Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-07-31
Buyer: Global Center on Adaptation
Country: NL
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 90700000
Estimated value: 1500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2023-09-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: GCA’s Water and Urban  Program  provides technical assistance for cities and national governments to identify priorities for climate adaptation  investment. This is done together with Multilateral Development Banks and other partners that support water services, urban development and informal settlements upgrading. Comprehensive Climate Risk Assessments and Rapid Climate Risk Assessment typically serve purposes such as informing detailed planning and design of investment projects, sector master plans, resilience roadmaps  and community resilience investments. As part of this process,  adaptation options are prioritized, including Nature Based Solutions (NBS).
Within this context, GCA is seeking Service Provider/s to enter into a Framework Agreement to carry out  Comprehensive and Rapid Climate Risk Assessments (RCRAs) in Africa and Asia.
GCA’s Water and Urban  Program  provides technical assistance for cities and national governments to identify priorities for climate  adaptation  investment. This is done together with Multilateral Development Banks and other partners that support water services, urban development and informal settlements upgrading.
Comprehensive Climate Risk Assessments typically serve some  or all of the following purposes for water services, urban development, and informal settlements upgrading:
•	Informing detailed planning and design of investment projects, sector master plans, resilience roadmaps  and community resilience investments. As part of this process,  adaptation options are prioritized, including Nature Based Solutions (NBS).
•	Development of investment plans, adaptation project concepts, and other actions to enable adaptation financing.
•	Initiating or advancing a dialogue between city officials and financiers (currently Multilateral Development Banks and Development Banks) towards an urban investment portfolio that is informed by climate risk.
•	Building capacity and aligning city decision  makers around a climate adaptation agenda that has clear priorities.
•	A precursor for detailed climate risk assessment and resilience options appraisal linked to a specific urban investment.
Within this context, GCA is seeking Service Provider/s to enter into a Framework Agreement to carry out  Comprehensive and Rapid Climate Risk Assessments (RCRAs) in Africa and Asia.
Both rapid and comprehensive climate risk assessments typically comprise three tasks (outlined below) whose granularity and level of detail depend on the objectives and scope of work of individual assignments (to be specified in each Work Order).
For rapid assessments, key climate hazards are typically analyzed from secondary data and or global data (major databases and credible sources) and from interviews and discussions with key city stakeholders. For comprehensive assessments, remote sensing and other data from monitoring stations are also used to estimate parameters needed for hydrological and hydraulic modeling as appropriate.
•	Historical analysis and future projection of temperature and precipitation for at least two time horizons and two emissions scenarios.
•	Historical analysis and future projection of climate hazards over at least two time horizons with estimates of intensity, frequency, and duration.
Analysis of the sensitivity and adaptative capacity of systems (places, people, institutions, infrastructure (assets, systems, services)) when exposed to key hazards. The impacts of hazards on systems are prioritized and mapped to identify hotspots. For some assignments, detailed analysis is done for hotspots.


Award value: 1500000