REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Consulting Services – Selection of Organizations and Firms
Country: Indonesia and Timor-Leste
Project: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)
Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: Grant No: TF-050500 / Project ID: P100198
Assignment Title: Ecosystem Profile for the Wallacea Biodiversity Hotspot
Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan): CS-Sec-1
Conservation International has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.
The consulting services (“the Services”) include preparation of an Ecosystem Profile for the Wallacea
Biodiversity Hotspot encompassing parts of Indonesia and Timor-Leste. An Ecosystem Profile consists of
both a stakeholder-driven priority-setting process and a document based on current applied
conservation science. The assignment is expected to begin in April 2013 and should be largely complete
within the calendar year. The Ecosystem Profile team will consist of experts in the region’s terrestrial
and marine conservation, sustainable development, and civil society who are capable of designing a
multi-year grant program. The terms of reference for these Services can be found at:
www.cepf.net/grants
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (www.cepf.net) is designed to help safeguard the world's
biodiversity hotspots. It is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation
International, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Japan, the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank. Conservation International serves as the
Secretariat to the global program on behalf of the partners. More information on CEPF and examples of
multiple ecosystem profiles from other biodiversity hotspots are available at the referenced website.
Conservation International now invites eligible firms, including regional and international nongovernmental organizations and for-profit firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing
the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the
required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The short-listing criteria are: (1)
experience conducting assignments of similar size, scope, and complexity as that required here; (2)
availability of appropriately skilled permanent and temporary personnel; (3) evidence of the
Consultant’s managerial, administrative, and operational capacity. (4) Evidence of the Consultant’s
ability to adopt and promote a collaborative conservation strategy in Indonesia as an inherent part of its
mission and beyond the terms of this assignment.
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines:
Selection and Employment of Consultants [under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants] by World Bank
Borrowers, January 2011 (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of
interest.
Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a subconsultancy to
enhance their qualifications.
The Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality Based Selection method set out in the
Consultant Guidelines.
Expressions of interest will consist of written materials both expressly prepared for this request as well
as previously prepared statements and demonstrations of corporate qualifications. Expressions of
interest must be delivered electronically by 22 October 2012 to the e-mail address below:
[email protected]
Please make the Subject line of your e-mail, “EOI: Wallacea Ecosystem Profile.”