REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL- Services for Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) for the Digital Village Initiative (DVI) Marketing platform for Agrarian Reform Communities.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP), is providing technical support to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for the development of Digital Agrarian Reform Communities (DARCs). One of the project outputs is the development and deployment of the ARBentahan Digital Platform, a digital marketplace and business support platform designed to strengthen the market participation of Agrarian Reform Beneficiary Organizations (ARBOs) and improve linkages with buyers and other value chain actors. The ARBentahan Digital Platform consists of multiple digital components including Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) for ARBOs and buyers, an administrative dashboard for DAR offices, Application Programming Interface (API), databases, document repositories, notification services, and reporting modules. The platform processes organizational data, business records, transaction information, uploaded documents, and user account information. As the platform approaches deployment, DAR and FAO seek to ensure that the system is resilient against cybersecurity threats and complies with applicable security, privacy, and data protection standards. A comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) exercise is therefore required to identify security weaknesses, validate implemented security controls, and recommend corrective measures before operational rollout.