Dear Sir/Madam,   UNFPA hereby solicits a quotation for the following service:  “For the provision of multi-media communications support to multiple UNFPA projects”.  UNFPA requires the provision of UNFPA aims to contract a multi-media firm to provide strategic communications, graphic design, social media support to the following projects at UNFPA Papua New Guinea: The Sustaining Peace in Bougainville (SPB) project provides post-referendum support to Bougainville and PNG to advance ongoing post-referendum negotiations and related peace processes at both national and regional levels, ensuring that diverse community voices are included. Under this initiative, UNFPA is supporting community dialogues around the Bougainville Peace Agreement and a peaceful future for the region. UNFPA has partnered with the Autonomous Bougainville Government and local CSOs to co-create knowledge about the capacity, needs, and gaps that communities in Bougainville face in relation to the six pillars of the Bougainville Peace agreement, with a particular focus on women and youth. UNFPA and UNDP conducted participatory research on 1) the impact of armed violence on women and girls and 2) the social and gender norms feeding the prevalence of toxic masculinity in Hela, Southern Highlands and Enga Provinces of Papua New Guinea under the SALIENT project - Strengthening Arms Control and Armed Violence Prevention for People-Centred Citizen Security in PNG, in line with the Government’s commitment to the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. The research has been completed and UNFPA seeks to create data-to-action multi-media assets to disseminate the results to influence programming and policy. About UNFPA UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is an international development agency that works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every child birth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.   UNFPA is the lead UN agency that expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives. To read more about UNFPA, please go to: UNFPA about us II – Service Requirements/Terms of Reference (ToR) Objectives and scope of the Services Background information [Background of the assignment and the contexts, overall goal of the project, previous related work, constraints, etc.] Scope of work Outputs / Deliverable(s) Expected Travel Required Expertise, Qualification and Competencies Submission Instructions II. Questions Questions or requests for further clarifications should be submitted in writing to the contact person below: Name of contact person at UNFPA:Procurement Officer Email address of contact person: [email protected] The deadline for submission of questions is  Monday 17th March 2025 . Questions will be answered in writing and shared with all parties as soon as possible after this deadline. III.  Eligible Bidders This Request for Quotation is open to all eligible bidders; to be considered an eligible bidder for this solicitation process you must comply with the following: A bidder must be a legally constituted company that can provide the requested services and have legal capacity to enter into a contract with UNFPA to perform in the country, or through an authorized representative. A bidder must not have a conflict of interest regarding the solicitation process or with the TORs / Technical Specifications. Bidders found to have a conflict of interest shall be disqualified. At the time of Bid submission, the bidder, including any JV/Consortium members, is not under procurement prohibitions derived from the Compendium of United Nations Security Council Sanctions Lists and has not been suspended, debarred, sanctioned or otherwise identified as ineligible by any UN Organization or the World Bank Group. Bidders must adhere to the UN Supplier Code of Conduct, which may be found by clicking on UN Supplier Code of Conduct. IV. Content of quotations Quotations should be submitted in a single email whenever possible, depending on file size. Quotations must contain: Technical proposal, in response to the requirements outlined in the service requirements / TORs. Signed Declaration Form, to be submitted strictly in accordance with the document. Price quotation, to be submitted strictly in accordance with the price quotation form Both parts of the quotation must be signed by the bidding company’s relevant authority and submitted in PDF format. V. Instructions for submission Proposals should be prepared based on the guidelines set forth in Section III above, along with a properly filled out and signed price quotation form and are to be sent by email to the contact person indicated below no later than: Monday, March 18th, 2025, at 5:00 PM PNG Time Name of contact person at UNFPA: Procurement officer Email address of contact person: [email protected] Please note the following guidelines for electronic submissions: The following reference must be included in the email subject line: RFQ Nº UNFPA/PNG/RFQ/25/001 – Provision of multi-media communications support to multiple UNFPA projects. Proposals, including both technical and financial proposals, that do not contain the correct email subject line may be overlooked by the procurement officer and therefore not considered. The total email size may not exceed 20 MB (including email body, encoded attachments and headers). Where the technical details are in large electronic files, it is recommended that these be sent separately before the deadline. Any quotation submitted will be regarded as an offer by the bidder and does not constitute or imply the acceptance of any quotation by UNFPA. UNFPA is under no obligation to award a contract to any bidder as a result of this RFQ.