Australia Solicitations
Abt Associates is defined by its mission: to improve the quality of life and economic well-being of people worldwide. Our global staff works in more than 60 countries and our work is funded by governments, international organizations and the private sector.
We depend on a variety of partner organizations, businesses, and independent contractors to support client projects. We focus on selecting the right partner by conducting competitive procurements to obtain the best value. Depending on the need and requirements, we issue tenders for quotations (RFQs), requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for information (RFIs), requests for applications (RFAs), and independent contractor opportunities. Our grant and tender processes are competitive and are consistent with the Australian Commonwealth Procurement and Grant Guidelines.
We do not accept unsolicited applications for opportunities that are not specified here.
Request For Quotation: PNGWL-2023-016 Office Fit out for the PNG Women’s Lead Office
Background / Overview
The PNG Women Lead program is a DFAT funded program, managed by Abt Associates. It commenced on 1 February 2023 and will run until 31 January 2028. The goal of this investment is that PNG women and girls, in all their diversity, are safe and equitably share in resources, opportunities and decision making, with men and boys.
Scope of Services
We are seeking qualified contractor to provide Building, Electrical and Plumbing services for the ABT PNG Women Lead Office, located in PWC Haus, Port Moresby. Specifically, the Contractor will deliver this project with the following specifications outline in document 230424_PNG23-023_ABT OFFICE FIT OUT
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFQ documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFQ documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFP documentation is made up of the following:
- RFQ PNGWL-2023-016 Schedule 1 Instruction to Bidder
- RFQ PNGWL-2023-013 DRAWING_ 230424_PNG23-023_ABT OFFICE FITOUT_TD_Issue_1.9.1.6_
- RFQ PNGWL-2023-016 Schedule 2 Proposal Response Schedule
- RFQ PNGWL-2023-016 Schedule 3 Sub-Contract Terms and Conditions
The closing date and time for submissions is on Thursday 17 May 2023 at 12:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
Expression of Interest (APEP): The Revolving Fund for Agriculture value chain financing
Background / Overview
The Australia-PNG Economic Partnership (APEP) is a multi-sectoral investment that will help drive some of the key aspects of the PNG-Australia Comprehensive Strategic & Economic Partnership (CSEP) through the overarching goal of “a resilient and diversified economy that provides a high quality of life for all Papua New Guineans”.
Australia PNG Economic Partnership (APEP) is seeking financial service provider(s) to scale up APEP’s agricultural value chain financing facility, referred to as the ‘Revolving Fund’. The facility will allow financial service providers to work with the country's biggest players in the agri value chains (coffee, cocoa, vanilla, and copra) to improve agriculture supply chains through SME financing.
APEP’s Agriculture and Livelihoods Pillar Strategy aims to support and facilitate the growth of high-value commodity exports from PNG. However, access to affordable credit is one of the key challenges identified that impedes the development of effective supply chains, which are pre-requisite for commodity exports from the country. The problem becomes graver for the supply chains producing high-grade and Certified commodities (coffee, cocoa, vanilla, and copra). These supply chains require considerable investment from exporters, SMEs, and smallholders. When the suppliers (or aggregators) who are to buy from the certified suppliers run out of cash, the certified farmers are forced to sell their produce on the farm/roadsides. This leads to high-grade and certified produce not commanding the price it deserves and leads to issues of consistency in high-quality product supply, which is a loss for all players in the supply chain - farmers, suppliers, and exporters.
Scope of Services
To address this problem, APEP plans to establish an AUD 2,000,000 (approx. PGK 4.6mn) Revolving Fund facility with the financial service provider(s) to offer credit to exporters to increase the financing limits for their network SME suppliers. This will allow SMEs to:
- Buy more quality raw materials (coffee, cocoa, vanilla, and copra) from smallholders.
- Invest in equipment that can improve the ability to add value to the raw material (coffee, cocoa, vanilla, and copra).
- Prioritise financing for women-owned SMEs to source quality raw materials and acquire equipment for value addition.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the guidance documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or adnan.falak@auspngep.org or can access the EOI documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The closing date and time for submissions on Sunday 30th April 2023 at 5:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org. and adnan.fala@auspngep.org
Documentation
Request For Proposal: APEP-2023-002 Private Equity Fund Design for PNG Superannuation Funds
Background / Overview
The PNG Development Strategic Plan 2010-2030 sets out an ambitious reform agenda to achieve middle-income status by 2030, elevating the quality of life for all Papua New Guineans and establishing the country as an attractive investment opportunity in the region. However, while the GDP annual growth rate grew steadily in the early 2010s, PNG was badly affected by the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the road to economic recovery will be long.
Economic growth has typically been driven by exports from the extractive industry and PNG needs to diversify revenue sources to expand opportunities for its people, many of whom derive their livelihoods from semi-subsistence agriculture and activities in the informal economy (and are therefore particularly vulnerable to unexpected economic shocks). Aspiring entrepreneurs face significant regulatory and systemic constraints, including a lack of educational opportunities, the need for high start-up capital, and a complex social network which largely excludes women and girls from active participation.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are recognised as a key contributor to PNG’s future economic development. The Government of PNG has prioritised SME development with a commitment to grow the SME sector from 10% to 50% of the economy by 2030, but a key impediment to achieving this goal is the limited ability of high-potential SMEs to access the investment they need to grow and scale.
Scope of Services
APEP will issue a subcontract to the successful tenderer for the design of a SME capital investment fund for the Superannuation industry, taking note of all regulatory and contextual requirements. The design will be based on broad consultations with key stakeholders and will be accompanied by an analysis of the investment ecosystem that acknowledges the existing and potential challenges of establishing such a fund in the Papua New Guinean context.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFP documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFP documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFP documentation is made up of the following:
- APEP-2023-002_RFP Parts 1-4 Instruction to Bidder
- APEP-2023-002_RFP Part 5 Proposal Response Schedule
- APEP-2023-002_RFP Part 6 Sub-Contract Terms and Conditions
The closing date and time for submissions is on Thursday 04 May 2023 at 5:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
Request For Proposal: PIE-2023-009 – School Leadership & Management Training
Overview
Abt Associates is seeking offers for the provision of technical services to develop and support a contextually relevant school leadership and management training package for head teachers and school boards in primary schools in Papua New Guinea as described in the Request For Proposal (RFP) documents.
Background
Government of Australia (GoA) in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) are delivering the new education initiative, Partnerships for Improving Education (PIE), managed by Abt Associates. The PIE program is an eight (8) year investment in teaching and learning and is designed to improve access, equity, and student learning outcomes in the early grades through a capacity development, systems strengthening approach.
The PIE end-of-program outcomes are as follows:
Targeted Outcome 1: More children (girls, boys, and children with disabilities) in the early grades enrol and stay in school in selected provinces using replicable and sustainable approaches.
Targeted Outcome 2: Targeted provinces are using sustainable and replicable approaches to support improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in the early grades.
Enabling Outcome 3: Evidence of systemic change within the education sector that improves the delivery of early grades education.
PIE will in three Papua New Guinean provinces (Enga, Sandaun and Central) and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. As evidence of successful approaches are available, PIE will facilitate adoption by other provinces.
PIE will measure its support to teacher education against the following NEP Outcome.
Scope of Services
The PIE Program managed by Abt Associates is seeking proposals from reputed higher education institutes for the provision of technical services to:
- A professional development program for school boards of management and the Teacher in Charge (TIC).
- The Leadership and Management program will be designed to achieve better school attendance and retentions.
- The program would include (at minimum); Facilitation/Trainers Guide, Participant Workbook, Pre and post-test, Selection criteria for AQEFA, Monitoring mechanism to verify schools are implementing the SLIP and Model for training PDoE and NDoE officers to be combined with validation.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFP documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFP documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFP documentation is made up of the following:
- PIE-2023-009 RFP Parts 1 - 4
- PIE-2023-009_RFP Part 5
- PIE-2023-009_RFP Part 6
- PIE-2023-009 Briefing Session
- PIE-2023-009 Addendum No.1
- PIE-2023-009 Q&A
The closing date and time for submissions is on Friday 31 March 2023 at 5:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
Request For Proposal: APSP-2023-009 – Bougainville Senior Leaders Training
Background / Overview
Bougainville faces many challenges to economic growth and human development, compounded by ongoing complexities related to the nine year (1988 to 1997) civil conflict and the 2019 referendum on independence. For Australia the emergence of a peaceful, stable and prosperous Bougainville is a key national interest. Supporting the Government of PNG and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) to implement the Bougainville Peace Agreement is an explicit commitment in the 2017 Foreign Affairs White Paper. Our support implies a readiness to engage for the long term, accepting that the necessary development of institutions and diversified economic opportunities will not be achieved in the short term.
To support the ABG in implementing these strategies, DFAT commissioned a needs analysis to determine the skills, knowledge and behaviours required for ABG Ministers, government officials and senior public servants to perform their roles and exercise their responsibilities. From the needs analysis a learning model was developed. The Bougainville Senior Leaders Training program will be based upon the model developed.
The Bougainville Senior Leaders Training will be delivered as part of the Bougainville Partnership. The Bougainville Partnership (BP) took on its current form in 2016, inheriting activities from a number of separately administered initiatives. The new partnership commencing April 2022 is identified as a key element of the new Australian Subnational Strategic Framework for PNG, recently established to bring together a rationale and operational framework for a set of place-based initiatives that reflect geographical priorities based on the mutual interests of Australia and PNG.
Scope of Services
The APSP Program managed by Abt Associates is seeking a suitable training organisation, qualified and experienced tp conduct a training for the Bougainville Senior Leaders to equip ABG Ministers, government officials and senior public servants with the latest skills tools in planning, project monitoring, budgeting & finance, communication and leadership.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFP documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFP documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFP documentation is made up of the following:
- APSP-2023-009_RFP Parts 1 – 4_Addendum No. 2
- APSP-2023-009_RFP Part 5 Proposal Response Schedule
- APSP-2023-009_RFP Part 6 Sub-Contract Terms and Conditions
- APSP-2023-09 Addendum No.1
- APSP-2023-09 Addendum No.2
- Q&A
The closing date and time for submissions is on Monday 27 March 2023 at 9:00 AM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
Request For Proposal: APEP-2023-001 – CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: MERLA Training in GoPNG Agencies
Background / Overview
The Australia PNG Economic Partnership (APEP) is a multi-sectoral investment to assist GoPNG to create a stable and more prosperous country. The investment is the main vehicle and coordination point from which Australia will deliver its economic development aid to PNG and the primary vehicle to implement Comprehensive Strategic and Economic Partnership (CSEP). The Australian Government is committed to delivering The Partnership in accordance with the principles of integration and alignment with PNG’s economic sector policies, systems, and processes.
The Partnership overarching policy objective is to assist PNG in its efforts to achieve sustained growth, capable of lifting the standard of living of all citizens, while also ensuring Australia maintains its reputation as PNG’s economic partner of choice.
The Partnership incorporates gender equality, disability, social inclusion (GEDSI), women’s economic empowerment (WEE), climate change and economic dialogue and open government as cross-cutting objectives for all engagement areas.
It has the following five End of Program Outcomes (EOPOs):
- EOPO 1 - Safeguarding Macroeconomic Stability
- EOPO 2 - Strengthening Public Financial Management for Improved Service Delivery and Inclusive Growth
- EOPO 3 - Supporting More Efficient and Inclusive Markets
- EOPO 4 - Fostering Inclusive Growth and Expanded Livelihoods
- EOPO 5 - Catalysing Economic Research and Dialogue
Scope of Services
The APEP Program managed by Abt Associates is seeking a suitable training organisation qualified and experienced in the conduct of MERLA training in a developing country context, to conduct nine MERLA training workshops from 2023 to 2024. The target participants of the training are GoPNG and private sector staff involved in the delivery and receipt of APEP support.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFP documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFP documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFP documentation is made up of the following:
The closing date and time for submissions is on Monday 20 March 2023 at 5:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
Request For Quotation: PIE-2023-006 – ESCROW Agent for PIE AQEFA Fund
Background / Overview
Government of Australia (GoA) in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) are delivering the new education initiative, Partnerships for Improving Education (PIE), managed by Abt Associates. The PIE program is an eight (8) year investment in teaching and learning and is designed to improve access, equity, and student learning outcomes in the early grades through a capacity development, systems strengthening approach.
The PIE end-of-program outcomes are as follows:
Targeted Outcome 1: More children (girls, boys, and children with disabilities) in the early grades enrol and stay in school in selected provinces using replicable and sustainable approaches.
Targeted Outcome 2: Targeted provinces are using sustainable and replicable approaches to support improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in the early grades.
Enabling Outcome 3: Evidence of systemic change within the education sector that improves the delivery of early grades education.
Under End Of Investment Outcome (EOIO) 1, the Program will support the design and establishment of the Achieving Quality Education for All Fund or AQEFA.
Scope of Services
Abt Associates through PIE program is seeking responses from Papua New Guinea (PNG) registered legal law entities to hold AQEFA funds (the Fund) in a nominated PNG commercial bank account on behalf of Partnerships for Improving Education (PIE) under Abt Associates (Abt) under an escrow account. The funds are intended to be held for the purpose of receiving and distributing money on behalf of PIE.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFQ documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFQ documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFQ documentation is made up of the following:
- PIE-2023-006 - ESCROW Agent for PIE AQEFA Fund_RFQ Schedule 1
- PIE-2023-006 - ESCROW Agent for PIE AQEFA Fund_RFQ Schedule 2
- PIE-2023-006 - ESCROW Agent for PIE AQEFA Fund_RFQ Schedule 3
The closing date and time for submissions is on Tuesday 07 March 2023 at 5:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
Request For Proposal: PIE-2023-007 – Flexible Mode Course Development and Training for Elementary Teacher Upgrade
Background / Overview
Government of Australia (GoA) in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) are delivering the new education initiative, Partnerships for Improving Education (PIE), managed by Abt Associates. The PIE program is an eight (8) year investment in teaching and learning and is designed to improve access, equity, and student learning outcomes in the early grades through a capacity development, systems strengthening approach.
The PIE end-of-program outcomes are as follows:
Targeted Outcome 1: More children (girls, boys, and children with disabilities) in the early grades enrol and stay in school in selected provinces using replicable and sustainable approaches.
Targeted Outcome 2: Targeted provinces are using sustainable and replicable approaches to support improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in the early grades.
Enabling Outcome 3: Evidence of systemic change within the education sector that improves the delivery of early grades education.
PIE will in three Papua New Guinean provinces (Enga, Sandaun and Central) and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. As evidence of successful approaches are available, PIE will facilitate adoption by other provinces.
PIE will measure its support to teacher education against the following NEP Outcome.
NEP minor outcome related to teacher education which PIE will measure per table below.
| PIE Targeted Outcomes | Links to National Education Plan focus areas |
|---|---|
| Targeted Outcome 2: Targeted provinces are using sustainable and replicable approaches to support improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in the early grades | NEP Focus Areas 4 & 5. Teaching & Learning. That a teacher upgrading program has been implemented. That all teachers regularly participate in a program of In-Service teacher professional development |
Scope of Services
The PIE Program managed by Abt Associates is seeking proposals from reputed higher education institutes for the provision of technical services to:
- develop course content for a relevant teacher upgrading program for elementary teachers in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
- support the implementation of the upgrading program (flexible mode junior diploma) for elementary teachers in Papua New Guinea.
Approach to Market
Those interested in participating in this approach can request the RFQ documentation from the Abt Associates Contact Officer at email address – png.tenders@amspng.org or can access the RFP documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/solicitations/australia-solicitations.
The RFP documentation is made up of the following:
The closing date and time for submissions is on Wednesday 08 March 2023 at 5:00 PM, PNG local time.
Enquiries should be made to png.tenders@amspng.org.
