 3.2). DATE ACTIVITY 23rd September 2026 Publication of the Request for Proposals 7th October 2026 Deadline for expressions of interest 12th October 2026 Deadline for submission of questions 13th October 2026 Planned publication of responses to questions 15th October 2026 Deadline for submission of Proposals to IUCN (“Submission Deadline”) 18th October 2026 Clarification of proposals 20th October 2026 Planned date for contract award 29th October 2026 Expected contract start date IUCN: Request for Proposals Page 1 of 29 Review the Uganda Forest Management Planning Guidelines DATE ACTIVITY 28th February 2027 Expected contract end date 3.2. Please email the IUCN contact to express your interest in submitting a Proposal by the deadline stated above. This will help IUCN to keep you updated regarding the procurement. 4. COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL 4.1. Your Proposal must consist of the following four separate documents: • Signed Declaration of Undertaking (see Attachment 2) • Pre-Qualification Information (see Section 4.3 below) • Technical Proposal (see Section 4.4 below) • Financial Proposal (see Section 4.5 below) Proposals must be prepared in English. 4.2. Your Proposal must be submitted by email to the IUCN Contact (see Section 2). The subject heading of the email shall be [RfP Reference No. IUCN-26-04-P03298-08 bidder name]. The bidder name is the name of the company/organisation on whose behalf you are submitting the Proposal, or your own surname if you are bidding as a self-employed consultant. Your Proposal must be submitted in PDF format. You may submit multiple emails suitably annotated, e.g. Email 1 of 3, if attached files are too large to suit a single email transmission. You may not submit your Proposal by uploading it to a file-sharing tool. IMPORTANT: Submitted documents must be password-protected so that they cannot be opened and read before the submission deadline. Please use the same password for all submitted documents. After the deadline has passed and within 12 hours, please send the password to the IUCN Contact. This will ensure a secure bid submission and opening process. Please DO NOT email the password before the deadline for Proposal submission. 4.3. Pre-Qualification Criteria IUCN will use the following Pre-Qualification Criteria to determine whether you have the capacity to provide the required goods and/or services to IUCN. Please provide the necessary information in a single, separate document. Pre-Qualification Criteria 1 3 relevant references of clients similar to IUCN / similar work 2 Confirm that you have all the necessary legal registrations to perform the work 3 How many employees does your organisation have who are qualified for this work? 4.4. Technical Proposal The Technical Proposal must address each of the criteria stated in the table below explicitly and separately, quoting the relevant criteria reference number (in the two middle-columns). Proposals in any other format will significantly increase the time it takes to evaluate, and such Proposals may therefore be rejected at IUCN’s discretion. Where CVs are requested, these must be of the individuals who will actually carry out the work specified. The individuals you put forward may only be substituted with IUCN’s approval. IUCN will evaluate Technical Proposals with regards to each of the following criteria and their relative importance as follows: IUCN: Request for Proposals Page 2 of 29 Review the Uganda Forest Management Planning Guidelines Benchmark SN Technical Evaluation Criteria Scores 1. Level of understanding of the assignment objectives and tasks 10 2. Being able to define the scope of work in sufficient detail 10 Articulation of how each objective and task will be executed giving sufficient detail while directing proper level of effort towards each 3. objective and task 20 Level of understanding of the expected outputs and providing technical 4. solutions and expected outcomes 15 Being able to define the equipment, techniques, tools, approaches and 5. methodologies to be used in executing the assignment. 15 Providing assignment schedule in conformity with the assignment 6. scheduling and duration 10 Experts CV qualifications, expertise, and past work experience matching 7. with current assignment 20 TOTAL SCORE 100 4.5. [...] Procurement details Reference: IUCN-26-09-ReviewUGForestMgmtPlanGuidline-855 Procedure: SOP1 - Open Procedure Procurement type: Consulting IUCN office (lead): IUCN Headquarters Requisitioning unit: Forest and Grasslands (CH) Project: P03298 Global FLR Implementation Hub Country of performance: Uganda Expected contract duration: 4 months Estimated contract value: <25,000 CHF Currency of proposals: EUR - Euro Language of documents: English Donor requirements: Follow IUCN DoA Deadline for questions: 12 October 2026 20:59 UTC Deadline for technical and financial proposals: 15 October 2026 13:00 UTC Expected contract award date: 29 October 2026 20:59 UTC Documents - Terms of Reference: Review of National Forest Mgt Planning Guidelines Consultancy_RfP.pdf - Conditions for Participating: Conditions for Participating ENG-SPA-FRA v17-09-26.pdf - Standard contract: Standard Agreement.docx The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership union of government and civil society organisations working on nature conservation and sustainable development. IUCN procures consulting services, goods and works for its projects worldwide through the IUCN Procurement Portal. For all contracts above CHF 25,000 IUCN selects contractors through a formal competitive tendering process under its Standard Operating Procedure 1 (Open Procedure). Interested bidders must register on the portal, review the Terms of Reference, the Conditions for Participating and the standard contract, and submit their technical and financial proposals through the portal before the stated deadline. Questions must be raised through the portal's Q&A function before the deadline for questions.