Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

To support Invest Africa programme, DFID seeks a suitable qualified M & E service provider to design and undertake rigorous monitoring and evaluation activities. The budget for services to be provided under this contract will be up to 7 500 000 GBP (up to 4 000 000 GBP for monitoring activities, up to 3 500 000 for evaluation activities). The budget is for the planned 7 years (84 months) duration of the contract. The M & E supplier will be responsible for delivering monitoring and evaluation activities outlined within the Terms of Reference of this ITT. The Invest Africa programme aims to generate 1 200 000 000 of additional FDI by 2025, 13 750 direct jobs and 90 000 direct and indirect jobs. This will be achieved through the “main contractor” for Invest Africa contract, who will deliver transaction facilitation and technical assistance support to firms. To support the programme, DFID will contract 1 service provider, or lead consortium member who will be responsible to design and undertake rigorous monitoring and evaluation activities. The contract is expected to run for 7 years and will consist of 2 phases: (i) inception and (ii) implementation. The monitoring activities will require monitoring results across the whole Invest Africa programme to enable its cumulative progress to be tracked and reported, to assess the main contractor’s performance, to support learning by assessing the overall approach, its effectiveness and to use this analysis to provide strategic advice to the governance bodies and DFID to support the oversight and direction of the programme. The main purpose of the evaluation activities will be to enrich the global knowledge on the effectiveness of manufacturing Foreign Direct Investment in creating formal employment and boosting productivity; also to assess the performance, delivered results, value for money and serve to share lessons and best practice. The supplier will be responsible for the delivery of monitoring and evaluation activities while retaining independence and impartiality in their approach in a way which maximises confidence in the objectivity of the evaluation.