VINASEED and DFCD origination project

Established in 1968 as a state enterprise under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Vinaseed was privatized in November 2003. It becomes one of the leading groups in the scale of management capability, Crop Industry in financial management and market share development in Viet Nam and growing in the region. It’s also noticed as an innovative climate business in researching, developing climate-smart agricultural products with a high yield, outstanding quality, and smart resilient rice seed to climate impacts in the country.

The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) is managed by a pioneering consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), Worldwide Fund for Nature the Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. DFCD provides finance and Technical Assistance (TA) to enable, mobilize and scale private sector funding for climate-smart development in two stages, origination, and investment.

VINASEED and DFCD agreed to implement an origination project to support the development of more climate-resilient rice seeds in the Mekong Delta, which is being undertaken by Vinaseed (Vietnam National Seeds Group JSC).    

Objectives of the assignment

The overall intention of the Assessment: To assist the management of Vinaseed Project in assessing the actual overall situation of the international rice sector and major trends supply, consumption and market trends in the world in the context of climate change in order to define future sustainable strategies for Vinaseed., Sustainability will be defined by economic, social and environmental factors.

Tasks

The following tasks are reported/coordinated with VINASEED’s designated staff and SNV’s DFCD Vietnam country project manager.

-      Overview of global rice supply, demand, trade flow, demand and, consumption of rice in the context of climate change;

-      Challenges and problems, difficulties in global rice production and supply chain according to specific regional and regional characteristics related to climate change;

-      General information about demand trends for rice (rice attributes) in the world through existing references for some popular markets.

-      Presenting, training (workshop) about the assessment and recommendations to multiple stakeholders

For more details on the Expression of Interest process, submission requirements, and evaluation details, please see corresponding sections below:

Submission Requirements

Interested organisations/ consultant teams/ individuals should submit the EOIs with following information/ documents via this site:

1.     The applicant’s experience & knowledge on the field of agriculture and economics with a master's degree or higher; at least 05 years of experience in the field of economics, environment, agriculture. Having good relations with foreign organizations; Knowledge and experience in the rice sector regarding sustainability (international market trends, value chain, research, sustainability initiatives, international trading companies, aspects of climate change in the rice sector, etc.).

2.   Additional information on the applicant’s professional qualifications and CVs.

3.   Business registration certificate of the company (if any)

4.   Completion of the Advanced Due Diligence form (for company only) https://c.smartrecruiters.com/sr-company-attachments-prod/58919688e4b0672cc03331a9/5449b9b4-5794-4dd0-a161-7f187ee0d652?r=s3

Deadline for EOI Submissions

- EOIs are due 17:00 on February 20th, 2022

Selection Process

SNV Vietnam will review all Expressions of Interest received in accordance with the guidelines and criteria in this solicitation. SNV Vietnam reserves the right to exclude any EOIs that do not meet the guidelines. Please note that SNV is unable to provide detailed feedback to those EOIs that are not selected.

Step 1: SNV Vietnam will shortlist selected EOIs, and unsuccessful respondents will be notified. Successful applicants will be contacted by SNV Vietnam.

Step 2: SNV Vietnam will release Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for the specific activities and contract with the selected organizations/ consultants.

Protection of Information

We request that Expressions of Interest responses be free of any intellectual property that the applicant wishes to protect. Should offerors wish to include proprietary intellectual property that they believe would be helpful for SNV Vietnam, please note the proprietary nature of such information. Costing information will be kept confidential and will not be shared beyond SNV Vietnam.

Issuance of this EOI does not constitute a commitment, award, or engagement on the part of SNV Vietnam nor does it commit SNV Vietnam to any future commitment or engagement.

 Note: SNV Vietnam reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement in the EOI/or solicitation process at any time.