UNICEF has now issued a: Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of Third-Party programme monitoring services on Long Term Arrangement (LTA) Basis FURTHER BRIEF BACKGROUND Purpose: Conduct programme monitoring, including supply end user monitoring, to assess the implementation status of programmes supported by UNICEF Location: National, Provincial & district level Duration: 3 years (Each specific assignment to be calculated based on approved fixed fee rate) OBJECTIVES / TARGET The overall objective of third-party assurance activities is to monitor and/or verify that UNICEF-supported activities are being implemented, with quality and integrity, by NGO and/or government partners; and contributing to improved wellbeing of children and women The overall objective of this contract is to ensure that UNICEF has adequate, quality and timely information on the reach and effect of availed resources. Specific Objectives will include; a) End User/Supply Monitoring - Assess the functionality and use of supplies at facility and/or community levels, adequacy and relevance of the supplies, - Assess the quality and appropriateness/suitability of the supplies. - Assess the allocation, storage, maintenance of equipment and distribution of supplies to the right target group - Assess durability of the supplied commodities - Access the existing system (recording keeping, information flow) and any challenges that need to be addressed b) Programme Monitoring/visits - Verification and Validation of the implementation of the activities versus planned and demonstrate the efficiency of the implementation modalities for both developmental and humanitarian interventions. - Documentation of short-term results achieved focusing on the following monitoring domains: a) access to services b) utilization of the services, c) quality of the services d) data management and reporting and e) enabling environment which will include: Societal norms, policy framework, institutional management/coordination. - Identify bottlenecks and recommend solutions and trigger solutions and corrective actions. IMPORTANT NOTE This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender. Dear Madam/Sir Thank you for your interest in this tendering process and for all the enquiries you have raised. You will find in the attached file a list of questions received by the set due date, together with UNICEF responses. Thank you and best regards, The Procurement Team