Invitation for Competitive Tender
Livelihoods Recovery and Resilience
Program Baseline Survey
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is a nonprofit international relief and development organization serving more than 80 million people in over 100 countries in five continents.
CRS and its partners were awarded a three year Livelihoods Recovery and Resilience Program (LRRP) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) OFDA, FFP and South Soudan mission offices.
The LRRP specifically targets
conflict-affected and vulnerable, rural communities and the IDPs in Bor and Duk
counties in Jonglei State, Pibor county in Boma State and Awerial County in
Eastern Lakes States.
CRS intends to engage the services of
a consulting firm to conduct a population level baseline survey.
The overall purpose of the baseline
survey is two-fold;
i) to collect baseline data for
quantitative impact and outcome level program indicators to serve as a point of
comparison of the final evaluation results, and
ii) inform program targeting and,
where possible, program design and has the following specific objectives:
To,
a) Determine the baseline values for all household level impact and outcome level performance indicators in the targeted program locations; and
b) Establish annual and life of program targets for the household level impact and outcome level performance indicators in the targeted program locations as applicable;
c) Provide baseline benchmarks to determine the level of change in household level impact and outcome performance indictors at the final evaluation survey
Consultant Firm Qualifications
- Must be a team of professionals with strong
and proven quantitative data collection and analytical, with one
individual clearly identified as the team leader
- The team leader and any key consultants must
be holders of at least a Master’s degree qualification in agriculture,
food security studies, social sciences, development studies or statistics,
with no less than 5 years of proven experience of research in food
security, market systems and or health, including WASH.
- Must have demonstrated experience in
coordinating data collection in large scale household level quantitative
surveys.
- Experience in conducting research in South
Sudan or for USAID FFP/FtF and or OFDA programs is highly desirable
- Must have good team leadership, time and
resource management skills under a complex operating environment.
- Good command of English language and excellent
quantitative data analysis and report writing skills
The detailed scope of work can be
obtained upon request from SouthsudanPRs@crs.org.
Complete bid to offer the consulting
service entitled “LRRP Baseline Survey Consultancy” must be returned to the
same email not later than 1200 hours, 12 March 2016 and must contain the
following;
i. A technical proposal to
demonstrate the team’s ability to carry out this assignment, with a detailed
implementation plan with dates
ii. A financial proposal in MS Excel
which describes the budget that you require to complete the assignment on time
with specified quality
iii. Copies of at least one and not
more than two research assignments conducted by the team or its key members
within the last three years
CRS is not obliged to accept the lowest bid, or any bid and reserves the right
to cancel all or part of this bid without any notification, or to reject any
offer and bid that does not meet the minimum criteria as stipulated in the
tender document.
