Call for Tenders

Save the Children (SCI) exists to help children affected by crises, or those who need better healthcare,
education and protection. SCI has a requirement for ongoing supply of specialised nutrition products, which we buy both for our
own programming and on behalf of consortiums. As global procurement of these products as significantly
increased since our previous sourcing exercise, SCI is now reviewing our global sourcing approach and
want to assess supply options for global, regional and local suppliers.

The focus products for this request for information are F75 & F100 Therapeutic Milk, Ready-To-Use-
Therapeutic Food and Ready-To-Use-Supplementary Food, Specialized nutritional Oral Rehydration
Sachets & High-energy biscuits.

Should you require further information or clarification on the RFI requirements, please feel free to contact
 Sophie.CharmanBlower@savethechildren.org

Request for Proposal: Save the Children International (SCI) wishes to engage the services of competent and capable Service Provider/Consultancy Firm to provide these service:

• 5-Day Social Protection Study tour to Brazil for 6 Senior Federal Government Stakeholders, 4 Save the Children & AAH Staff
• 5-Day Social Protection Study tour to Kenya for 6 Senior State Government Stakeholders, 4 save the Children & AAH Staff.

 

RFP Reference: RFP/ABUJA/2017/006 

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potentials. We work together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.6 billion dollars in 2011 to reach more children than ever before, through programs in Health, Nutrition, Education, Protection and Child Rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.

 

Interested bidders should please contact Save the Children to express their interest and request for Complete Tender Documentation containing all details of this Tender Process, from 31^st August, 2017 to 20^th September 2017 at the following address:

Save the Children International, No. 4 Danube Close off Danube Street Maitama FCT, Abuja, Nigeria.

 

Also, it is possible to download the complete documentation concerning this tender at the link:

https://nigeria.savethechildren.net/tenders-bids/rfpabuja2017004

ONLINE/SOFTCOPY SUBMISSION IS NOT ACCEPTED

 

Tenders duly filled must be accompanied by:

• Evidence of Business Registration (Photocopy of CAC Certificate e.t.c as applicable)

• Signed SCI tender response form

• VAT/TAX registration certificate

   

Proposal must be put in wax- sealed envelope, clearly marked by “RFP reference number- RFP/ABUJA/2017/006” “bidders name, address, legal Stamp and submit their technical document in one (1) original and Financial Document in another one (1) original.

For any queries: Nigeria.tender@savethechildren.org or contact the address above to submit your email(s) for the tender/proposal documents to be forwarded for your kind perusal and action.

Closing Date: The last day for the submission of the completed tender documents will be 20^th September, 2017 at 17:00 hours.

 

Save the Children International reserves the right to accept or reject the entire or partial part of this bid

 

Updated REQUEST for PROPOSAL - The Economic Consequences of Hazard Impacts on Education

(REF:PR/ARO/2017/0038) Topic 8

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Our values are accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity. In 2015 we reached 62 million children directly through our programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, and also in times of humanitarian crises. In 2015 our combined revenues were $2.1 billion.

Save the Children International Asia Regional Office is inviting submissions for proposals for conducting the following research:

 

1. 1.    PURPOSE

The purpose of this research is to appraise the short- and long-term, tangible and intangible, direct and indirect economic consequences of intensive and extensive hazards impacts on the education sector, including and especially with reference to reducing educational inequities and disparities. Understanding the value that is exposed to risk will provide valuable information for policy-makers, advocates and donors regarding the need to asses cost benefits of variety of possible measures to reduce this exposure.

 

The project has two elements:

1) To Construct a framework to analyse the economic consequences of hazards on the education sector, and

 

2) To apply that framework to three case studies

 

The framework should include the impact of hazards and associated policy responses on both

• education sector infrastructure (facilities, teaching and learning materials, etc.) as well as

• educational outcomes for students (achievement and attainment).

• The framework should be constructed so that it can be used for cost-effectiveness, cost benefit, and social return on investment analyses in the future.

 

SEE FULL RFP for additional details

 

1. 2.    TITLE

The Economic Consequences of Hazard Impacts on Education: Analytical Framework and Case Studies

 

1. 3.    PROJECT SUMMARY

 

The purpose of this research is to complete a study of the economic consequences of the impacts of intensive and extensive hazards on the education sector. This is to be completed through development and application of a framework to enable the quantification of short- and long-term, tangible and intangible, direct and indirect economic consequences of intensive and extensive hazards impacts on the education sector. Particular reference is to be made to reducing educational inequities and disparities. It is expected to address both the impacts on education sector assets (infrastructure as well as teaching and learning materials), as well as upon individual educational achievement and attainment and longer-term consequences for family socio-economic status.

 

1. 4.    BACKGROUND

 

Education Safe from Disasters

Save the Children has launched an Education Safe from Disasters (ESD) strategy, which is a three-year Asia-Pacific regional strategy, aimed at strengthening Save the Children’s approach to Comprehensive School Safety, which aims to defend two fundamental child rights: the right to safety and survival, and the right to education. Governmental, inter-governmental, civil society, and private sector partners of the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools, and the Global Partnership for Education are all extremely interested to understand both disaster impacts on education, as well as cost-effective interventions to reduce these impacts.

 

The Asia region is the most disaster prone in the world, and children bear the brunt of the impact. Countries in the region experience infrequent high-impact hazards such as, earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes; frequent lower-impact hazards such as cyclones and monsoons; slow-onset hazards such as drought, coastal erosion, and subsidence; and a range of social hazards including hazardous materials releases and conflict.

 

SEE FULL RFP FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS

 

2. RATIONALE

 

This study aims to complement other recent studies on the barriers to achieving children’s right to a free basic quality education, and to identify significant sources of inequities in educational participation, as the result of hazards, disasters, and climate-change impacts.

 

The study will generate the foundational evidence on economic consequences of disaster impacts on the education sector in order to recommend and point the way forward to both risk reduction investment options, as well as to long-term data collection, and future research. An understanding of the financial and economic consequences of a variety of hazard impacts on the education sector is needed to support recommendations for policy implementation, as well as to propose a way forward for ongoing research and analysis in this field

 

The case studies will begin to document and provide constructive examples for many hazard prone countries in their efforts to understand the impacts of hazards on education, and to address educational inequities with thoughtful, evidence-based planning and decision-making. The results are expected to guide education sector partners, development partners, donors, and other stakeholders in reducing hazard and disaster impacts on the education sector.

 

 

3. AIM, OBJECTIVES & RESEARCH QUESTIONS

This section can be revised with selected researcher(s), and upon consultation with key stakeholders, especially with education authority partners, and country office TA.

 

Aim:

To understand the economic consequences of hazards impacts on both educational outcomes for children, and on education sector investments from a theoretical perspective as well as from case study examples.

 

Objectives:

• To understand the differential and longitudinal economic consequences of hazards impacts on children’s education outcomes (including larger intensive disaster impacts and extensive and recurrent impacts of hazards);

• To understand the economic impacts of hazards on education sector investments;

• To utilize quantitative data for analysis of economic consequences of hazard impacts in three case studies.

 

Proposed Research Questions:

Researchers are invited to formulate the proposed research questions in their proposal and in their inception report.

 

7. SCOPE of WORK and DELIVERABLES

• Inception Report  
• Research-into-Practice Brief    
• Final Report
• PowerPoint presentation of findings for general practitioner and stakeholder workshop
• Full data set (where applicable)

      

SEE FULL RFP for ADDITIONAL DETAILS

 

8. QUALIFICATIONS

 

Applicants may be an individual or a team.

 

Applicants should demonstrate that the team has:

   • A qualified economist

• Subject-matter expertise in education sector research

• Subject-matter expertise in disaster impacts research

• Subject-matter expertise in educational inequities research

 

• Strong research design and quantitative data analysis skills

• Excellent writing, conceptual and analytic skills, including being able to write for practitioners and policy-makers

• Proven track record in designing and implementing social science research

• Commitment to research dissemination and interest in implementation science highly desirable

• Appropriate cultural and language skills to carry out research in this particular context

 

In accordance with Save the Children's child safeguarding policies, all team members selected will be requested to sign SC's Child Safeguarding Policies.

 

 

9.  RESPONSIBILITIES

The Save the Children and DepEd Research Project Support Team will guide and review the research methodology and outputs:

SEE FULL RFP for ADDITIONAL DETAILS

 

10.APPLICATIONS

 

Application should include:

• Cover letter stating interest and qualifications

• CV(s) and/or introduction of Institute, company and primary investigators (please ensure to include contact information including phone number and email address)

• Links to 1 or 2 sample research work products

• Full proposal based on the above description of this research

 

Full Proposal should include:

1. Brief review of relevant literature (This is not meant to be extensive or definitive. However, it should indicate awareness of significant contributions in the field from both relevant scientific and academic texts as well as grey literature. It should indicate careful consideration of critical inquiry into carefully selected issues, clarify the 'gap' that the research should focus on, and create a space for the theoretical orientation and guiding model for the research. It can also indicate further areas of review that will be included in the course of the project).

2.  Discussion of objectives and research questions

3. Research design insights (Include and justify proposed methods to ensure rigorous, generalizable results. Describe wherever possible: rationale, sampling approach, data collection process, assumptions, limitations, analysis, and models. Where applicable, include procedures to ensure ethical research practice, such as gaining Informed Consent, and protecting participant confidentiality, and protecting children. Where applicable indicate to which organization ethical review will be submitted.

3. Research Team Roles and CVs  

4. Budget

 

Review, Interviews, Notification:

If you are interested in this tender, please follow the below link to our Save the Children website to review the full request of proposal documents, how the express of interest needs to be received and whom to contact for any further information requirement. https://www.savethechildren.net/tenders

 

Application deadline to return your application submission must be received at the email address below not later than October 22 2017 ("the Closing Date"). Failure to meet the Closing Date may result in the tender being void. Returned proposals must remain open for consideration for a period of not less than 60 days from the Closing Date. Save the Children is under no obligation to award the contract or to award it to the lowest bidder. [esdresearch@savethechildren.org]

 

11. TIMELINES & MILESTONES

 

Research Duration: November 1st 2017 – February 1^st 2018 (end date may be subject to change based on submitted proposals)

 

SEE FULL RFP for ADDITIONAL DETAILS

 

12. BUDGET

Budget range:  Max EUR 45,000

 

• Payment will be made in 2 tranches: 40% upon receipt of approved inception report and 60% upon receipt of approved final deliverables.

• The researcher/research team is responsible for all travel, telecommunications and other costs as may be required.

• Research proposal should include all anticipated costs.

 

13. OVERSIGHT & ACCOUNTABILITY

Contractor will report to the Research and Learning Program Manager, and will be guided by a Research Project Guidance Team, represented by an assigned Save the Children TA Lead, as well as an independent Academic Research Advisor (assigned by Save the Children). The team will function as resource persons, to support the primary researcher (and team, where applicable), to produce quality outputs and guide effective research dissemination and next steps in implementation.

 

SEE FULL RFP for ADDITIONAL DETAILS

 

14. PUBLICATION & DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS:

This research is a 'work for hire', and as such, Save the Children reserves the right to retain the data collected and to publish research report. Primary Investigator and Research Project Team are encouraged to consider submission of appropriate publications to both peer-reviewed journals, and relevant and national regional publications. Any such submission requires prior approval from Save the Children.

 

REFERENCES / SOURCES

SEE FULL RFP for ADDITIONAL DETAILS

 

ANNEX to Request for Proposal – Notes from recent GPE Reports: 

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