Request for Proposal – Siga Damu Inc Pte Ltd

Remote Technical Assistance for Hatchery Feasibility, Regulatory Pathways, and Compliance Support

Published 20th June 2026

Purpose

Siga Damu Inc Pte Ltd invites specialist service providers to submit a proposal for remote technical assistance services relating to hatchery feasibility, benchmarking, regulatory pathways, traceability, compliance, and selected technical inputs under the specialist-led hybrid delivery model.

Background

Under the revised delivery approach, the service provider is not part of the in-country delivery team but supports the overall programme remotely by contributing technical inputs that inform decisions before and after the July 2026 mission, and during follow-on implementation work.

Within this model, the company-nominated lead provides the overall strategic, technical, commercial, and planning leadership for the assignment, including production review, technical design, work-planning, and integration of recommendations into the investment readiness package.

The successful firm will act as a technical assistance provider to Siga Damu Inc and its company-nominated lead, supplying desk-based technical analysis and advisory inputs for use within the wider project process.

Role boundaries and coordination

The successful service provider will deliver technical assistance services to Siga Damu Inc within the overall project structure led by the company-nominated lead.

The provider’s role is to supply remote technical analysis, benchmarking, regulatory and compliance input, hatchery feasibility input, and other specialist advisory support. The provider is not expected to duplicate the company-nominated lead’s responsibilities for strategic planning, market assessment, production and product logic, technical design, overall work-planning, or final integration of recommendations into the investment readiness package.

All substantive outputs produced by the service provider should be framed as technical assistance inputs for Siga Damu Inc’s use within the overall project, including for review and integration by the company-nominated lead where relevant.

Scope of required services

The service provider will be expected to:

1. Provide mobilisation support through identification of key technical questions, benchmark materials, and likely regulatory lines of enquiry before travel.
2. Provide remote support to the July 2026 mission through technical inputs on hatchery feasibility, cross-jurisdiction benchmarking, regulatory pathways, and traceability considerations.
3. Review post-mission findings and prepare a short note on hatchery, traceability, export, and regulatory implications.
4. Undertake desk-based hatchery feasibility input, benchmark review, and regulatory pathway analysis relevant to Fiji operations and export strategy.
5. Provide targeted support during execution where implementation raises hatchery, compliance, or export pathway questions.
6. Provide final advisory input on regulatory dependencies, technical considerations, and scale-up implications for inclusion in the investment readiness package.

Required deliverables

Proposals should demonstrate the proposing firm’s ability to produce the following deliverables:

1. A benchmarking note drawing on comparable jurisdictions and operating models.
2. Targeted advice on compliance, permits, biosecurity, and export pathway issues arising during implementation.
3. A final advisory note addressing the regulatory dependencies and technical considerations relevant to scale-up, prepared in a form suitable to support grant applications for hatchery funding.
4. Hatchery costing, including CAPEX and OPEX inputs suitable for financial modelling.
5. Inputs into specific business plan chapters as assigned by Siga Damu Inc, limited to the provider’s specialist technical areas and not extending to overall business-plan architecture, strategic framing, market analysis, or final integration of recommendations.

Proposal requirements

The service provider’s proposal should include:

• Understanding of the assignment and decision-support role within the wider hybrid delivery model.
• Confirmation that the service provider understands its role as a technical assistance provider to Siga Damu Inc within a project structure led by the company-nominated lead.
• Proposed methodology for hatchery feasibility, benchmarking, and regulatory analysis.
• Description of the team or named personnel who will undertake the work.
• Workplan and timing aligned to the July mission, post-mission review, and final consolidation stages.
• Fee proposal and assumptions, including day rates and any disbursements.
• Key assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, and information requirements from Siga Damu Inc and the company-nominated lead, as well as from other specialist inputs where relevant.
• Relevant experience in hatchery systems, aquaculture benchmarking, biosecurity, compliance, and export pathway analysis.
• Proposed format for advisory notes and integration of outputs into the business planning process.

Indicative level of effort

The narrative anticipates approximately 6 remote days of advisory input across mobilisation, post-mission review, hatchery feasibility, implementation support, and final consolidation.

Because this document is also intended to support obtaining two quotations, respondents should clearly state any alternative level-of-effort options or pricing assumptions where different scopes could materially affect the fee.

Evaluation considerations

Proposals are expected to be assessed against the following considerations:

• Depth of expertise in hatchery feasibility, benchmarking, and relevant regulatory and export pathways.
• Demonstrated understanding of the service provider’s role as a technical assistance provider to Siga Damu Inc within an overall project structure led by the company-nominated lead.
• Ability to provide practical, decision-oriented remote advice that supports in-country implementation without duplicating functions assigned elsewhere in the project structure.
• Quality and usability of costing, regulatory, and scale-up inputs for integration into financial modelling and the investment readiness package.
• Value for money, clarity of assumptions, and responsiveness of the proposed delivery model.

Service agreement interface

The selected proposal, or one of the quoted variants if multiple quotations are obtained, is expected to form the basis of a subsequent service agreement. The final agreement will confirm scope, deliverables, timelines, commercial terms, review points, coordination arrangements, and role boundaries.

Submission of Proposal and Queries

Your proposal should identify the scope breakdown and proposed fees for each of the phases of this assignment as contained herein. Please submit your queries and final proposal by email in PDF format by Friday 26th June, 5pm Fiji time to:

Jodi Smith, jodi@matanataki.com  

Ilisaniti Malodali Soneqe, imalodalim@gmail.com