Supplier Day - Provision of Agricultural Commercial and Development Activities in Columbia

The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) would like to invite interested parties to attend a Supplier Day concerning the provision of the agricultural commercial and development activities planned for 2021 in Colombia.

Over the past 3 years, the UK's Prosperity Fund (PF) for Colombia has been working to achieve poverty reduction and gender equality in the country through inclusive economic growth. One of its priority areas has been agriculture, in which it seeks to improve the capacity of rural smallholders, especially female farmers. It does this by bringing new technology, know-how and insurance services from the UK to Colombia.

The agricultural sector in Colombia needs greater resilience to factors such as the climate change, which is expected to heighten risks in the sector. For this reason, the PF plans to launch a competition that aims to develop affordable agri-insurance products tailor-made for smallholders in Colombia. This seeks to facilitate the adoption of new risk management models, innovations and approaches that are available in the UK market.

During 2021 the PF will launch three agricultural activities i) Agri-insurance Challenge Fund, ii) Agritech trade mission to Colombia and iii) a conference to promote the diversification of non-traditional crops (Biolink). The supplier would deliver the activities mentioned in collaboration with the PF and other relevant stakeholders.

The virtual Supplier Day will be hosted on 2nd of September 2020 and it is expected to start at 3:00 p.m. GMT (9:00 a.m. Colombian time).

To attend this event, please login or register on Foreign & Commonwealth Office e-Procurement Portal https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk select PQQ*_960 and follow the instruction. The registration of interest should be no later than 5 p.m. GMT (11:00 p.m. Colombian Time) on 26th of August 2020. Should you have any difficulties with the registration, please call the helpdesk: 0800 069 8630 / +44 203 608 4013 or email: [email protected]. Any queries related to Supplier Day should be submitted via the Portal's messaging function linked to this PQQ or in case of difficulties with the platform to [email protected]

(*Please note that the name PQQ is used due to the limitation of the platform and does not represent a procurement stage).

At this stage, FCO seeks expression of interest in participating in the Supplier Day. Non-participation in this event will not be taken into account in any future procurement. The purpose of this notice is to alert the market to this upcoming opportunity and to inform the specifications - it is not a call to competition and does not constitute the commencement of the procurement process.

Formal advertisement of the opportunity on Contracts-Finder, Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and the FCO e-Procurement Portal (https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk) will provide full procurement details.

Additional information: To attend this event, please login or register on Foreign & Commonwealth Office e-Procurement Portal https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk select PQQ_960 and follow the instruction. The registration of interest should be no later than 5 p.m. GMT (11:00 p.m. Colombian Time) on 26th of August 2020. Should you have any difficulties with the registration, please call the helpdesk: 0800 069 8630 / +44 203 608 4013 or email: [email protected]. Any queries related to Supplier Day should be submitted via the Portal's messaging function linked to this PQQ_960 or in case of difficulties with the platform to [email protected].