Official UK procurement notice
Investment in Forests and Sustainable Land Use Phase 2 (IFSLU2) Component 5 (MEL)
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIFSLU2 is a flagship programme under the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) International Climate Finance (ICF) portfolio.
IFLSU2 is a £500 million commitment over a 10-year period, with a first tranche of £195m starting in Financial Year (FY) 2023/24 with a planned end of 31st March 2028. This new commitment of ODA funding will build on a successful first phase of operations through Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use (IFSLU1) (£140m, 2015-24).
IFLSU1 worked with the private sector to develop and implement new approaches to business which balance commodity production, livelihoods and forest protection and mobilise investment in protection and sustainable use of forest resources. Results include over £1bn in private investment mobilised into sustainable agriculture, forest protection and restoration. This has improved management across 4.5m hectares of land, benefiting over 250,000 people, mainly smallholder farmers and rural communities.
IFLSU2 will be delivered through five linked components:
- Component 1 – Business incubation, pipeline development, business enabling conditions and demand-side measures. Interventions oriented towards catalysing forest-friendly enterprises in forest landscapes in East Africa, West and Central Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia.
- Component 2 – Enhanced support for smallholder farmers. Interventions oriented towards reaching smallholders at scale in order to support their transition to sustainable production in ways that deliver strong developmental and social outcomes.
- Component 3 – Business and market development in the Congo Basin. Interventions oriented towards building the fundamental enabling conditions, capabilities, and structures to enable business-led sustainable production in Congo Basin countries.
- Component 4 – Policy support to catalyse transformational change and action at scale. Interventions oriented towards building political momentum, action, collaboration, demand shifts and policy change through global and regional level collaboration.
- Component 5 – Monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEL) and knowledge: Independent monitoring and evaluation to support programme-wide learning, inform management decisions, programme strategy and delivery and strengthen evidence.
This is expected to mobilise £2bn in private investment; directly benefit 0.5m people, mainly small farmers and poor rural communities; and improve management across over 10m ha of land.
The aim of this Early Market Engagement (EME) event is to inform and consult the market of the upcoming IFSLU2Components 5 (MEL) procurement.
This is not a call to competition or tender at this time
CPV: Foreign economic-aid-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This is not a call for competition or tender at this timePlanned
This is not a call for competition or tender at this time. This EME will inform FCDO’s approach to engaging delivery partners and testing our design assumptions for IFSLU2 Component 5.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Dec 2024, 14:29 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Dec 2024, 14:52 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-041004- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c9a6Find a Tender
Publisher note: This EME is scheduled to take place virtually on Tuesday 21 January @ 14.00– 15:30 GMT. Please register for attendance for the EME via the guidance below. How to register for this EME: If you are interested in attending this Early Market Engagement event, then please register via the form at:https://forms.office.com/e/ecNr0Atuf3 We ask that Suppliers register on the Jaggaer Portal and sign up to the PQQ titled ‘IFSLU2 Component 5 – EME Only'. All future communications relating to market engagement and pre-procurement messaging will be sent through the portal. Please note that this is not the PQQ stage of the formal procurement process and non-attendance will not impact any bidder’s opportunity to participate in the tender process. Should you have any technical issues with the Portal, please call eTendering helpdesk: +44 0203 868 2859 or use the “Call me Back!” functionality (recommended, especially if contacting from outside of UK). Any issues with accessing this PQQ should be reported to [email protected]
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Dec 2024 → 31 Mar 2025 · 2 dates- Notice published19 Dec 2024, 14:52 GMT
- Tender notice expected31 Mar 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
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1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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