Procurement of Consultancy services for RISE RAP Regional Geospatial & Data Analytics (Remote Sensing, Hydro Informatics & Dashboard Data Products)

_____________________________________________________ REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION) Country: Multinational Name of Project: Resilient Irrigation for a Sustainable Economy Project Grant No .: P514153 Assignment Title: Procurement of Consultancy services for RISERAP Regional Geospatial & Data Analytics (Remote Sensing, HydroInformatics & Dashboard Data Products) Reference No: 656/AUDA/DITIR/GEN/QCBS/2026 Method: Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) Introduction The African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa Development (AUDA-NEPAD) has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the “ Resilient Irrigation for a Sustainable Economy Project ”, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. “ Procurement of Consultancy services for RISERAP Regional Geospatial & Data Analytics (Remote Sensing, HydroInformatics & Dashboard Data Products)” Description of Services The consulting services (“the Services”) include: Joint Inception, Institutional Readiness and Workplan Confirmation - Participate in a joint inception phase with the Africa RISE Gateway team to prepare a unified delivery schedule, shared data model, API architecture note, staging plan, approval pathway and milestone acceptance process. Where the same firm delivers both workstreams, separate teams, named leads, reporting lines and acceptance checkpoints shall be maintained. . Regional Geospatial Data Products and Benchmarking Inputs - Produce priority regional geospatial layers aligned with the Africa RISE Regional Benchmarking System, including crop and irrigated-area maps, evapotranspiration and water productivity datasets, vegetation and biomass indicators, surface-water extent, groundwater-stress proxies where feasible, drought/flood exposure and climate-variability composites; Analytics Workflows and Decision-Support Outputs - Develop and operationalize an analytics suite comprising: Irrigation Performance Ass