22 April 2025
(Technical Proposal - Password-Protected PDF file)
(Financial Proposal - Password-Protected PDF file)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Hiring of an Agency for “Interior Design and Build” for the CDRI Secretariat
at IIPA Bhawan, IIPA Campus, New Delhi
1. Background
1.1. About CDRI
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an International Organization, recognized vide Gazette Notification F. No. D-II/451/16(3)/2021 by the Government of India, is a multistakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development. As of April 2025, CDRI has 50 members, including 43 countries and seven international organizations spread across the world. CDRI is gearing towards internationalizing its workforce and the new headquarters (secretariat) has to reflect its global stature.
1.2. Mission and Strategic Priorities
CDRI’s mission is to support countries to upgrade their systems to ensure the disaster and climate resilience of existing and future infrastructure. To do so, CDRI focuses on three strategic priorities – (a) providing technical assistance to countries to address vulnerabilities related to natural hazards in their infrastructure systems; (b) enhancing capabilities of infrastructure professionals through capacity building initiatives; and (c) advocating for the importance of disaster resilience in infrastructure to a global audience.
1.3. CDRI Headquarters (Secretariat)
The CDRI Secretariat for the coalition is headquartered at New Delhi, India.
2. Terms of Reference
CDRI intends to hire an agency for the “interior design and build” of the new CDRI Secretariat at IIPA Bhawan, IIPA Campus, New Delhi.
2.1. Objective
Design, plan, and build state-of-the-art office interior facilities for the new CDRI Secretariat so as to represent and complement the global stature of CDRI and hand over the fully-functional office space by 15 July 2025.
2.2. Scope of Work
This is a turn-key project for office interior design and build. The tasks include design (architectural drawings including office interiors, MEP designs, acoustics, lighting, etc.), planning, procurement, execution, build, commission, handover, and one (1) year of Defect Liability Period (DLP) for all fixtures from the date of handover.
The detailed Scope of Work (SOW) is attached in Annexure I.
3. Qualifications
Qualifications for interested applicants are as below:
- The agency should have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in interior design and building of office spaces above 10,000 sq. ft. (approx. 929 sq. mt.) carpet area.
- The agency should have successfully completed at least two (2) projects each of value INR 20 million (INR 2 crores) and above, in India, within the past five (5) years. The agency will have to submit relevant work orders.
- The agency must have an average annual turnover of a minimum of INR 5 crores during the last three (3) financial years ending 31 March 2024 in respect of providing similar services.
- Abovementioned projects should be with International Organization(s), UN agencies, The World Bank (WB), and renowned global corporations.
- The agency should not have been blacklisted by government authorities, International/multilateral Organizations, or UN Agencies. An undertaking to this effect shall be submitted by the Agency.
The proposal must be sent to the email address tender.projects@cdri.world with the subject line: "Hiring of an Agency for Interior Design and Build for CDRI Secretariat.”
Interested bidders are requested to submit their proposal by 23:59 hrs (IST) on 12 May 2025. Responses received after the stipulated time or not in accordance will be summarily rejected.
Please ensure that your proposal should be sent ONLY to the ABOVE-MENTIONED email ID before the closing date & time. Proposals sent/copied to any other email ID (other than the above) OR received after the bid closing date & time (mentioned above) will not be entertained.
For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below.