Public Notice

We hereby put a project up for the following proposal competition.
December 8th, 2022
Government Pension Investment Fund
Accounting Manager, Numata Hideo
1. Details of the procurement(1) Project name: Project to Provide Information on Investment Strategy(2) Specification of the procured project: As specified in the Request for Proposals and Specification
distributed separately(3) Contract period: From April 1 st, 2023 to March 31 st, 2025
In case the execution of the contract is delayed, the contract period will be from the date of theexecution to March 31 st, 2025.
2. Requirements to participate in the proposal competition(1) Those who do not fall under the items described in Article 70 or Article 71 of the Cabinet Orderon Budgets, the Settlements of Accounts and Accounting(2) (i) Candidates shall be registered in the list of qualified persons (within the valid period) of"provision of services, etc." in the uniform qualification for all ministries and agencies, or (ii)candidates should possess sufficient expertise and know-how on the procured project and havepast experience of analyzing and providing information on investment strategy to institutionalinvestors in Japan or abroad for no less than two years.
(3) Other requirements for the participation in the proposal are based on the Annex “Specification.”
3. Details of the Proposals(1) Place of submission and contact information for inquiries
7th Floor, Toranomon Hills Mori Tower, 1-23-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan,
105-6377
Accounting Division, General Affairs Department, Government Pension Investment FundJapan
Tel: +81－3－3502－2485(2) Issuance of the Request for Proposals
Request for Proposals are provided to those who wish to participate in the proposal
competition, from the date of this Public Notice until 17:00 of January 19th, 2023 (Japanstandard time).
If you wish to have the Request for Proposal by email, please specify the name of thecompany that wishes to participate in the proposal competition, the name, department andcontact information (address, phone number and email address, hereafter the same) of theperson in charge, and send to the following address with the message “Please provide theRequest for Proposals regarding the Project to Provide Information on Investment Strategy.”Name of the delivery address: Staff in charge of procurement in Accounting Division,
General Affairs Department, Government Pension Investment Fund
Mail：(3) Date, time and place of the briefing
14:00 on December 14th, 2022
In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection, the briefing session will be held using a
web conferencing system. If you wish to attend the proposal competition briefing, please
specify the name, company, department and contact information of all the participant (address,phone number, and email address) and send an email to the address in the section (2) above
with the title of "Wish to attend the proposal completion briefing for the Project to Provide
Information on Investment Strategy" by 15:00 on December 13th, 2022. The access information
to the web conference system will be informed in response to your email.
(4) Proposal submission due date
17:00 on January 20th, 2023 (Japan standard time)
4. Other(1) Language and currency used in the contract procedures
The language used in the procedures will be Japanese or English, and the currency will beJapanese yen or U.S. dollar.
(2) Contract guarantee
Totally exempted(3) Preparation of contract
Necessary(4) Invalidation of the proposalProposals submitted by those who do not fulfill the requirements to participate in theproposal competition shown herein, proposals submitted by those who do not fulfill theobligation of the participants, and proposals violating other terms will be invalidated.
(5) Selection of candidate parties for the contract
The proposals submitted from the participants will be evaluated and one of the candidates withthe highest evaluation will be selected as the candidate party for negotiating the contract.
(6) Note in sending and receiving emails
Please use an email address with a domain name of the company of the participant because
Government Pension Investment Fund does not receive an email address provided only byagreeing to uniform terms and conditions, such as free e-mail.