Request for Proposal (RFP) at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

Posted by Future on Tue 28th Sep, 2021 - nigeriantenders.com

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) invites competent and interested consultants to indicate interest by submitting RFP documents to tender for the following works:

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an organisation that seeks to transform African agriculture from a subsistence model to strong businesses that improve the livelihoods of the continent’s farming households.

Applications are invited for:

Title: Request for Proposal (RFP) for Technical Assistant to Provide Business Development Services (BDS)

Scope of Work

The consultant will be expected to support PO-RALG Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Trade and Industries in the following strategic areas:

Designing and developing financial products that are appropriate for agricultural SMEs.
Designing guidelines on how to select beneficiaries of the local government funds for agriculture transformation interventions in relation to food systems.
Development of the selection criteria for the beneficiaries and putting in place mechanisms to support selected beneficiaries to succeed.
Building the business capacity of SMEs to be able to develop fundable business plans to be funded through the facility and other financial facilities.
Development of an M&E mechanism for tracking progress of this activity.
Development of sustainable scale-out models for government to sustain this innovation over subsequent budget cycles.
Providing coaching to assist selected SMEs to acquire skills on the procedures and requirements to access funds.
Provide recommendations to the Ministry of responsible for local government systems on the approach for disbursing funding to beneficiaries.

Mandatory Eligibility Requirements

Must be a registered firm/ organization in Tanzania
Provide a Certificate of Incorporation/Registration
Provide CVs of Key Personnel
List of past clients, description of similar work carried out, value of contract, include email and telephone contacts of the clients
Three reference letters of similar work carried out

Essential Requirements

Consulting firms submitting applications in response to this call must determine whether they meet the following requirements to be eligible for this assignment:

Minimum of 5-7 years of demonstrable organization working experience in similar assignments.
Experience in working with government systems in three or more similar projects in the last five years.
At least 5 years of work experience in the BDS field for small scale enterprises and financial service providers; in the agricultural sector or related sectors.
Experience working with SMEs in Developing countries. Experience in Tanzania will be an added advantage, preferably in evaluating business plans and developing performance improvement plans.
Sound knowledge about enterprise development interventions and market system development approach.
Good analytical, negotiation, problem solving and decision-making skills.
Proven track record in developing business development strategy.
Working experience with managerial level of SMEs is an asset.
Experience in designing co-finance approach-based business models.
Expertise on multi-stakeholder engagement.

Application Closing Date

5:00pm, 8th October, 2021.

Submission of Documents

All proposals SHALL be addressed and submitted to: procurement@agra.org

Note

The proposal and ALL Attachments submitted via email SHALL NOT exceed 10MB.
VALIDITY of the proposal shall be for a period of 90 days from the date of bid closure.
Financial proposal shall be sent as a separate attachment and MUST be password protected.
Proposal must be provided in English Language.
Please include the subject line “RFP-149-PID-2021” in the email.

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