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RFPPre-bid meeting baseline survey 25 august
Annex III - Proposal Submission
Annex IV - Price Schedule
Guidelines for preparing CV
ADDENDUM 1
RFP for providing Technical Assistance in the design and implementation of Base Line Survey (BLS) 2011 for Programme 135-II
Procurement Process
RFP - Request for proposal
Office
UNDP Viet Nam
Deadline
14-Sep-11
Published on
24-Aug-11
Reference Number
7506
Pre-bid meeting baseline survey 25 august
Annex III - Proposal Submission
Annex IV - Price Schedule
Guidelines for preparing CV
ADDENDUM 1
Overview
The UNDP Viet Nam seeks one organization to provide technical assistance in the design and implementation of Base Line Survey (BLS) 2011 for Programme 135-II (Vietnamese Government’s programme on poverty reduction and socio-economic development).
Programme 135 (P135) is a key Government of Viet Nam poverty reduction and socio-economic development programme focused upon the poorest, most remote ethnic minority and mountainous communes throughout Viet Nam. The Programme is managed by the State Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) and has recently completed a second phase cycle, from 2006-2010. A third phase of the Programme is currently under negotiation and will run for another four years, from 2012-2015.
In 2007 the General Statistics Office of Viet Nam, on behalf of CEMA and with technical assistance and funding from the UNDP VIE/02/001 Project, completed a baseline survey for P135-II. The survey sampled 6,000 households in 400 communes overall, of which 4,000 households were a treatment group randomly selected from P135-II communes and 2,000 households a control group drawn from P135 Phase I communes not included in Phase II. Separate household and commune questionnaires were applied in the samples based on questionnaires used in the bi-annual Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS), with additional questions introduced for elements of P135-II not covered by the VHLSS. A baseline survey report was subsequently published in December 2008 and the dataset is widely regarded to be the best and most comprehensive data source on the socio-economic status of ethnic minorities in Viet Nam currently available.
Phase II of the Programme was completed at the end of 2010 and UNDP, CEMA and Development Partners now intend to repeat the survey in 2011, in order to assess progress under the programme through Phase II and as an input to a comprehensive final evaluation of P135-II. The survey will also provide a quantitative baseline for the proposed Phase III of the programme, 2012-2015. Successive benchmark surveys over time will enable CEMA to develop a comprehensive view of changes in ethnic minority wellbeing, and track progress in meeting P135 objectives in target communes.
In order to manage the 2011 survey process, UNDP (on behalf of CEMA and Development Partners funding the survey) is now seeking to engage a consulting firm to manage all aspects of the survey process, as detailed in the remainder of this Terms of Reference (ToR).
All interested bidders are invited to participate the pre-bid meeting, to be organized for at 9.00 a.m. on 25 August 2011 in UNDP Rose Conference room , 72 Ly Thuong Kiet, Ha Noi to seek clarifications and full understanding of the requirements for this service for a better preparation of proposal.
Please submit technical and financial proposal to:
For paper submission:
UNDP Viet Nam
72 Ly Thuong Kiet, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Attention: Procurement Unit
Tel. (84-4) 3 9421495
Telefax number: (84-4) 3 9422267
For electronic submission in PDF:
Email: bidding.vn@undp.org