PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM FISHERIES AGENCY FFA Road PO Box 629 Honiara, Solomon Islands. Tel (677) 21124 Fax (677) 23995/20092 www.ffa.int

Member Countries & Territory: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands,

Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

DATE: 20 May 2020

RFP No.: CP07/1920

TO: Suitably Qualified Consultants

FROM: Matthew Hooper, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL

SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR CP07/1920 MCS Course Content

Development – Diploma in Fisheries Investigation

Attached herewith is an invitation to submit a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the provision of

course content development services for the creation of online learning and assessment

material for the FFA Diploma course in Investigation and Prosecution.

Note that the deadline for submission of this Request for Proposals is 13 June 2020.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Allison Delvendiep, FFA Training Adviser on

allison.delvendiep@ffa.int, otherwise we appreciate your assistance in disseminating this to

interested parties/persons.

Yours Sincerely

Matthew Hooper

DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL

CALL FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

MCS Course Content Development – Diploma in Fisheries Investigation

Background

The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) traces its origin to the South Pacific Forum

meeting in Port Moresby in 1978 which adopted a Declaration on the Law of the Sea and the

establishment of a regional fisheries agency and outlined its functions. In recent years FFA has

been translating its ad-hoc tuna fishery training into accredited qualifications offered through

recognised higher educational training providers in the Pacific. These study programmes in

fisheries range from competency-based TAFE qualifications to post-graduate courses. The

Agency is responsible for assisting its 17 members to build and develop human resource

capacity in sustainable tuna fishery management and development of the tuna fishery

resources while maintaining operational enforcement and compliance with national laws and

regional tuna fisheries arrangements.

FFA’s Role for its Members

FFA consists of the Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) of officials and FFC Ministerial Meeting,

which are its governing bodies, and a Secretariat. The Secretariat, with a current establishment

of approximately ninety positions, is organised into four divisions: Fisheries Management,

Fisheries Development, Fisheries Operations, and Corporate Services. FFA is led by an executive

management unit headed by the Director-General.

The Vision of the Members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency is: “Our people will

enjoy the highest levels of social and economic benefits through the sustainable use of our

offshore fisheries resources”.

The Mission of the Forum Fisheries Agency is: “To drive regional cooperation to create and

enable the maximum long term social and economic benefit from the sustainable use of our

shared offshore fishery resources.”

The work of the Agency includes services delivered by three programmes: Fisheries

Management, Fisheries Development and Fisheries Operations. Each of these programmes

have specific areas or topics that require training for effective implementation. The Agency also

has an Executive that delivers High Level Advice and a Corporate Services Division.

Regional Fisheries Training Framework

FFA is committed to providing learning opportunities to help build capacity of members to meet

the constant changes of day-to-day fisheries management, development and operational

enforcement and compliance. In order to create a skilled, innovative, and respectful Pacific

fisheries workforce capacity development continues to be a strategic priority for FFA.

Regional training needs analysis and service level agreements between FFA and Members

identify a number of skill gaps and capacity building opportunities. The Regional Fisheries

Training Framework focuses on closing these gaps and assisting members to achieve their

national and regional fisheries objectives.

Summary

FFA and Members recognise and promote lifelong learning and accredited qualification courses.

These courses provide opportunities for higher learning pathways and career development.

Recent training needs analysis identified the need for a learning programme designed to build

the capacity of fisheries officers to investigate, gather evidence and assist in prosecution

procedures in cases relating to fisheries offences.

FFA, with assistance from the University of South Pacific (USP) School of Marine Studies,

designed six (6) units of competency. FFA seeks to develop learning and assessment materials

to support to achieve of the learning outcomes and performance elements and sequence this

study with other USP units.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)

FFA invites proposals from well-qualified educational design consultant(s) or company who can

work with FFA, USP and other experts in the field of fisheries prosecutions, to design and

develop a full and complete set of learning guides, with accompany resource materials and a

range of assessments.

Skills and Experience

The successful contractor will have:

1. More than 7 years’ experience working in the legal field as a prosecutor, legal adviser or

lecturer of law;

2. Experience working in the pacific preferably in the education or legal sectors;

3. Knowledge of the various legal systems in the pacific;

4. A teaching or training and assessing qualification,

5. Recent experience in delivering structured training programmes;

6. Experience in the design and development of learning materials and assessment for

accredited qualifications;

7. Knowledge of developing content for online learning and engaging students in a remote

learning environment;

8. Experience in designing online courses using Moodle or similar LMS;

9. Excellent English writing and communication skills.

Scope of Work:

The contractor is required to produce the following outputs:

1. A whole of course learning design with sequenced lesson plans, activities and assessments;

2. Learning guides and other suitable learning resources (e.g. case studies, presentations,

video or audio content) designed to be delivered online;

3. A suite of assorted assessment tools, with model answers and teacher and grading

instructions, designed to be delivered online, with flexibility for some to be delivered face

to face;

4. Assessment tools which are mapped back to the performance criteria and designed using

the principles of assessment and rules of evidence;

5. Student feedback form, to be provided online;

6. A series of policy and procedure documentation including but not limited to:

a. Recommended course and assessment review plan with associated forms;

b. Recognition of prior learning guidelines and forms;

c. Recommended assessment requirement guidelines detailing knowledge and

performance evidence to be met;

7. Suggested text to be included in the MCS for Fisheries Officers Training Package Guide for

Implementation;

Evaluation and Assessment of RFP

All bids shall be evaluated using a two stage procedure with evaluation of the technical proposal

being completed prior to any financial proposal being reviewed and compared.

The overall evaluation weighting shall be 80% Technical and 20% Financial.

Bidders are required to submit their financial proposal as a separate document.

Technical Proposal

Evaluation Criteria Weighting

Demonstrated skills and experience 40

Demonstrated understanding of the scope of work 30

Methodology 15

Timeline for delivery 15

TOTAL MAXIMUM SCORE 100%

In the second stage, the financial proposal evaluation, those bidders who have attained a

minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be compared

Financial Proposal

A total price is to be in United States Dollars (USD). The financial proposal should provide a detailed cost summary including the consultancy fee rate and number expected days, meeting or travel locations with costs.

References

All submissions are required to provide evidence of professional or technical capacity such as

educational or professional qualifications, details of experience on similar projects.

The successful bidder will be asked to provide references from previous employers.

Request for further information

For additional information regarding the tender, please contact the FFA Training Adviser on email: allison.delvendiep@ffa.int

Closing date of proposal

Tenders must be received by 5.00pm (Solomon Island time) on the 13th of June 2020.

Tenders should be addressed to:

Director General

FFA Tender Committee

Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)

CP07/1920 MCS Course Development

PO Box 629

Honiara

OR

Emailed to: procurement@ffa.int please note in the subject line: CP07/1920 MCS Course

Development

Submission of RFP

1. All RFPs should be submitted will all relevant documents and shall be in English.

2. Bidders are reminded the technical and financial proposals must be submitted as a

separate documents either in separated envelopes (via post) or attached to an

email.

Award of Contract

FFA reserves the right to accept any RFP, and to annul the solicitation process and reject all

proposals at any time prior to award of any contract, without thereby incurring any liability to

the affected Bidder(s) or any obligation to inform the affected bidder(s) of the grounds for such

action.

Notification

The names of winning bidders shall be advertised on the FFA website;

www.ffa.int/employment/tenders/tender_results