Request for Proposal (RFP) - Procurement of a Consultant / Firm(s) at Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)

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

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) invites qualified and interested Independent Consultants and Firm's to tender RFP documents for the following works:

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) is an international agricultural development organization that specializes in the design and implementation of sustainable, enterprise-based agricultural initiatives.

We work with businesses, foundations, governments, and communities to build customized local and global partnerships that meet the world’s growing demand for food. Since our inception in 1985, we have designed and implemented enterprise-based, agricultural development initiatives to facilitate market access, enhance agribusiness competitiveness, increase productivity, and improve access to inputs and financing in 47 countries around the world.

Applications are invited for:

Title: Request for Proposal (RFP) - Procurement of a Consultan

t(s) / Firm(s) to provide management consultancy services to businesses, across the Activity’s seven states

Preamble

The Nigeria Agribusiness Investment Activity (NAIA) is a USAID activity implemented by CNFA in Nigeria. The goal of the NAIA is to strengthen the enabling environment for agribusiness finance and investment. To achieve this goal, the NAIA focuses on four interrelated components: (i) improving the enabling environment for agricultural sector growth; (ii) broadening access to finance by mitigating the credit risks of agribusinesses; (iii) promoting and facilitating investment opportunities for agribusinesses to expand and scale up operations; and (iv) sustainably enhancing the performance of agribusiness micro, small and medium size enterprises (MSMEs). The NAIA operates in seven states of Benue, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Niger and Kebbi along soybean, maize, aquaculture, rice, and cowpea value chains.

As part of project activities, the NAIA requires management consultancy services to support NAIA’s agribusiness partners to strengthen their organizational capacities and help meet the loan requirements for any financing opportunities, across its seven states (Benue, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Kebbi, and Niger States). The purpose of this RFP is to solicit quotations for these services.

Offerors are responsible for ensuring that their offers are received by CNFA in accordance with the instructions, terms, and conditions described in this RFP. Failure to adhere with instructions described in this RFP may lead to disqualification of an offer from consideration.

Scope of Work

Lot 1 / Organizational Performance Improvement Needs (OPINA) assessment
Lot 2 / POST OPINA Business Development
Lot 3 / Post OPINA Good Manufacturing Practices
Lot 4 / OPIRA (Organizational Performance Improvement Repeat Assessment)
Lot 5 / Digital marketing Training

Application Closing Date

4:00pm (WAT), 10th January, 2022.

Submission of Documents

Offers must be submitted by email to: operations@ag-invest.org

Disclaimers
This is a Request for Proposals only. Issuance of this RFP does not in any way obligate CNFA, the Nigeria Agribusiness Investment Activity, or USAID to make an award or pay for costs incurred by potential offerors in the preparation and submission of an offer. In addition:

CNFA may cancel RFP and not award
CNFA may reject any or all responses received
Issuance of RFP does not constitute award commitment by CNFA
CNFA reserves the right to disqualify any offer based on offeror failure to follow RFP instructions
CNFA will not compensate offerors for response to RFP
CNFA reserves the right to issue award based on initial evaluation of offers without further discussion
CNFA may negotiate with short-listed offerors for their best and final offer
CNFA reserves the right to order additional quantities or units with the selected offeror
CNFA may reissue the solicitation or issue formal amendments revising the original RFP specifications and evaluation criteria before or after receipt of proposals
CNFA may modify the specifications without issuing a formal notice to all offerors when the revisions are immaterial to the scope of the RFP
CNFA may choose to award only part of the activities in the RFP, or issue multiple awards based on multiple RFP activities
CNFA reserves the right to waive minor proposal deficiencies that can be corrected prior to award determination to promote competition.

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