Published date: 2 July 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 2 August 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Research services - 73110000

  • Services specific to international organisations and bodies - 98910000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

MT212469

Published date

2 July 2018

Closing date

2 August 2018

Contract start date

1 October 2018

Contract end date

1 July 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY
VSO is a global voluntary organisation whose mission has been to bring people together to fight poverty through the lasting power of volunteering.
Voluntary Service Overseas is looking to identify an organisation or evaluation team to undertake an independent mid-term and final evaluation of the volunteering for development (VfD) grant, implemented between 2017 and 2020. We are seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced / qualified organisations.
The evaluation will serve a number of overall purposes. These are to:
- Generate evidence and learnings for VSO to understand, review and adapt its delivery of the VfD grant to better support poor and marginalised people
- Provide accountability to DfID on its investment in VSO's VfD work in accordance with the grant agreement
- Contribute to the wider volunteering for development sector's knowledge and best practices on the relational approach to development to improve standards and quality of programme delivery
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in conducting and managing multi-country evaluations in the international development field
- Demonstrated experience in conducting mid-term and final evaluations as supported by examples of past work and references
- Team Leader should have a minimum of a Master's degree (ideally a PhD) in social science or other relevant expertise and minimum twelve years' experience in undertaking international and cross-cultural evaluation
- Evaluation team members should have a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in social science or related expertise and minimum seven years' experience in undertaking international evaluations
Expressions of interest: all expressions of interest must be received by VSO by 2 August 2018 and must be submitted electronically (emailed) to the following email address: rebecca.pursellgotz@vsoint.org. The EOI must include a contact name, company name, company address, phone number and email address.
Tender documents: tender documents will be sent to those who expressed an interest shortly after the close of the EOI period.
Anticipated contract start date: 1 October 2018
VSO reserves the right not to award a contract.
www.vsoint.org

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About the buyer

Contact name

Rebecca Pursell-Gotz

Address

100 London Road
Kingston upon Thames
KT2 6QJ
England

Telephone

+44 2087807500

Email

rebecca.pursellgotz@vsoint.org

Website

www.vsointernational.org