PPAF has received a credit from the International Development Association (IDA) and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to payments under the contract for hiring of a firm for Impact Assessment of PPAFs Basic Services Infrastructure Component.

This comprehensive impact assessment of PPAFs Basic Services and Infrastructure component will focus on the key areas of financial, economic and social returns of various interventions, to determine the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of investments in Basic Services and Infrastructure. The study will highlight changes in socio-economic conditions of beneficiary population benefitting from the Basic Services and Infrastructure component under PPAF-III, quantitatively and qualitatively, to be used for future policy making. Moreover, it shall determine the results of the project interventions, both intended and unintended, segregating interim impact in treatment and control areas, and comparing changes in the targeted households in relation to the earlier impact studies conducted in 2007 and 2009.

The PPAF now invites eligible consulting firms (Consultants) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. Firm consultants shall be evaluated on the basis of following criteria:

Registration with Government

• Please submit a copy of valid company registration certificate and NTN along with your EOI

Relevant Experience

• Firm should have at least 10 years of overall experience and at least five (5) years of relevant experience of evaluations of economic and community institutional development programs for small scale community water and infrastructure of comparable scale and complexity. . The Consultant should possess good knowledge of all concepts, principles and approaches required to carry out the assignment. Attach details of at least 3 relevant projects to validate this claim, and indicate the kinds of resources (human, material, knowledge, linkages) available to allow a fast paced delivery of services. Also attach a list containing all client firms/organizations the applying consultant has including development sector.

Geographical Presence

• Please list down the geographical presence of your firm in the country with full address(es).

Associated Human Resources

• Provide key staff details of those people who would be directly associated with the assignment for which you are expressing an interest. Also please include your organizational chart including professional staff strength related to assignment.

The firm(s) who would qualify the above criteria would be considered for next step i.e. Short listed firm(s) will be invited to submit the technical and financial proposal for the assignment.

It is required that consultants provide professional, objective, and impartial advice and at all times hold the clients interests paramount, without any consideration for future work, and that in providing advice they avoid conflicts with other assignments and their own corporate interests. Consultants shall not be hired for any assignment that would be in conflict with their prior or current obligations to other clients, or that may place them in a position of being unable to carry out the assignment in the best interest of the Borrower.