An Agency to Provide UNFPA with Photography and Video Services in Support of UNFPA’s Advocacy and Programme Communication Activities

DEADLINE: Monday, 22th January 2024

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REQUEST FOR QUOTATION

RFQ Nº UNFPA/IND/RFQ/2024/002

Dear Sir/Madam,

UNFPA hereby solicits a quotation for the following service:

“An agency to provide UNFPA with photography and video services in support of UNFPA’s advocacy and programme communication activities”

This Request for Quotation is open to all legally-constituted organizations that can provide the requested services and have the legal capacity to deliver/perform in the country, or through an authorized representative.

I. About UNFPA

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency and has been operating in India since 1974. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled ensuring rights and choices for all.

UNFPA focuses on empowering young people with critical life skills including the provision of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services, ensuring universal access to high quality sexual and reproductive health and rights, and addressing gender discrimination and harmful practices such as gender biased sex selection and early, child and forced marriage. UNFPA leads in supporting the government in using demographic data to understand population dynamics, and to inform public policies and programmes, including those related to ageing. To know more about UNFPA, please click here.

Service Requirements/Terms of Reference (ToR)

Objectives and scope of the Services

The India Country Office is now in its 10^th Country Programme (CP-10). CP-10 envisions an India where every woman and young person, including those from the most vulnerable groups, enjoys gender equality, fully realizes sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and fully contributes to sustainable development. Guided by the new UNFPA Strategic Plan, 2022-2025, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the new country programme will galvanize efforts to end preventable maternal deaths, unmet need for family planning, and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including in humanitarian situations. 17. The country programme was developed in consultation with national and State governments, civil society, United Nations organizations and other stakeholders, including women and youth-led organizations, based on the principles of inclusion, human rights and gender equality.

In this context, the contracted Photographer and Videographer will play an active role in documenting UNFPA India’s on- ground work and events in Delhi/NCR, and UNFPA’s 4 focus states namely Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan (across their correlating priority districts and anywhere else as required by the contracting office) . The contractor will capture creative and compelling photographs and videos which engages audiences in a dynamic, interactive and meaningful way and sparks conversations around issues related to UNFPA’s three transformative results:

Ending preventable maternal death
Ending unmet need for family planning
Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

The selected photographs and videos will be used for UNFPA’s advocacy and communication purposes and be published in various publications, reports, websites, presentations, merchandise, and communication for development campaign materials, and will be owned by UNFPA for perpetuity.

Details of the Assignment

The contractor will provide digital photographs and videos for production of human interest stories, social media materials, campaigns, events, high-level visits, and website content on an as-needed basis.
Photographic and video services will be required throughout the year, on an as-needed basis.
The contractor must have rich experience in the specified field includinghaving her/his own photographic and video equipment (cameras, lenses, lights, filters, tripods, mics), as well as photo and video-related editing and finishing software.
Service provision will include field trips to UNFPA project sites within the State and communities in which UNFPA is present to capture impact in various settings and on occasions specialized conceptual photos and videos.
In addition to supplying photos and videos (including raw photos, rushes and unmixes), the contractor will also be required to submit photo and video captions.
The captions should include names of subjects included in the photo/video, their age, institution and location, and description of the photo/video.
On assignment for UNFPA, the contractor is expected to show appropriate sensitivity towards the people they are photographing and filming
The contractor is also required to follow UNFPA photography and video standards and to comply with UNFPA policies and procedures, including Policy on Conduct.
The contractor will obtain the relevant written consent for photographs and videos usage from concerned people/authorities.

Deliverables:

When on assignment, the contractor will be expected to deliver the following services (minimum):

Within five days of shooting for the purposes of providing photos/videos for publications, promotional materials, website or campaigns, a complete set of images/videos (min 100 images and 5 Videos are expected to be delivered per day of work), saved chronologically. In addition, an edited set of 25 treated photos/videos (Subject to change in Requirement)
All digital photographs and videos must contain complete caption information in “file info” and separate word format captions list. Caption information should consist of: date, place, subject names and age, and brief description of the situation photographed
All deliverables to be submitted electronically. All products developed by the candidate will become the property of UNFPA.
All materials to be transferred electronically (all rushes, unmixes and raw files)

Instructions for submission

Proposals should be prepared based on the guidelines set forth in Section III above, along with a properly filled out and signed price quotation form and are to be sent by email to the contact person indicated below no later than: Monday, 22nd January 2024.

Name of contact person at UNFPA: Bids India

Email address of contact person: Bids.india@unfpa.org

To Apply:

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