Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

This is a Prior Information Notice only (PIN). Publication and call for competition will be conducted once scope of work is fully defined and approved. DFID Ethiopia is seeking a Technical Service Provider to provide technical assistance to the Federal Ministry of Education and its key directorates, agencies, regional education bureaus, woredas, districts and schools to improve the quality of education children and young people receive using a results based approach to drive performance. Technical expertise will transform school leadership and teacher performance, especially in poorly performing regions and schools, producing better skilled school leavers, and enabling disadvantaged girls and children from poorer communities to thrive. The UK will support the Government of Ethiopia's 4-year General Education Quality Improvement Programme for Equity (GEQIP-E) in improving the quality of education children and young people receive using a results-based approach to drive performance. Technical expertise will transform school leadership and teacher performance, especially in poorly performing regions and schools, producing better skilled school leavers, and enabling disadvantaged girls and children from poorer communities to thrive. DFID is seeking a Technical Service Provider to provide technical assistance to the Federal Ministry of Education (FMoH) and its key directorates, agencies, regional education bureaus, woredas, districts and schools. The technical assistance is strategically linked to deepening the impact of the financial aid and the intended results to be delivered by GEQIP-E. The Technical Service Provider(s) is expected to work with the FMoE and all 11 regional education bureaus and targeted woredas, schools, school principals and teachers on improved education delivery and school leadership and its impact on quality, equity and accountability in schools. In addition they will work with research institutions, directorates, assessment centres to improve data collection, monitoring and evaluation and demand-led research. Collaboration with key technical partners such as World Bank, USAID, UNICEF and Finland will be necessary and some flexibility in targets and delivery based on need will be required. We will be holding an Early Market Engagement Event in DFID East Kilbride on Thurs 24th May and in DFID Ethiopia on Wed 30th May. For further information please register on the DFID Supplier Portal: https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice/ and to secure a place at the event you must submit registration via Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MV8JSD3 before 17.5.2018. Points to Note: — In your DFID Supplier Portal account/profile, please ensure you have selected "UK" and "Procurement" under the Countries option, — Registering interest on the DFID Supplier Portal is not registration to attend the event, further instructions on this will be communicated via the DFID Supplier Portal, — To confirm this is an EME and no tender documents are available at this stage.