CIRCULAR ICCAT # 11903 / 2023
Madrid, a 3 de noviembre de 0000
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ASUNTO: CONVOCATORIA DE OFERTAS - PRUEBAS DE SIMULACIÓN DE INDICADORES DE ECOSISTEMAS: APOYO AL ENFOQUE ECOSISTÉMICO DE LA ORDENACIÓN PESQUERA (EAFM) DE ICCAT
El texto enmendado del Convenio de ICCAT y la Resolución de ICCAT sobre la aplicación de un enfoque ecosistémico a la ordenación pesquera (Res. 15-11) comprometen a ICCAT a aplicar el criterio de precaución y un EAFM. Para implementar este compromiso, el Subcomité de ecosistemas y captura fortuita de ICCAT está desarrollando una ficha informativa sobre ecosistemas (EcoCard) como herramienta para supervisar los impactos de las pesquerías de ICCAT.
Para comprobar la validez de los indicadores, se ha desarrollado previamente una versión preliminar de un módulo de R denominado EcoTest. Como parte del compromiso de ICCAT con el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (GEF) que financia el Proyecto túnidos ABNJ del Programa Océanos Comunes, se ha acordado completar las actividades en el transcurso de un periodo de tres años.
Me complace transmitirle adjunta una Convocatoria de ofertas para las pruebas de simulación de indicadores de ecosistemas en apoyo al EAFM de ICCAT.
Le agradecería distribuyera esta Convocatoria de ofertas entre las instituciones y personas cualificadas que pudieran estar interesadas.
Le saluda atentamente,
Secretario ejecutivo
Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Distribución:
− Cargos de la Comisión:
Presidente de la Comisión: | X. Xxxxx Lado | Presidente del COC: | X. Xxxxxxxx |
Primera vicepresidenta: | X. Xxxxxxxx | Presidente GTP: | X. Xxxxxx |
Segundo vicepresidente: | X. Xxxxx | Presidenta del STACFAD: | X. Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx |
Presidentes Subcomisiones 1 a 4 | Presidente del SCRS: | X. Xxxxx |
− Jefes de delegación/Jefes científicos
− Partes, Entidades o Entidades pesqueras no contratantes colaboradoras Documentación adjunta: Términos de referencia de la Convocatoria de ofertas (sólo en inglés).
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Terms of Reference
Simulation Testing Ecosystem Indicators:
Support to ICCAT’s Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM)
1. Background and objectives
ICCAT’s amended Convention text and Resolution 15-11 commit ICCAT to apply the precautionary approach and an EAFM. To implement this commitment, ICCAT’s Subcommittee of Ecosystems and Bycatch is developing an Ecosystem Report Card (EcoCard) as a tool for monitoring the impacts of ICCAT fisheries. It consists of a set of indicators that are hoped to be informative on the sustainability of species or stocks and how their fishing impacts on ecosystem structure and function. One gap in implementing the EAFM is that few indicators have been validated to ensure that they are representative and responsive to population dynamics changes; without such validation, such indicators are impossible to interpret. Accordingly, it is important to establish challenging and plausible scenarios for ecosystem dynamics to test if indicators can be validated to determine if they correctly detect population dynamics changes.
To test the validity of indicators, the Ocean Foundation funded the initial development of a preliminary version of an R module called EcoTest. This uses a Management Strategy Evaluation approach to test how indicators perform in variety of ecosystem and management contexts (Xxxxx 2022). EcoTest can simulate the management performance of a given strategy in terms of performance metrics. To ensure that the software would be freely available once finalized, the module was developed to be compatible with the existing OpenMSE packages that are freely available. As part ICCAT’s commitment to the Global Environment Fund’s Common Oceans Tuna Project, it agreed to complete the activities in the course of a three-year period described in Section 2, below.
2. Activities
Over the course of the whole project (2023-2026), the contractor will:
1. Develop a module [EcoTest] that allows for the simulation of ecosystem dynamics so that indicators and policy measures can be formally and rigorously evaluated.
2. Establish the conditions under which indicators can be assumed to be operating reliably with two of the candidate indicators currently proposed at ICCAT being tested (1 as a mid-term target, and a second one tested as a final target).
3. Organize and carry out three online workshop reports on the use and application of the ECOTEST tool.
The activities specified above will form the basis for any deliverables made under this contract.
3. Contractor Qualifications
The contractor shall have the following minimum qualifications:
- A Ph.D. in fisheries science of related field.
- A minimum of five years’ experience developing open-source management strategy evaluation in R with up-to-date repositories on CRAN and/or GitHub using the OpenMSE set of packages.
- Documented experience developing Ecotest or similar R software packages for doing closed-loop simulation of ecological indicators in a multi-species context.
- An established history (greater than five years) or interactive participation in MSE processes at tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations.
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4. Deliverables
Deliverables and the due date for them are listed in Table 1 below.
Table 1. List of deliverables and due dates.
Deliverable | Delivery Date (dd/mm/yyyy) |
1. A technical report updating SCRS/2022/104 on EcoTest development and example testing to date | 15/12/2023 |
2. Document describing testing indicator 1 delivered to ICCAT Subcommittee of Ecosystems | 01/05/2024 |
3. Deliver Workshop #1 | 15/6/2024 |
4. Document describing testing indicator 2 delivered to ICCAT Subcommittee of Ecosystems | 01/05/2025 |
5. Deliver Workshop #2 | 15/06/2025 |
6. Deliver Workshop #3 | 01/06/2026 |
7. A summary report of all indicators tested and their performance, as well as documentation to where the software package can be downloaded and used | 15/06/2026 |
5. Payment details
Disbursements will be made according to the following schedule:
1) 20% of the total amount of the contract upon signing of the contract and after receiving a regular invoice which may be submitted at the latest 30 days after the signature of the contract.
2) 20% of the total amount of the contract upon delivery of deliverable 1 (see Table 1 above, technical report documenting the tool’s development) together with the regular invoice.
3) 20% of the total amount of the contract upon delivery of deliverables 2-3 (see Table 1 above), and after the incorporation of any comments and/or edits requested by the SCRS Chair, the Sub- committee on Ecosystem or its convener and the Secretariat, together with the regular invoice.
4) 20% of the total amount of the contract upon delivery of deliverables 4-5 (see Table 1 above), and after the incorporation of any comments and/or edits requested by the SCRS Chair, the Sub- committee on Ecosystem or its convener and the Secretariat, together with the regular invoice.
5) 20% of the total amount of the contract upon delivery of deliverables 6-7 (see Table 1 above), and after the incorporation of any comments and/or edits requested by the SCRS Chair, the Sub- committee on Ecosystem or its convener and the Secretariat, together with the regular invoice.
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6. Submission of proposals
Scientists of public or private Scientific Institutes or companies interested shall submit detailed offer(s) only to the attention of Mr. Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, the Executive Secretary of ICCAT, at the following address: xxxxxxx.xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx and Cc’ing Ms. Xxx Xxxxxxxx (xxx.xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx) by 15 November 2023 (18:00h Madrid time) at the latest, including:
1. A description of methodology to be used;
2. The detailed budget proposal;
3. A short Curriculum vitae of the tender detailing the experience regarding the minimum qualifications defined above;
4. The name, address, and telephone number of the tendering body;
5. The institutional and administrative background of the tendering body (e.g., statutes, type of institution, annual budget, budget control procedures, etc.), if applicable;
6. Acknowledgement of this Quotation request;
7. A statement specifying the extent of agreement with all terms, conditions, and provisions herein included.
8. Details about the following technical issue:
a) a proposal for technical approach on the work, including any reference to progress completed developing similar simulation tools to date and how they can be incorporated as part of the open- source OpenMSE set of packages.
Offers sent after the deadline and/or that fail to furnish the required documentation or information or reject the terms and conditions of the Call for Tenders will not be considered.
Applicants shall provide a detailed budget and clearly identify costs related to main activities of the work (e.g., labour, including estimated number of days of work, travelling and subsistence, equipment, system setting and maintenance).
7. Selection of proposals
The ICCAT Secretariat will review the bid(s). Following the revision process, the ICCAT Executive Secretary will notify the entity selected for the contract as soon as the selection process is completed. Contract will be awarded on the basis of competitive tendering and the evaluation of proposals will be undertaken objectively, consistently and without bias towards particular suppliers. Proposal(s) will be evaluated against a pre-determined set of criteria, which include: (i) cost; (ii) proven track record; (iii) technical merit based on work plan; and (iv) flexibility to future changes to requirements.
8. Duration of the contract
The work under this contract shall be concluded by 15 June 2026 at the latest. If required and strictly necessary, the contract may be is opened for extension, depending on funding availability.
9. Logistics
The text of all reports shall be in MS Word or compatible software. All other documents provided by the Contractor must be in Open Office, Latex, or compatible software. All documents submitted must be in English.
10. Copyright
All the material produced by the Contractor will remain the property of ICCAT. All software written by the Contractor will be licensed under GLP or similar open-source licence and made available to ICCAT in a GitHub repository.