Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-03-01
Buyer: Norad – Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 73200000 | 73210000 | 73220000 | 73430000
Estimated value: 1300000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The procurement shall be implemented in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 17 June 2016 (LOA) and the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) FOR 2016-08-12-974 parts I and III. The contract will be awarded in accordance with the open tender contest procedure, c.f. the Public Procurement Regulations § 13-1 (1). 
 
Negotiations are not allowed in this competition. Tenders cannot, therefore, be changed after the tender deadline has expired. Furthermore, attention is agreed that tenders that include significant deviations from the procurement documents shall be rejected in accordance with PPR § 24-8 (1) b. The contracting authority can reject tenders that include deviations from the procurement documents, uncertainties or similar that must not be considered insignificant, cf. § 24-8 (2) a. Tenderers are therefore strongly encouraged to follow the instructions given in the tender documentation and annexes and possibly ask questions about uncertainties through the tender management tool.
Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) – A review of a new model for organising the fund 
The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), established in 2015, is a political initiative and a multi-donor fund under the UN's Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office. CAFI's main aim is to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests in the Congo Basin, safeguarding the biological diversity of the countries while improving the living conditions of the local population.
CAFI as a political initiative consists of six Central African partner countries and ten donor countries.
At a nationwide level, CAFI promotes political dialogues that ensure integration of climate and forest targets in sector and development plans with the aim of sustainable development of the region with low deforestation and reduced emissions from the area use sector. 
CAFI as a multi-donor fund is organised on three levels: partnership coordination and fund operations (fund management and secretariat) serving the overall CAFI initiative, fund design and administration (MPTF Office), and fund implementation (implementing organisations and national authorities).
The CAFI Fund has grown significantly since it was created. CAFI had received $695 million in donor financing by the end of 2024, with more than $835 million committed to the fund. The fund finances 43 projects in the six partner countries. 
The aim of this review is to analyse CAFI ́s objectives in light of the challenges and to make clear recommendations for changes to the CAFI Fund ́s institutional set-ups. The consultants must mainly evaluate a model, this model is how the fund can be organised as an independent non-profit organisation.
The aim is to have a participating process with two reference groups that will actively participate in the study. 
This option study is an important tool to guide CAFI ́s donors in further discussion and decision on the choice of direction and development of the fund in the next few years.


Winner: KPMG AS