RFI-SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE MEL SVCS.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

Subject: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Support (MEL Support) Activity RFI Number: RFI-620-20-MEL01 Date Issued: April 30, 2020 Response Due Date/Time: May 18, 2020 at 15:00 P.M. Nigeria Time

Dear Industry:

This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information (RFI) Notice “ONLY”. This Notice is issued by the U.S.

Agency for International Development (USAID)/Nigeria as part of the Mission’s market research effort to determine interest, capability and availability of qualified U.S. Small Businesses of providing MEL Support Services. This Sources Sought/RFI Notice is issued for information and planning purposes only. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and in no way does not constitute a commitment by the USAID/Nigeria nor commits USAID to issue an RFP or to make an award. Therefore, responses to this Sources Sought/RFI are not proposals on which the USAID/Nigeria can issue any award.

All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary, and USAID/Nigeria will not pay for requested information nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the USAID/Nigeria. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this Notice.

All information received in response to this Notice marked "Proprietary" will be protected and handled accordingly. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. Responses to the Sources Sought/RFI Notice will not be returned.

Interested U.S. small businesses is requested to provide information that demonstrate the experience and ability to perform the type of work described in the attachment to this notice. The capability statement must include relevant examples within and outside of governmental awards under which the firm has performed if applicable.

Responses to this RFI must be submitted by email only to abujasolicitations@usaid.gov with a copy to chodge-snead@usaid.gov and mabdullahi@usaid.gov no later than the date and time shown above. Please include RFI #RFI-620-20-MEL01 in the subject line. Responders will not receive individualized feedback.

All inquiries concerning this RFI must be directed only to the email addresses identified above. Hard copy submissions will not be accepted nor will phone inquiries be entertained. This Notice can be viewed and downloaded from the internet at beta.sam.gov.

We look forward to receiving your comments.

Sincerely, Cheryl Hodge-Snead, Contracting Officer mailto:abujasolicitations@usaid.gov mailto:chodge-snead@usaid.gov

ATTACHMENT

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

MEL SUPPORT ACTIVITY

Background.

USAID/Nigeria works across several teams to address the country’s development challenges and support Nigeria on its journey to self-reliance. Presently, the technical teams are (1) Economic

Growth and Environment, (2) Education, (3) HIV and Tuberculosis, (4) Health, Population, and

Nutrition, and (5) Peace and Democratic Governance. In addition, USAID addresses humanitarian crises in Nigeria through the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, and some of the immediate impact of conflicts created by Islamic State of West Africa and Boko Haram through USAID’s

Office of Transition Initiatives.

USAID/Nigeria’s current Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) goal is “Reduced extreme poverty in a more stable, democratic Nigeria.” The Mission is working to achieve this goal through a set of three broad Development Objectives (DOs):

DO 1: Broadened and inclusive growth, DO 2: A healthier, more educated population in targeted states, and

DO 3: Strengthened good governance.

The strategy is currently undergoing redesign and the Mission anticipates having the new strategy in place not later than the Fall of 2020. Many of the activities under the current strategy are expected to continue under the revised strategy, and the period of performance of the proposed

MEL Support activity will roughly align with the new CDCS, 2020-2025. USAID/Nigeria seeks highly experienced and capable firms that can work closely with the Mission and its partners to track and demonstrate performance, enhance Mission MEL capabilities, and support the learning agenda.

Program Objectives.

The objectives of the proposed MEL Support activity are to assist the Mission with strategy-, project-, and activity-level performance monitoring, evaluation, and learning including independent field-based monitoring, data quality assessments, data gathering and verification, impact and performance evaluations, assessments, collection of select country context indicators, organizational learning, and improving knowledge management. In addition, the activity will support short term technical assistance for USAID programmatic objectives where short-term technical assistance (STTA) staff for learning are embedded in the Mission or in Nigerian government systems that need the support.

This activity is expected to help support Nigeria on its Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR), helping to build a highly qualified domestic cadre of MEL Specialists, including USAID staff, its own staff and partners, staff of other USAID implementing partners, contractors, government counterparts, and others.

Description of Services

The intent of MEL Support services is to support the Mission and its partners with services including (but not limited) to those listed below. Experience, capacity and capability in this regard are critical.

● Monitoring: Ability to conduct routine monitoring of USAID funded interventions in the field across Nigeria, including third party monitoring in non-permissive environment

● Data Quality Assessment: Ability to conduct data quality assessment/audit in accordance with USAID’s Automated Directives System (ADS) across Nigeria the for all technical areas covered by the Mission.

● Project and Activity MEL plan and PMP assistance: Ability to support the development of robust performance management plans for the Mission and across the different projects and activities.

● Assessments and Evaluations: Ability to conduct quality evaluations in Nigeria and across the technical areas covered by the Mission

● Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Building: Ability to provide sound Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning capacity of the Mission and its partners.

● Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) events: Ability to support the Mission's learning agenda, including facilitation, procuring event space, and logistics support.

● Knowledge Management: Ability to manage and update the Mission's knowledge and performance management systems.

● Short term technical assistance to select Nigerian Government Agencies, the USAID

Mission, and/or local MEL firms.

Anticipated Place and Period of Performance.

Coverage of the proposed MEL Support activity is throughout Nigeria, and the anticipated period of performance is five (5) years.

Submission Instructions.

Responses must be in a font size of 12 and must not exceed five pages, including the past performance table, please number each page consecutively. Any organization responding to this

Sources Sought Notice must ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform this work.

Written capability statements to this Sources Sought Notice must be addressed electronically to abujasolicitations@usaid.gov with the subject title “Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Support

(MEL Support) Activity Procurement RFI” with the source sought number clearly marked, no later than the date/time stated above. You will receive an electronic confirmation acknowledging receipt of your response.

Capability Statement Requirements.

Interested firms must demonstrate the experience and ability to perform the kind of work described in this notice. Firms must supply capability statements which provide relevant examples of both governmental and non-governmental awards under which they have performed similar work. The items below must be included in the response:

● Two-page statement describing the firm's capability to execute the tasks outlined under the desired services section of this notice. The respondent is encouraged to also describe supplementary services that the company can provide.

● Two-page statement describing the firm’s experience in relation to the services being sought (including the less than half paged table summary of previous experience).

mailto:abujasolicitations@usaid.gov