Posted on December 1st, 2023

Term of reference for a service provider in support for the work package 1‘s implementation

Context
NPP-SOL (Modelling and technological tools to prevent surface and ground water bodies from agricultural non-profit source pollution under Mediterranean conditions) is an awarded project under the PRIMA Programme “Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area”, Section 2 (Projects funded by Participant States), – Multi-topic 2022 - Topic 2.1.1 RIA (Prevent and reduce land
and water salinization and pollution due to agri-food activities).
The general objective of NPP-SOL is to prevent diffuse pollution of water resources due to NPS
agricultural pollutants under the Mediterranean soil and environmental conditions, according to the
objectives of the new Green Deal and Farm-to-Fork strategies. NPP-SOL will integrate site-specific
best management practices for improving soil, water, fertilizers and crop management with sitetailored and affordable-costs technologies for preventing natural bodies pollution. Common to all the
adopted methodologies-technologies will be their sustainability and economic efficiency, and their
adherence to circular economy approaches.
CIHEAM Montpellier participates in this project as a partner and is the leader and the co-leader for
different work packages (WP) within the project.

Description of the work package and tasks

Under NPP-SOL’s Work Package 1 for which CIHEAM-IAMM is the leader, different tasks will be undertaken in the objective of:
− Settling of the project Stakeholders-Researchers Hub and of the four living hubs of the four case studies (Italy, Spain, Morocco and Israel)
− Defining the stakeholders’ entities driven advices and guidelines to develop of Modelling Tool (MT) in the WP4.
− Identifying Scaling Up and Scaling Out opportunities of the site-specific best management practices and pollution-preventing technologies.
To assure the quality of these tasks’ implementation, a sub-contracting third party (herein after service provider) is needed to support CIHEAM-IAMM team.

Submission deadline and selection procedure

The deadline for the quotation and proposal submission is the 18th December 2023 at 12 pm (Paris
time)
Proposals should be submitted in English by email with the subject “NPP-SOL WP1 service
provider proposal” addressed to:
Hatem BELHOUCHETTE, NPP-SOL Scientific Member: belhouchette@iamm.fr 
Georgios KLEFTODIMOS, NPP-SOL Scientific Member: kleftodimos@iamm.fr
Aybike Bayraktar: aybayraktar@iamm.fr

  Here is the Term of reference.