Dear Sir/Madam

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites you to submit a Proposal to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for the above-referenced subject. This RFP includes the following documents and the General Terms and Conditions of Contract which is inserted in the Bid Data Sheet (BDS):

Section 1: This Letter of Invitation

Section 2: Instruction to Bidders

Section 3: Bid Data Sheet (BDS)

Section 4: Evaluation Criteria

Section 5: Terms of Reference

Section 6: Returnable Bidding Forms

o Form A: Technical Proposal Submission Form

o Form B: Bidder Information Form

o Form C: Joint Venture/Consortium/Association Information Form

o Form D: Qualification Form

o Form E: Format of Technical Proposal

o Form F: Financial Proposal Submission Form

o Form G: Financial Proposal Form

o Form H: Form of Proposal Security Not Applicable

The Financial Proposal and the Technical Proposal files MUST BE COMPLETELY SEPARATE and uploaded separately in the system and clearly named as either “TECHNICAL PROPOSAL” or “FINANCIAL PROPOSAL”, as appropriate. The file with the “FINANCIAL PROPOSAL” must be encrypted with a password. Special note: Do not disclose your price anywhere in your submission or e-tendering system other than encrypted financial proposal. Please enter ‘1’ as your bid price in e-tendering line item.

Please visit the YouTube link to go through the submission process on How to Submit bids through E-Tender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy34AXsYMrc&sns=em

An online Pre-Proposal conference will be held on July 11, 2021, Time: 2:30 PM (Local BD time).

Venue: The meeting will be organized through Zoom https://undp.zoom.us/j/82231804116?pwd=V2FtVm9YcE4wNTE1NUxxK1NpZUNMZz09&from=addon;

Quotations must be submitted on or before July 20, 2021 by 04:30 PM (Bangladesh Time) through online e-Tendering system in the following link: https://etendering.partneragencies.org using your username and password. If you have not registered in the system before, you can register now by logging in using

username: event.guest

Password: why2change

and follow the registration steps as specified in the system user guide. Your Quotation must be expressed in the English, and valid for a minimum period of 90 days.