11.3.1 Design and construction supervision services for four (4) floating parks

Local and regional governments are already responsible for over 65% of the SDG targets, most of them linked to basic service provision from water, sanitation, mobility, climate action, health or education. Cities and territories are playing a big part in the implementation of SDGs, which are becoming a new tool for strategic planning and budgeting in the mid to long-term. Since 2015, local governments and their associations have been increasingly active in promoting the SDGs through advocacy, working with their local population and partners in transposing the spirit of agenda 2030 in cities and territories. Local governments have also started to use SDGs as a strategic framework to deliver better and more innovative public services linked to SDG targets and indicators. As part of the SDG local action project, UNDP is one of the implementing partners of the Mayors Challenge, a global initiative to reimagine the most essential services that cities deliver to residents.

Within this context, UNDP seeks to procure design and construction supervision services for the implementation of the Floating parks project in Pasig city, Philippines, one of the winning projects of the 2025 Mayors Challenge.

Pasig city is a highly urbanized city located in the eastern boundary of metro Manila, Philippines. Among the basic services the City Government of Pasig (CGP) is required to provide for free are parks, playgrounds, sports facilities and equipment, and similar facilities. However, based on the 2020 census of population, recreational and open spaces only account for about 0.60 sqm per capita. With Pasig City already 96% built up, the best way to address this spatial inequality and promote residents’ connection to their culturally and historically significant waterways, is to capitalize on the city’s riverside easements. In areas where there are existing flood walls, this means designing around and with said flood walls.

The Pasig floating parks project aims to address an extreme green space deficit in a city that has no undeveloped land available for conventional parks by deploying a network of buoyant recreational structures on the city’s waterways, co-designed and co-governed by the surrounding communities.

Embedded within Metro Manila, Pasig’s residents particularly those in informal settlements along its rivers and urban creeks have no access to outdoor public space. Every available square meter is occupied by housing, commerce, or infrastructure. Standard urban greening approaches simply do not apply here.

Without an unconventional solution, the city’s most vulnerable residents will continue to be denied a basic element of urban quality of life.

Led by the Pasig City Government, the project will deliver a resident-governed blue-green infrastructure model by:

1. Constructing four floating parks using permanent concrete pontoon systems anchored in the city’s waterways engineered specifically for Pasig’s typhoon- exposed, flood-prone tropical environment serving approximately 50,000 residents across four barangays (districts).
2. Establishing a resident-led Parks Governance Council drawn from surrounding barangays, with formal authority over maintenance, programming, and long-term stewardship of the parks.
3. Integrating floating wetlands for water treatment and ecological restoration, positioning the parks as functional environmental infrastructure for the waterways, not merely recreational add-ons.
4. Building the evidence base, partnerships, and policy positioning needed for national agency adoption and replication of the model across Metro Manila.

The contractor’s responsibilities under this assignment are limited to the development of the detailed design, preparation of the technical documentation required for the procurement of the construction work, and supervision of the construction phase.

Please note: to ensure transparency, fairness, and the avoidance of conflicts of interest, the contractor awarded this assignment, including any parent company, subsidiary, affiliate, or associated firm, shall not be eligible to participate in the subsequent procurement process for the construction works arising from the design developed under this contract.

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