Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management Project Study on the Economics, and Financial... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management Project Study on the Economics, and Financial and Fiscal Issues Related to Satellite Technology and Their Use in Forest Monitoring

Deadline : 26 Sep 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 36346353

Document Ref. No. : 1264274

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : WORLD BANK GROUP
1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 USA Tel : (202) 473-1000
USA

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management Project Study on the Economics, and Financial and Fiscal Issues Related to Satellite Technology and Their Use in Forest Monitoring.

Expression of Interest Deadline

26-Sep-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time - Washington D.C.)

Language of Notice

English

Selection Notice

Assignment Country

· No Countries Assigned

Funding Sources

The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment/services under:

· BB - BANK BUDGET

· TF0A2822 - Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management: project activities

Individual/Firm

The consultant will be an individual.

Assignment Description

BACKGROUND

Recent major breakthroughs in satellite Earth Observation (EO) data provision provide unprecedented views of the Earth and present an opportunity to address existing limitations in forest monitoring capabilities. In 2014 and 2015, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched two satellite missions Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 which are the first part of the Copernicus program aimed at responding to the challenges of monitoring the global environment. Both satellites are revolutionary in terms of wide coverage, high spatial resolution, and frequent repeat coverage, and Sentinel-2 provides a unique wide-range of spectral measurements. Similar to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA Landsat-8 mission, data collected by the Sentinel missions are provided freely through an open access policy. These new missions and open access dramatically increase available data and many existing satellite EO methods and tools are yet to take advantage of this increased data volume along with cloud processing capabilities and the new satellite systems performance capabilities (e.g., spectral range (radar/multispectral), higher spatial resolution, increased revisit time, data products pre-processing, etc.).

The World Bank developed the Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management (SMFM) project to develop satellite EO methods and global knowledge to address challenges related to monitoring tropical dry forest ecosystems and forest degradation assessment. The World Bank is the implementing and executing agency for the SMFM project. ESA is a key project partner and technical advisor, providing in-kind support in the form of data, tools, and technical knowledge. The Project is financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Much of the development work in recent years in the area of satellite-based EO in forest management has been focusing on technical solutions and tool development (demonstration and proof-of-concept activities). There has been much less work done on what kind of operational impact this new technology has on public forest agencies; how much the use of this technology costs and what would be sustainable business models for public data providers (space agencies), private service providers and forest agencies themselves. Particularly in developing countries and their forest agencies, this may become an issue; much of the work done thus far has been financed by development partners. In the new operating environment, it is likely that EO costs will become more regular recurrent costs which are often financed from domestic resources. However, the change has not yet fully happened, and this assumption needs to be analyzed.

These Terms of Reference are for a Short-Term Consultant who will prepare a study on the institutional changes (incl. budgeting) that forest agencies need to go through to use satellite-based EO data. The study will cover also costs of EO use as well as potential business models for service providers. The study has a global scope with a particular focus on developing countries.

This consultant agreement will be directly with the World Bank and it is a separate from the consultant contract for the main activities for the SFMF project.

SCOPE OF WORK

The Short-Term Consultant will advise the World Bank project team and prepare a report (discussion paper) on the economics, and financial and fiscal issues related to satellite technology and their use in forest monitoring. It is recognized that there is little hard data and the discussion paper will be much based on expert opinions and simulations that will be used to propose different options for business models rather than purely evidence-based analysis.

The discussion paper needs to cover expected development trends in the next 1012 years.

TASKS AND METHODOLOGY

The Consultant work will comprise of the following tasks:

i.Assessing how current EO use in forest agencies is financed, how agencies cover the costs and how the work is organized ;
ii.Presenting development trends on how EO use is expected to change as relevant tools and data become increasingly available, and unit costs decline;
iii.Presenting development trends on how costs and service providers business models are expected to change in the medium term and how current impediments could be resolved;
iv.Presenting options for future models on how EO and its use in forest agencies are likely to change. Particular focus will be on the costs, who pays for the use (e.g., what is the role of domestic resources vis-à-vis donor support), the role of the private and public sectors (public-private partnerships) and what are impacts on agencies budgets (e.g., investment costs vs. recurrent costs);
v.Recommendations to forest agencies, their governments, development partners and the private sector. These recommendations will be directed at the different types of contexts identified under item i. above; and
vi.Preparation of a discussion paper and related communication material (concise policy brief and a Powerpoint presentation).
9.The work will consist of literature review, expert interviews, and data analysis.
10.The Consultant may be requested to give a presentation(s) on the study and its findings.

LEVEL OF EFFORT

It is expected that the task will take approximately 10 working weeks of consultant time.

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