SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE Country Côte d’Ivoire City Locality Abidjan Project Name SKILLS Procurement Title Recruitment of a Firm for the Collection of reference data for independent evaluation of Secondary Education activity: Quantitative data Procurement ref. : MCA-CI/CONSULT/QCBS/372 Type of Procurement Consultant services (Firms) Buyer Millennium Challenge Account-Côte d’Ivoire Publication Date : April 18th, 2024 Notice Deadline May 16th, 2024 – 3.00 pm UTC 1. The United States of America, acting through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (“MCC”) and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire (the “Government” or “GoCI”) have entered into a Millennium Challenge Compact (the “Compact”) for Millennium Challenge Account assistance to help facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth in Côte d`Ivoire in the amount of approximately US$ 536.7 million (“MCC Funding”). The Government, acting through MCA-Côte d’Ivoire (the “MCA Entity” or “Buyer”), intends to apply a portion of the MCC Funding to eligible payments under a contract for which this Request for Offers (“RFO”) is issued. Any payments made by the MCA Entity under the proposed contract will be subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of the Compact and related documents, including restrictions on the use and distribution of MCC Funding. The Compact and its related documents can be found on the MCC website (www.mcc.gov) and on the MCA-Côte d’Ivoire website (http://www.mcacotedivoire.ci). 2. MCA-Côte d’Ivoire now invites offers from legally constituted Offerors to provide the services referenced above (“Offers”). More details on these services are provided in the Terms of Reference. 3. This RFO is open to all eligible entities (“Offerors”) who wish to respond. Subject to restrictions noted in the RFO, offerors may associate with other offerors to enhance their capacity to successfully carry out the assignment. 4. A contract will be awarded by MCA-Côte d’Ivoire for a base period starting from the contract’s signature till the end of Year 2024 and an optional period 1 starting from January thru July 2025. The optional periods 2, 3, 4 and 5 for data collection will be separately implemented as required, by the firm MATHEMATICA, an independent evaluator selected by MCC that will be finance in the framework of a contract distinct from that of MCA-Cote d'Ivoire. 5. An Offeror will be selected under the Quality Cost Based Selection “QCBS”. The evaluation procedure described in this RFO is in accordance with the “Accountable Entity Procurement Policy and Guidelines” which are provided on the MCC website (www.mcc.gov/ppg). The selection process, as described, includes a review and verification of qualifications and past performance, including reference checks, prior to the contract award. 6. A Pre-Proposal conference will be held on April 29th, 2024, at 3.00 pm Abidjan time. The Conference will be held via the platform Microsoft Teams. The access link will be provided to the Offerors registered with the Procurement Agent. 7. The complete RFO can be downloaded through the following link https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3zrl8xbrbgnqywmhz0vi8/APjhI6uk8xe7yQEixKVrQHs?rlkey=959y87endkdv9kqhsfgp9a3se&dl=0 Offerors interested in submitting an Offer, should submit a completed registration form via the link https://forms.office.com/r/yuJFkGgfk2. This will ensure that the Consultants receive updates, clarifications and/or addendums regarding this RFO. 8. Offers must be submitted in the manner specified in the RFO, no later than May 16th, 2024, at 3.00 pm Abidjan – Côte d’Ivoire Time. Late Offers will be rejected. Offerors may request clarifications by e-mail no later than May 2nd, 2024, so that responses be provided to all of them no later than 7 days before the submission deadline. Requests for clarification will be received at
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