The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India (MoEFCC) has entered into a technical cooperation agreement with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) for implementing the project ‘Conservation and Sustainable Management of Existing and Potential Coastal and Marine Protected Areas (CMPA)’. The BMUB has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to jointly implement the Project with the MoEFCC in selected states in India.

The overall objective of the project is ‘to contribute to the improvement of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the pilot areas, while taking into consideration the economic circumstances of the local population’.

The CMPA Project intends to improve the protection of biodiversity by promoting participatory approaches to the conservation and management of existing coastal and marine protected areas, and supporting conservation and management of identified biodiversity rich coastal and marine areas in the future. By involving stakeholders at local, state and national levels, it is expected to make a significant contribution to the conservation of areas rich in biodiversity. At the same time the Project is concerned with identifying economic activities in protected coastal areas in concordance with agreed conservation strategies.

The MoEFCC-GIZ CMPA Project has identified pilot areas in four states on the Indian seaboard and one among them is Gujarat.

The detailed documentation with regards this call for proposals includes –

• The Terms of Reference for the Assignment
• The Technical Evaluation Grid
• Bidding Conditions
• The General Terms & Conditions of Contracts

Timeline

Deadline to receive queries: 10th Oct’ 2016
Clarifications to the queries: 13th Oct’ 2016

Deadline for submission of proposal:: 21st Oct’ 2016 by 17:30hrs