| Overview : Dear Sir / Madam: We kindly request you to submit your Proposal for a Consulting firm for the Implementation of a Study on Strengthening Africa’s Borderlands Informal Social Protection Mechanisms. Please be guided by the form attached hereto as Annex 1 to 4, in preparing your Proposal. Proposals may be submitted on or before Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 12:00 PM and subject of the email should be REFERENCE: RFP/STRENGTHENING AFRICA’S BORDERLAND /2021/009 via ☑E-mail : bids.lr@undp.org Your Proposal must be expressed in English, and valid for a minimum period of 120 Days In the course of preparing your Proposal, it shall remain your responsibility to ensure that it reaches the address above on or before the deadline. Proposals that are received by UNDP after the deadline indicated above, for whatever reason, shall not be considered for evaluation. If you are submitting your Proposal by email, kindly ensure that they are signed and in the .pdf format, and free from any virus or corrupted files. Services proposed shall be reviewed and evaluated based on completeness and compliance of the Proposal and responsiveness with the requirements of the RFP and all other annexes providing details of UNDP requirements. The Proposal that complies with all of the requirements, meets all the evaluation criteria and offers the best value for money shall be selected and awarded the contract. Any offer that does not meet the requirements shall be rejected. Any discrepancy between the unit price and the total price shall be re-computed by UNDP, and the unit price shall prevail, and the total price shall be corrected. If the Service Provider does not accept the final price based on UNDP’s re-computation and correction of errors, its Proposal will be rejected. | 
