Request for Proposal (RFP) – Services
Issuance Date: July 18, 2024
Description: Seeking data collection firm to support key informant interviews and focus group discussions in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
Deadline for Questions: July 23, 2024 (12pm EDT)
Deadline for Proposals: July 31, 2024 (12pm EDT)
Type of Award (Anticipated): Firm Fixed Price Subcontract
Duration of Award (Anticipated): Estimated August 15, 2024, to July 1, 2025
Point of Contact: [email protected]
A. Introduction
1. Integrity’s Profile
Integrity Global Inc. (Integrity) is an ethical consultancy and service provider working in challenging and complex environments around the globe. Headquartered in London and Washington DC, Integrity also has offices in Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Pakistan, and South Sudan. Our multi-national team of over 60 deliver multi-year projects, programs, and consulting assignments to a wide range of government clients, international organizations, foundations, and private sector clients.
2. Project Description
Integrity leads the Peacebuilding, Evaluation, Analysis, Research, and Learning (PEARL) Activity for the USAID Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization’s Center for Conflict and Violence Prevention (CPS/CVP). PEARL is a global buy-in mechanism that offers violence and conflict analysis, peacebuilding evaluation, and knowledge management services to USAID Missions and Operating Units.
Through PEARL, Integrity will evaluate efforts to achieve U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability (SPCPS) policy goals in the Global Fragility Act (GFA) priority countries (Haiti, Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea) and region (Coastal West Africa: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo). The global-level evaluation will help distil lessons learned in prevention, stabilization, partnership, and management for U.S. Government interventions in fragile contexts. As part of the U.S. SPCPS evaluation portfolio, Integrity is conducting a series of case study evaluations to identify contributions toward the SPCPS objectives defined for each priority country and region.
In Mozambique, Integrity is conducting an external mid-term performance evaluation of the Preventing Violent Extremism and Building Social Cohesion in the Northern Region of Mozambique Activity implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The Activity aims to reduce vulnerability of un- or under-employed people potentially at risk of radicalization and recruitment by violent extremism groups.
Solicitation Summary
Purpose
Integrity intends to engage the services of a data collection firm to organize technical staff who will conduct key informant interviews and focus group discussions, participate in synthesis and recommendations workshops and support the development of actionable recommendations. The detailed scope of work, please request the full RFP from [email protected].
Objectives:
To provide the remaining evaluation team members other than the Integrity hired Team Leader to collect data, provide data analysis and develop actionable recommendations for inclusion in a final report to USAID, Integrity seeks the service of a data collection firm to provide the below 5 technical staff:
- Senior Evaluation and Conflict Specialist
- Mid-Level Evaluation Specialist
- Researcher
- Researcher
- Logistician
See terms of reference for each position in the RFP. All work performed by these assessment team members will be under the instruction and supervision of the Integrity hired Team Leader and the Integrity Program Management Unit (PMU). Please note that, in addition to the five technical positions stated above, offerors should include in their proposals all costs for all administrative support staff required to successfully administer this activity.
Expected Activities:
Phase 1: August – December 2024 (Integrity Team Leader and Data Collection Firm’s Senior Evaluation and Conflict Specialist)
- Desk review of activity documents and monitoring data
- Review of relevant secondary datasets i.e. SPCPS baseline data, beneficiary surveys from IOM midline evaluation, Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), Afrobarometer
- Virtual key informant interviews (KIIs)
Phase 2: January – July 2025 (Whole evaluation team)
- In-person fieldwork in Maputo and northern Mozambique, prioritizing Cabo Delgado (sampling a total of 4 districts and 8 communities).KIIs with IOM staff, local government officials, community leaders, CSOs, and sub-grantees working in the target provinces.
- Fieldwork is anticipated to include FGDs with beneficiaries about their experiences with the IOM Activity and perceptions about its contributions to outcomes for households and communities.
- Considering conducting remote mini-surveys with target groups such as women, youth, and IDPs to compare livelihoods programming outcomes for each of the Activity beneficiary groups.
The expected period of performance will be August 2024 through July 2025 with a Phase I desk review taking place from August to December 2024 and a Phase II of Primary Data Collection taking place from January to July 2025. This timeline will require rapid mobilization by the data collection firm to organize staff and submit assessment team profiles for review and approval by the Secretary of State in Cabo Delgado as part of the preparation for data collection which can take up to six months for approval. However, for Phase I of the evaluation the only team member hired through the data collection firm who will need to be actively involved will be the Senior Evaluation and Conflict Specialist. The remaining team members will need to be identified and committed at the same time to submit their names for approval, but they will not commence work until Phase II. The data collection is expected to take place February – March in Cabo Delgado, with training and piloting conducted in the weeks prior and the report submission is expected in July.
For all data collection activities we anticipate needing to have detailed notes drafted by the technical staff that are translated into English.
How to apply
To receive the full RFP package which includes a more detailed timeline and scopes of work for each position, please send a request to [email protected].