3ie and UNHCR inviting Proposals from Companies and NGOs

Deadline: 23-Nov-21

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Evaluation Service welcomes proposals from companies, or commercial arms of academic institutions / non-governmental organizations located in any country.

The Evaluation Service is particularly keen to attract proposals from a range of potential suppliers – small and large; with diverse teams and strongly grounded and contextualized evaluation experience and skills.

Components

The Request for Proposal (RFP) will have two components:

the main Frame Agreement that will be issued to cover Strategic and Thematic Evaluations (STEs) called Lot 1, and
Frame Agreements that will be awarded to individual firms that will be selected to undertake Country Strategy Evaluations (CSEs) called Lot 2 and Emergency Response Evaluations (EREs) called Lot 3 covering the entire period.

Companies can submit proposals to any, or all, of the three Lots. Proposals will be assessed against the requirements for each Lot; the result of the proposal for one Lot will not affect the outcome of the proposal(-s) for (an-)other Lot(s). However, in case a vendor scores highest overall scores for multiple lots, UNHCR reserves the right to award the lot of it’s choosing to such vendor and offer the other lot to the second highest scorer.

Duration: UNHCR may award Frame Agreement(s) with initial duration of 3 (three) years, potentially extendable for a further period of one plus one (1+1) years. The successful bidder(s) will be requested to maintain their quoted price model for the duration of agreement.

Criteria

Company Overview
- Brief background and history
- Company’s capacity to perform evaluations in keeping with international standards and experience in designing, managing and implementing complex global and operational evaluations, including an annex of all major evaluations conducted over the past three years (with dates and URLs)
- Main areas of focus and core business
- Geographical presence and / or established agreements with evaluation/ research companies in relevant geographies.
- Company profile, registration certificate and last audit reports
- Description of the support facilities (back-stopping) that the organization offers to evaluation teams
- Three professional references for recent relevant evaluations conducted
Relevant past experience
- Areas of sectoral expertise
- Geographical expertise
- Presence in or evidence of partnerships/collaborations with other organizations in delivering evaluation services including regionally and locally based companies as applicable.
Understanding of the requirements for services, proposed approach, solutions, methodology and outputs
- Specific examples (3) of evaluations conducted for UNHCR, other UN agency, International Financial Institution or government (as relevant) and methodologies used, scale of the evaluation, and specific sectors covered related to complex humanitarian and/or development issues and submit links to three recent evaluations.
- Roster of CVs of Evaluation Team Leaders under contract by the company, highlighting three leaders who merit particular attention against the specifications of this FA.
- Evidence of access to and availability of consultants who fit the requirements of team membership. Consideration will be given here to the overall diversity of the team proposed – including nationality, geography and gender.
- Brief description of organization’s approach, and how it will address UNHCR’s requirements laid out herein. Evidence of relevant methodological strength and innovation; application of the norms and principles relevant to UNHCR; and approaches that incorporate the views and feedback to persons of concern / evaluation stakeholders.