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Procurement Notice: Consultancy service provider(s) to develop the toolkit, organize consultation meetings and pilot training with financial institutions, students majoring in finance and banking

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Activity name (as stated in the original proposal): Develop a toolkit for detecting and reporting suspicious transactions related to illegal wildlife trade.

Service (to be performed): Develop the toolkit, organize consultation meetings and pilot training on the use of the toolkit with financial institutions, students majoring in finance and banking.

Location of Service provided: Remote and/or on-site working in Ha Noi/Ninh Binh/HCMC

Duration of Service’s performance: Aug 2025  - April 2026

 

I. Background:  

The Viet Nam's National Risk Assessment (NRA) on money laundering for the period of 2018 – 2022 classified money laundering risk related to environmental crimes as Medium-High with illegal wildlife trade (IWT) considered one of the highest money laundering risk areas within environmental crime.

Results of WCS Viet Nam’s survey in 2023 revealed that the capacity and experience of the staff of commercial banks and other financial institutions in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) work is generally good, but their capacity and experience in IWT-related AML work is still low. The main reasons are that they have not been trained on IWT-related AML yet. So, they have suggested that there should be capacity building in IWT-related AML specifically designed for staff of the commercial banks and non-bank financial service providers. The program should include basic knowledge of AML in general and IWT-related AML in particular, legal framework for IWT-related AML, and measures on preventing IWT-related money laundering risks such as financial flows red flags and key risk indicators, reporting suspicious activity, AML alert analysis framework etc.

Therefore, WCS is seeking a consulting agency to support us in developing a toolkit specifically for financial institutions to detect and report IWT-related suspicious transactions and to test the toolkit with financial institutions, finance and banking students.

II. Objectives:

The consulting service will aim to:

  • Enhance the capacity of Vietnamese financial institutions, particularly commercial banks and non-bank financial service providers, to detect and report suspicious transactions related to IWT.
  • Improve the quality of IWT-related suspicious transaction reports (STRs) submitted by commercial banks and non-bank financial service providers to the State Bank of Viet Nam.

III. Description of work:

Activities

Output/ deliverables

Implementation period

Allotted time (# of days)

Payment schedule

Activity 1: Develop a toolkit on detecting and reporting suspicious transactions related to illegal wildlife trade for financial institutions in Viet Nam

1.1. Develop an outline for the toolkit:

  • Collect and review available literature that provides guidance on identifying and reporting suspicious transactions in general, and those related to IWT in particular.
  • Develop a detailed outline for the toolkit based on the findings from the literature review and the needs assessment.
  • Organize 01 consultation meeting on the toolkit outline
  • A detailed outline for the toolkit
  • A minute of consultation meeting

Aug - Sept 2025

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

The first payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

1.2. Develop the toolkit content:

  • Develop the full content of the toolkit based on the agreed toolkit outline
  • Collect feedback from relevant national and international experts and WCS on the draft toolkit and revise the document
  •  
  • The draft toolkit is developed, consulted and revised

Sept - Oct 2025

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Second payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

 

1.3. Pre-test/pilot, revise and finalize the toolkit

  • Pretest/pilot the toolkit at the two training courses for financial institutions’ officers (under Activity 2)
  • Review and finalize the toolkit
  • The toolkit is pretested, and finalized

Jan – Feb 2026

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Final payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

 

Activity 2: Organize two training courses on detecting and reporting suspicious transactions related to illegal wildlife trade for financial institutions’ officers in Viet Nam

Before the training:

  • Develop training programs based on discussion with WCS
  • Prepare the required documents to submit for internal and official approval from relevant authorities to organize the training courses.
  • Training agenda
  • Approval letters

Sept - Oct  2025

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

Second payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

Organization of the training courses:

  • Coordinate with WCS to organize two training courses in Ha Noi/Ninh Binh and Ho Chi Minh city, ensuring both content and logistics of the training courses are well-managed and implemented as planned. Tasks include, but are not limited to, technical and logistical facilitation.
  • 02 training courses organized with the participation of 70 officers from banks and non-bank financial institutions
  • Presentations of the related topics
  • Report of the training

Nov - Dec 2025

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Third payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

Activity 3: Organize a training follow-up technical update meeting for financial institutions’ officers in Viet Nam

Before the meeting:

  • Develop training programs based on discussion with WCS
  • Prepare the required documents to submit for internal and official approval from relevant authorities to organize the training courses.
  • Training agenda
  • Approval letters

Sept - Oct 2025

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Second payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

Organization of the meeting:

  • Coordinate with WCS to organize one technical meeting in Ha Noi or Ho Chi Minh city, ensuring both content and logistics of the meeting are well-managed and implemented as planned.
  • A training follow-up technical update meeting organized with the participation of at least 20-25 active officers who participated in the above training courses.
  • Presentations of the related topics
  • Report of the meeting

Jan 2026

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Final payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

 

Activity 4: Organize a raising awareness program on financial risks related to illegal wildlife trade for banking and finance students

  • Coordinate with WCS to organize program activities, including a seminar and a training course, ensuring both content and logistics are well-managed and implemented as planned.
  • Seminar and training agenda
  • A seminar with the participation of at least 50 students
  • Presentations of the related topics
  • A training course organized with the participation of at least 30 students
  • Reports of the events

Aug - Nov 2025

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Third payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

Activity 5: Conduct post-training evaluations (02 training courses for financial institutions’ officers, and 01 training course for banking and finance students)
  • Develop questionnaires to survey the trainees’ application of acquired knowledge and skills in their work and studies, and recommendations for subsequent activities.
  • Contact and collect survey answers from trainees who participated in the training via Google forms.
  • Develop a brief report on the training results and recommendations for future intervention activities.
  • A brief report of post-training evaluation

April - May 2026

Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

 

Final payment after the deliverables are submitted and approved by WCS

Total allotted time (total working days): Determined based on the service provider’s proposal and approved by WCS

IV. Requirements (selection criteria):

The consulting agency must meet the following criteria:

  • All members have at least master's degree in economics, commerce, finance, banking or relevant fields.
  • At least 5-10 proven years of experience in research related to financial issues, especially in anti-money laundering, which includes but not limited to the development of survey/assessment protocol, data gathering, development of a toolkit/guidelines, and the ability to co-host seminars, training courses, and technical meetings for officers of financial institutions, finance – banking students.
  • Experienced in researching IWT-related money laundering risk.
  • Must have a member or /members of a research/training institute/centre in the state banking system.
  • Able to reach out to AML authorities (including the State Bank of Viet Nam), commercial banks, and financial service providers around the country and engage them in the activities.

V. Application procedure:

Interested candidate(s) should submit their applications to vietnamconsulting@wcs.org  by 17:00 on August 29, 2025. The application should include:

1. A technical proposal including the operational profiles, personnel plan, CVs, and link to or soft copies of related products

2. Financial proposal (in VND, estimated total number of working days and daily rates of member(s), field trips costs, if any, including all taxes and fees such as personal income tax, VAT, etc.)

Note:

- Email vietnamconsulting@wcs.org to request suggested templates for technical and financial proposals.

-Only shortlisted candidate(s) will be contacted

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