Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

DFID will provide £35 million for the second iteration of the highly successful Somalia Stability Fund. DFID's contribution is essential for the continued existence and operation of the Stability Fund, which was set up following a pledge made by the Prime Minister at the London Conference on Somalia in February 2012. The fund plays a unique role in providing early support to consolidate peace settlements, help set up basic governance systems and restore economic activity in newly-formed interim regional administrations which are the building blocks of the new federal state in Somalia. The UK will remain the lead donor to the fund and will provide a staff member to lead the fund's Secretariat Office and procure and manage the contract of the Fund Manager. Other donors have already committed funding beyond October 2016. DFID is seeking a Service Provider (SP), over a 42 month period to administer the second phase of the Somalia Stability Fund, with responsibility for, a) managing and reporting on Stability Fund funds and projects, b) providing technical assistance and c) spporting the Secretariat Office. The Stability Fund has been operational since early 2013 and an interim management team was in place until August 2013, when the Stability Fund came under management of a Fund Manager company selected through an international competitive tender. That Fund Manager contract ends at the end of September 2016 and this project for appointing a Fund Management and Technical Assistance for the Somalia Stability Fund' are for a Service Provider (SP) to establish and run Stability Fund II. The Somalia Stability Fund II will be a 42 month joint-donor funded programme from July 2016 to December 2019 which includes a 3 month inception phase that will run in parallel with the existing contract to faciliate a smooth and seamless transition between the programmes. The Stability Fund's goal is to work towards a peaceful, secure and stable Somalia. To achieve this, the Stability Fund aims to address the security, development and political drivers of conflict in a local area to achieve the following outcomes, (a) legitimate, viable governance structures able to make and enforce rules locally and (b) existing and emerging conflicts brought to conclusion and risks of future conflicts mitigated. The Stability Fund II is an ambitious and risk-taking programme, with a design predicated on flexibility and responsiveness. It operates according to a series of principles, which serve as sub-objectives and which are important for the Stability Fund's operations: 1) Be appropriate for the context: — Local ownership first — Understand the context — Engage with politics — Geographical focus — Attention to marginalised and vulnerable groups 2) Work with others: — Partnership — Implement through Somali organisations and build Somali capacity 3) Fund high quality projects: — Learn and adapt — Innovate — Deliver results and impact — Strong monitoring of project implementation — Transparency and clear communications — Value for money — Organisational Capacity Interested parties should register on the DFID Supplier Portal and search for procurement reference ‘PO 7436’ to view all related documentation. This procurement initiative will folllow the ‘restricted’ procedures so intertested parties will need to complete the prequalification questionnaire which will be assessed against predetermined criteria to determine suitability to tender.