Consulting Services - Digital, data and innovation assessments

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

MCC requires a contractor to provide strategic assessments of the data, digital and innovation ecosystem in partner countries.  Through these assessments, MCC seeks to understand the baseline strengths and weaknesses of the current processes, policies and practices impacting data supply and demand – as well as strategic investments that can be integrated into program activities to improve the availability, timeliness, accessibility, interoperability, and quality of the data that will be important digitalization and to reaching development outcomes.  MCC requires both the facts of the situation as well as expert recommendations on strategies and approaches to improve data availability and quality, data use capacity, data literacy, and readiness to use data to support evidence-based decision making, and to contribute to fulfillment of the objectives of planned MCC programs.

MCC is therefore seeking quotes from U.S., international, African regional, and / or country-based organizations to design and implement, in direct collaboration with MCC, assessments of digital, data and technology innovation ecosystems, broadly but with depth in specified sectors.  The requirement will also include technical assistance to refine its due diligence tools and processes the design of digital investments integrated and/or alongside its compact and threshold programs.