Frame Agreement for Evaluation Services
Request for Expressions of Interest
Deadline: 15 November 2024 14:00 CET, Geneva time
The content of the Invitation for Expressions is reproduced here. Potential suppliers are strongly advised to consult the original notice and EOI document, accessible from the ICRC’s procurement website.
Humanitarian evaluations at the ICRC
The ICRC seeks to establish long-term frame agreements with humanitarian evaluation suppliers that have experience in contexts and issues related to conflict and other situations of violence. The frame agreement is expected to be operational from mid-2025, initially for a two-year period with the potential to extend. The purpose of the frame agreements is to facilitate the ICRC’s access to qualified suppliers to conduct evaluations. The frame agreements are managed by the Evaluation Office which supports teams in HQ and across all delegations to commission evaluations. The ICRC anticipates that more than half of its 70+ evaluations annually will be commissioned via the frame agreements. This includes both centralised evaluations commissioned by the Evaluation Office and decentralised evaluations commissioned in HQ and delegations.
Eligibility for participating in the full Request for Proposals
Expressions of Interest are invited from evaluation suppliers for the ICRC to identify companies with relevant expertise in conducting evaluations in conflict affected contexts.
The purpose of this expression of interest is for the ICRC to identify companies:
- With multiple areas of expertise and experience
- With expertise and experience in one or more areas that are frequently the subject of evaluations (e.g. WatHab, EcoSec, Health, Protection)
- With highly specialist expertise relevant to the ICRC’s unique mandate and operations in one or more areas
Selected companies will be invited to participate in the full Request for Proposals (RFP), through which they will demonstrate evidence of their experience below. The RFP will require further information about capabilities and approaches. Companies that are not awarded a frame agreement, may still be invited to participate to bid for evaluations that are outside of the frame agreements; often procured via restricted tenders and occasionally via public tenders.
Timeline for the Frame Agreement for Evaluation Services
- 01 October 2024, Expression of Interest published
- 15 November 2024, Deadline for Expression of Interest
- Review and selection of companies to invite to RFP
- 13 January 2025, RFP invitation sent to selected companies
- 10 February 2025, 9:00 & 16:00 GVA time, Online briefing for suppliers (attendance by a representative of the company is a mandatory requirement of the process)
- 14 March 2025, Closing date for RFP
- Review and selection of companies to qualify
- 05 May 2025, Decision communicated to selected companies
- 01 June 2025, Frame Agreements valid from this date subject to signing
The above timeline does not include any possibility for companies to submit questions directly, nor request individual calls/meetings.
Expression of Interest proforma
Please complete this form and return to Kevin Allen kallen@icrc.org by 15 November 2024, 14:00 CET, Geneva time.
Q1: Company contact details
- Company name
- Address
- Phone number
- Website
- Contact person name
- Contact person email
Q2: Number of years of experience
Experience in delivering evaluations of responses in humanitarian contexts (conflict and other situations of violence)
- Experience of the company in delivering evaluations of responses in humanitarian contexts (conflict and other situations of violence)
- Typical Team Leaders’ experience in delivering evaluations of responses in humanitarian contexts (conflict and other situations of violence)
Q3: Example humanitarian evaluation reports
Provide hyperlinks to a maximum of 3 published reports of evaluations conducted by the company of responses in humanitarian contexts (conflict and other situations of violence)
Q4: Evaluation experience in humanitarian (conflict-affected) contexts
Evaluation experience in humanitarian contexts
- International and non-international armed conflicts
- Other situations of violence
- Protracted crisis and transition
- Post-conflict
Q5: Humanitarian evaluation experience in geographies
Humanitarian evaluation experience in geographies
- Region: Africa
- Region: Americas
- Region: Asia Pacific
- Region: Europe and Central Asia
- Region: Near and Middle East
- Countries (please list in this space)
Q6: Humanitarian evaluation experience in subject matters
Please indicate the number of evaluations conducted by the company per subject matter in bold text. The text in bullet points illustrates areas of the ICRC’s work according to the subject matter in bold.
Supporting Economic Security
- Agriculture, livestock and market support and development
- Income generation/livelihoods
- Cash for basic needs
Relation with Arms Carriers (dialogue and training)
- With armed forces, police and gendarmerie, and military armed groups
Supporting Health Services
- Primary Health Care (Communicable diseases, NCDs, Vaccinations, SRH)
- Hospital services (Infection control and prevention, Surgery, Emergency care, Paediatrics, Hospital management)
- Physical rehabilitation
- MHPSS
- First Aid and pre-hospital care
- Health services in detention
International Law
- Promoting and disseminating the law at international and national levels
- Monitoring and ensuring respect of the law
Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement
- Surge support and national society rapid deployment
- Partnership working and cooperation
Influence, policy, external communication
- Preserving physical & digital archives
- External communications and influencing
Providing Water and Habitat Services
- Urban essential services (infrastructure rehabilitation, systemic support)
- Water, sanitation and habitat services to people
- Shelter and WASH in emergencies
Building capacities on weapon contamination
- CBRN hazards
- Risk awareness and safer behaviours
- Survey, assessment, risk mitigation, clearance
Protection of people separated, missing, and dead
- Search
- Restoring family links
- Data protection
- Forensic data collection and management
Protection of civilian populations
- Monitoring and documentation of violations, issues and trends related to the treatment of civilians
- Sexual violence, access to education, health workers and facilities
- Specific vulnerabilities of IDPs, migrants and children
- Protection and prevention dialogue related to the conduct of hostilities
Protection of people deprived of their liberty
- Support to people in detention and released
- Prevention and response to ill-treatment, torture and forced disappearances
- Prison management and conditions of detention
Relevant to multiple responses and contexts
- Emergency response
- Crisis management
- Emergency preparedness
- Protection dialogue
- Accountability to affected people
- The ICRC’s neutral intermediary role
- Capacity building and institutional strengthening
- Humanitarian organisational management and development
- Harmful misinformation
- New technologies and cyberwarfare
Q7: OPTIONAL: Additional information about humanitarian evaluation experience
Add any relevant additional information about the company’s experience conducting humanitarian evaluations. (max 150 words)
How to apply
Details for submission are available in the EOI document accessible via the ICRC’s procurement website.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is pleased to invite you to participate in a Request for Expressions of Interest with an objective to pre-select suppliers to be invited to an upcoming Request for Proposal covering Frame Agreements for Evaluation Services.
Please find all pertinent information and the related supporting documents for this EOI below.
The closing date for submission of responses is: November 15th, 2024 at 14:00 (CET, Geneva time).
At this Request for Expressions of Interest stage, it will not be possible for interested companies to submit questions nor request to arrange discussion calls/meetings.