Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

DFID is seeking a service provider for the supply of technical assistance (TA) in nutrition as part of our package of support to the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. This will include both short-term and long-term TA to a range of clients. The value of tender will be announced in due course, and the funding will be for a four year period between 2016 — 2020. It is DFID's intention to run a procurement process to identify a supplier for the provision of the below services in the first quarter of 2016. The delivery of this TA will require suppliers to have the appropriate expertise and experience to build capacity in SUN countries in the following areas: - Enhancing the utility of country plans for scaling up nutrition programming-Improving the efficiency of utilisation of financial resources by countries-Increasing country access to financial resources for scaling up nutrition programming; - Strengthening the use of data by countries for improving decision-making and accountability-Scaling up implementation of high-impact actions in nutrition at the national and sub-national levels. Suppliers will need to ensure that they have access to highly qualified experts in different disciplines and areas, including: economists, statisticians, social scientists, and nutritionists; and specialists in public health, agriculture and food security, social protection, WASH, education, governance, gender, evaluation and resilience. They should have access to experts fluent in English, French and Spanish at a minimum, with Russian and Arabic language skills desirable assets. In order to ensure this breadth of TA expertise, bids from consortia of partners with diverse and differentiated expertise across nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive sectors will be welcomed. DFID will be hosting an Early Market Engagement Event about this planned procurement. The primary objectives of this event are to raise awareness of the opportunity; to allow bidders to ask questions ahead of the procurement process; and to provide an opportunity for bidders to meet and further discussions on the development of consortia. The event will be in the form of a 1.5 hour session that will take place at DFID's offices at 22 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2EG, on 12.2.2016 between 10:30 and 12:00. DFID and a representative from the SUN Movement Secretariat will present the opportunity and a set of key questions to stimulate the discussion. Parties interested in attending the market engagement event should register at the following link: https://wasongamisumi.wufoo.com/forms/zedcx3g1evsldb/Draft Terms of Reference and further supporting documents will be available on the DFID supplier portal (https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice/). All communications regarding this opportunity will be communicated via the DFID supplier portal. We are happy to receive questions in advance of this event, which DFID will respond to at the event. The discussion headlines will also be published after the event on the Supplier Portal. We will not disclose the source of the questions and answers. Due to space restrictions we request only one attendee per interested party. For any further details please get in touch with Wasonga Misumi — W-Misumi@dfid.gov.uk