Chemonics International Inc., under the RDMA Biodiversity and Forestry Analysis team USAID Contract No.AID-486-TO-11-00008 is issuing a tender for an Geographic Information Services (GIS) Mapping. The attached Request for Proposals (RFP) document contains all the necessary information for interested offerors.

USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), based in Bangkok, is conducting a regional Biodiversity and Forestry Analysis to enable the RDMA regional and country strategies, as well as non-presence countries for which it is responsible, to comply with sections 118 and 119 of the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, as amended. The geographic scope of this analysis will include 18 countries categorized into four sub-regions: Mekong Southeast Asia (Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam); Insular Southeast Asia-Pacific (Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste); South Asia (Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka); and China. In addition, a full, separate analysis and report will be conducted for Burma.

The regional Biodiversity and Forestry Analysis will identify regional trends, gaps, and opportunities in biodiversity and forestry, and ways to better mainstream those considerations into RDMA development programming. An important outcome will be a set of concrete recommendations for how RDMA can approach programming across its principle sectors/strategic objectives to take advantage of opportunities for scaled-up biodiversity and forestry impacts in the region. The GIS support specialist/firm will contribute to this broader analysis by gathering, compiling, and analyzing data and producing maps based primarily on available and existing data and metadata, focusing on free and publicly available sources.