UNICEF EAPRO has now issued a Request for Proposals reference to LRPS-2020-9163050 in order to select a qualified institution to conduct a multi country regional research initiative on the provision of multi-tiered MHPSS services for children.

This research is intended to provide a broad understanding of the situation for child and adolescents’ mental health and a comprehensive mapping and analysis of the systems and resources in place for the provision of MHPSS services, in order to develop strategies for short, medium, and long-term engagement in multi-sectoral systems strengthening.

This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system.

By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration.  Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html  .

In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission.

Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering.

Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way.  Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files.  Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. 

All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.

*** Kindly note that this tender has a fixed timeline and is non-negotiable to extend the submission deadline. ***

Should you have any questions to the RFP, please submit your queries to Vilaiporn Thomdon at [email protected] with CC to: [email protected] and [email protected]  no later than 20-Nov-2020 - so that all queries could be clarified and circulated to all bidders before the deadline. 

We look forward to receiving your proposals within a given timeline.

Best regards,

UNICEF Supply team