PSI is a non-profit organization working to improve the health of poor and vulnerable people in developing countries. PSI has an annual budget of $500+ million, offices in 60+ countries, and 8,000+ employees. Country offices are supported by 200+ staff providing services in programmatic and administrative areas. Collectively this group is referred to as “Global Services”, though most staff are based in Washington, D.C. Global Services is divided into four “cones” which encompass over 20 departments. For further information on PSI’s size, scope, structure, and strategy refer to www.psi.org.
This Part I, Bidding Instructions and Procedures, will not form part of any resulting award or contract. It is intended solely for the information of prospective Bidders.
Bidders are under no obligation to prepare or submit bids in response to this RFP, and do so solely at their own risk and expense. PSI does not undertake to reimburse any costs incurred therefore.
Bidders are solely responsible for the careful examination of all of the terms and conditions of this RFP and to comply fully therewith. Failure to do so will be at the Bidder’s risk and expense.
All documents submitted in response to this RFP, as well as all correspondence in connection with the RFP, shall be in the English language.
Inquiries concerning this RFP must be submitted in writing, to be received by the date shown on the Cover Page. Such inquiries shall be sent by email, directed to.
Attention: Nelson Huo
Email: nhuo@psi.org.mz
PSI is under no obligation to consider or respond to questions that are not received by that date.
Bidders should submit their responses to this RFP to include:
Your proposal should provide basic information about you and your relevant service offerings. It should have a section addressing eachof the following areas:
Bidders pricing should include the hourly/daily rate proposed, and the number of hours/days needed per month to achieve the deliverables in Part 2.
As part of the RFP process, PSI may be providing confidential information to bidders. Consequently, bidders must complete the attached Confidential/Non-disclosure Agreement (Part 4) to participate in this process. Signed Confidential/Non-Disclosure Agreements must be submitted with the proposal.
All proposals must be in writing, in the English language, and manually signed and dated by an authorized employee of the Bidder. They may be emailed as shown on the RFQ cover page.
Proposals may not be altered, corrected or withdrawn after the Date of Receipt, except that PSI, at its sole discretion, may permit correction of arithmetic errors, transposition errors, or other clerical or minor mistakes, in cases in which PSI deems that both the mistake and the intended proposal can be established conclusively on the face of the proposal. Other than the mistakes listed in the previous sentence, no mistakes alleged by a Bidder after the Date of Receipt will be permitted to be corrected.
Proposals must be valid for at least ninety (90) days from the Date of Receipt.
In evaluating the proposals, PSI will seek the best value for money rather than the lowest priced proposal. PSI will use a two-stage selection procedure:
Only consultants who score at least 55 points on the technical evaluation, will proceed for Cost Proposal evaluation.
Specifically, the selection committee will evaluate each proposal upon the following criteria:
If at any time prior to award PSI deems there to be a need for a significant modification to the terms and conditions of this RFP, PSI will issue such a modification as a written RFP amendment to all competing bidders. No oral statement of any person shall in any manner be deemed to modify or otherwise affect any RFP term or condition, and no bidder shall rely on any such statement. Such amendments are the exclusive method for this purpose.
PSI is not bound to accept the lowest or any proposal and reserves the right to accept any proposal in whole or in part and to reject any or all proposals.
PSI shall not be legally bound by any award notice issued for this RFP until a contract is duly signed and executed with the winning Bidder.
Any resulting contract will be subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Consulting Services Agreement at Part 3 to this RFP.
The Evidence Technical and System Advisor’s role is to provide technical support and strengthen the PSI/Mozambique Evidence Team in order to ensure PSI Mozambique achieves its strategies and goals including providing support on collaboration across the evidence function from global, regional to national level.
The Evidence Technical and System Advisor will be responsible on assessing systems and activities presented below and ensure that are widely implemented and are contributing to increase data use, data quality and evidence-based-decision making. Conduct a systematic review of similar system used by other organizations.
The Evidence Technical and System Advisor is expected to fulfil the following duties:
Aside from these skills, the Evidence and System Technical Advisor should possess the traditional project management skills, and show experience working in M&E and Research.
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