Long Term Arrangement (LTA) for LTA FOR EMERGENCY WATER TRUCKING AND TEMPORARY WATER STORAGE SERVICES

UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of LTA FOR EMERGENCY WATER TRUCKING AND TEMPORARY WATER STORAGE SERVICES The overall objective of this assignment is to establish one or more Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) with qualified emergency water trucking service providers to ensure the rapid and reliable delivery of safe water during humanitarian emergencies and disasters across the Philippines. At the end of the assignment, UNICEF shall have pre-qualified service providers capable of supporting emergency water supply interventions in accordance with agreed service standards, mobilization timelines, and water quality requirements.

Specific Objectives

• Ensure rapid mobilization and delivery of potable water to emergency-affected populations and institutions.
• Support continuity of essential services in health care facilities, evacuation centers, temporary displacement sites, schools, and affected communities.
• Provide temporary water storage systems where existing storage infrastructure is insufficient.
• Ensure compliance with Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water and UNICEF emergency WASH requirements.
• Strengthen UNICEF's emergency preparedness and surge response capacity through pre-qualified service providers with nationwide or regional coverage.

This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system.

By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html .

In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission.

Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering.

Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated.

All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.