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International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) 
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Last Date: October 14, 2010
Email: djayasuriya@ifc.org (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)
Subject: Baseline Household Survey, Vava’u, Tonga
Request for Expressions of Interest
IFC-Private Enterprise Partnership for the Pacific (PEP Pacific) intends to finance the following assignment:
Summary Description of the Scope of Work
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank group, has launched a new microfinance initiative for the Pacific in partnership with AusAID. The 12.3 million dollar project will provide funding to microfinance organisations in Papua New Guinea, the Pacific and Timor-Leste.
One organization IFC is supporting is planning to expand operations to the island of Vava’u, Tonga. Vava’u can be reached via a one hour flight from the main Island of Tongatapu. According to the latest Tonga census in 2006, the main island of Vava’u, Neiafu, has 2885 households, 38 villages and a population of 15,505. Villages are accessible by land vehicle and are located within 20 minutes of each other at most.
As part of the microfinance initiative, IFC is committed to undertaking regular monitoring of all programs and ‘in-depth’ evaluations of selected programs. For the purposes of this assignment, IFC is procuring a firm to address the objective of: undertaking a baseline survey of 2685 households in Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga. Only one female between the ages of 18-65 is required to be interviewed in each of these households.
Indicative Timeline
ACTIVITIES/ TIMELINE
RFP Issued: October 18, 2010
Proposals Submission Deadline:October 26, 2010
Review Team Selected and Contract Awarded: November 5, 2010
Survey Questionnaire Finalised (English version provided by IFC). Survey Firm will translate: November 26, 2010
Pilot Survey: Early December 2010
Main Survey: January-February, 2011
Main Survey Results: February 2011
PEP Pacific now invites eligible Consutlant Firms to indicate their interest in providing their services by submitting a response to this Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI). Please note that Consulting Firms may associate with other interested firms or individuals to enhance their qualifications. Firms that have been determined to be qualified through the evaluated results of this first stage may be invited to submit proposals for the Request for Proposals (RFP) that will be issued at a later date.
Interested consultants must provide the following information that will indicate that they are qualified to perform the services:
• Provide information on your expertise and experience with any prior similar assignments; experience in similar conditions; availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.
• Demonstrate a capability to meet the World Bank Group’s Vendor Eligibility Criteria as found on www.worldbank.org/corporateprocurement .
• Please note that Marketing Brochures should only be provided as attachments and will not be considered as a substitute for written responses. Elaborate artwork is not required or encouraged.
Responses must be delivered to the below mentioned personnel by e-mail no later than 5pm Sydney Time, 14 October 2010 and shall not exceed ten (10) pages. If the submitted response exceeds ten (10) pages, IFC reserves the right to read only the first ten(10).
By responding to this REOI, you are confirming compliance with the World Bank Group Procurement Policy.
The responses will be reviewed and those consultants deemed best qualified in IFC’s judgment will be short-listed according to the following criteria:
The following qualifications are desirable
• The firm has previously undertaken large-scale surveys for multi-national firms, NGOs, bi-lateral agencies or multi-lateral agencies in Tonga.
The following qualifications are mandatory:
• The firm has previously undertaken large-scale surveys for multi-national firms, NGOs, bi-lateral agencies or multi-lateral agencies in the Pacific Island Countries.
• The firm has previously translated surveys from English into a Pacific Island country language.
IFC reserves the right to limit the number of qualified firms shortlisted for efficiency. IFC reserves the right to verify any information provided, or to request additional information after REOI packages are received. IFC reserves the right to proceed, or to not proceed, with issuing an RFP. IFC reserves the right to modify the scope of work for the RFP as necessary to meet Project requirements.
All data and information received from IFC for the purpose of this assignment are to be treated confidentially and are only to be used in connection with the execution of these Terms of Reference. The contents of written materials obtained and used in this assignment may not be disclosed to any third parties without the expressed advance written notice of IFC.
All correspondence related to this REOI should be addressed in writing only by sending an e-mail to Dinuk Jayasuriya at djayasuriya@ifc.org. IFC is not responsible for any verbal explanation or interpretation of these documents.
Sincerely,
Dinuk Jayasuriya
M&E Specailist
IFC PEP-Pacific
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