Evaluation Services
Added: Nov 10, 2008 3:57 pm
The purpose of the solicitation is to provide U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with technical and advisory services. The contractor shall provide services to enable the USAIDs Office of Management Policy, Budget and Performance (MPBP), other central program and policy offices, and concerned units of the State Department (including the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance, the Office of the Global AIDs Coordinator, and the Bureau for Resource Management) to implement studies, including strategic analysis, evaluation case studies, meta-evaluations, and other evaluative studies that have been identified as part of the Agencys Agenda of Central Evaluation Studies. The contractor shall provide evaluation training; technical assistance on evaluation methods, both quantitative (survey research and statistical analysis) and qualitative (including mixed methods); preparation of guidance, handbooks, newsletters, and other tools for evaluation practitioners; planning for (including logistics), designing and implementing studies and evaluations; assistance on evaluation utilization and dissemination, assistance on joint evaluations with other international donors, and assistance in selecting and reviewing performance indicators.
The contractor shall provide USAID field missions and USAID Washington Bureaus with access to high quality evaluation expertise and technical assistance. Those services shall be used by the Agency to undertake evaluations at the level of particular activities and interventions, of broader program and strategic objectives, and/or at the country level, as well as for cross-sector, multi-country evaluations, mid-term, final, or impact evaluations and other related results-oriented program planning. Technical assistance shall include expertise in these development fields: economic growth, agriculture and trade; environment; education and training; global health; democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance; and cross-cutting programs (conflict management, private and voluntary cooperation, transition initiatives, urban programs, water, women in development) and evaluation methodology, design and training.
Please e-mail your interest in this presolicitation notice by Nov 17th to Ray Carmichael, e-mail address rcarmichael@usaid.gov.
M-OAA-GRO-ALPS-08-1023 US Agency for International Development Washington Office
11/10/08, 3:57 PM