Call for Expressions of Interest - Firms – Pakistan BRAVE

DAI is an integrated professional services and advisory firm that provides project design and delivery, management consulting, and financial services to companies, investors, and governments worldwide.

DAI Pakistan is implementing the Institutional Strengthening (IS) Component of the FCDO-funded BRAVE (Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies) programme in Pakistan. BRAVE-IS is an adaptive institutional strengthening and technical assistance programme designed to strengthen the capacity of federal, provincial, and district institutions to better anticipate, plan for, and manage climate and disaster risks.

The programme supports a transition across Pakistan's climate and disaster resilience architecture: from reactive disaster response to anticipatory risk management; from fragmented interventions to integrated systems; from policy formulation to implementation; and from ex-post disaster financing to ex-ante risk financing. Work is structured across three areas:

• Climate-Smart Public Investment Reform – embedding climate and disaster risk into public investment planning, infrastructure design, and sector delivery
• Institutional Capacity for Anticipatory Disaster Management – strengthening preparedness, early warning, and operational effectiveness across national and sub-national disaster management institutions
• Support for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance – strengthening government capacity to mobilise, structure, and deploy climate and disaster risk finance

DAI Pakistan is building a roster for the Technical Assistance Facility (TAF), comprising firms that can be pre-qualified and engaged on short- or long-term assignments across the programme's thematic areas and target geographies. Assignments are demand-driven, time-bound, and linked to clearly defined deliverables and institutional reform objectives.

Note: BRAVE-IS is a technical assistance programme and will not fund civil works, procurement of equipment, infrastructure investments, or recurring operational expenditures.

Firms should demonstrate:

• An established track record in delivering technical assistance or advisory assignments to government institutions in Pakistan, or in comparable development contexts
• Direct experience engaging with federal and/or provincial government institutions, including NDMA, PDMAs, P&D Departments, EAD, MoCC&EC, or equivalent
• In-house technical capacity to staff and manage complex, multi-deliverable assignments, with access to qualified national and/or international specialists
• Ability to manage assignments adaptively in politically complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Strong quality assurance, reporting, and deliverable management processes

National firms are strongly encouraged to apply. Consortia must identify a lead entity and define the specific contribution of each partner.

The table below lists the types of firms sought for the TAF roster and the expertise required under each. Firms should clearly indicate in their cover letter which firm type(s) they are applying for. Applications across multiple categories are welcome where genuine capability exists.

1

• Firms with experience in institutional reform, governance, PEA, public administration, P&D/Finance systems, public-sector performance improvement and intergovernmental coordination

2

• Civil, hydrology, drainage, flood protection, irrigation, roads, bridges, municipal infrastructure, building codes, geotechnical and resilient infrastructure design firms. Urban planning firms, spatial planning firms, zoning and land-use regulation firms, municipal planning firms, and firms working on floodplain management or resilient city planning.

3

• Firms working on climate risk assessment, adaptation planning, climate screening, EIAs, environmental regulation, resilience strategies, NAP/NDC implementation and climate policy.

4

• Chartered accountancy firms, public financial management consultancies, audit firms, VfM firms, budget analysis firms and firms with experience in climate budget tagging or expenditure tracking. Firms that can develop bankable climate projects, climate finance proposals, GCF/GEF documentation, PPP structures, green bonds, blended finance models, carbon market pipelines and MRV systems.

5

• Firms specialising in GIS, satellite imagery, remote sensing, drones, AI-enabled risk analytics, modelling, dashboards, MIS/DMIS, telemetry, sensor networks and decision-support systems. 

6

• Firms/organisations with experience in DRM systems, contingency planning, anticipatory action, early warning, disaster simulations and emergency coordination.

7

• Institutions with expertise in climate policy, public finance, PEA, water, DRM, social protection, carbon markets, spatial analytics, resilience evidence and policy translation.

8

• Insurance companies, telecom firms, fintechs, digital payments firms, agri-tech firms, solar/micro-grid firms, water solutions firms, cold-chain firms, waste-management firms and companies offering resilience-relevant services.

9

• Firms that can design and deliver practical capacity-building, simulation exercises, government training modules, institutional coaching, SOP rollouts and change-management support.

Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis following the deadline. The process is as follows:

1. Submission of firm profile and cover letter by the stated deadline.
2. Review and shortlisting of applications by DAI Pakistan based on relevance of experience, technical capability, and the firm type(s) applied for.
3. Shortlisted firms will be added to the TAF roster against the service area(s) for which they have been pre-qualified.
4. As specific assignments are identified under the programme, DAI Pakistan will develop Terms of Reference (TORs) for the relevant piece of work and invite pre-qualified firms in the applicable category to submit a technical and financial proposal.
5. Proposals will be evaluated against the criteria set out in the TORs. DAI Pakistan will select the most suitable firm and issue a formal engagement.

Pre-qualification does not guarantee assignment. Assignments will be issued based on programme needs, the quality of proposals received, and fit with specific task requirements.

Please submit the following to Brave-is@dai.com with the subject line 'BRAVE-IS – Call for Firm Profiles – [Firm Type(s)]':

• Firm profile (maximum 8 pages) covering: organisational overview; firm type(s) applied for; relevant past assignments with client references; team composition and key personnel; and presence or operational reach in Pakistan
• A brief cover letter (maximum one page) specifying the firm type(s) you are applying for and outlining why your firm is well-placed to support BRAVE-IS

DAI Pakistan reserves the right to accept or reject any application without providing reasons.