ADVETISEMENT
CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO DEVELOP A MONITORING AND EVALUATION STRATEGY FOR THE LESOTHO ELECTRICITY AND WATER AUTHORITY
- Introduction
The Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority is a statutory body established in terms of the LEA Act of 2002 as amended to regulate the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) and Urban Water and Sewerage Services Sub-sector (UWSSS) in Lesotho. The Act gives the Authority powers to regulate activities in the ESI and UWSSS, through established regulatory frameworks. For prudent conduct of its business, the Authority developed a Corporate Governance Handbook (hereafter referred to as the Handbook), which provides basic information about LEWA’s corporate governance framework. The Handbook mandates LEWA to develop a Strategic Plan to determine its direction every
five years.
In pursuance of the above, LEWA developed a new Strategic Plan (SP) 2024/25-2028/29. The SP constitutes a road map that will be followed by the Authority in the next five years, as it endeavours to deliver on its mandate.
2. Background, Context and Objective
One of the Strategic Focus Areas of the Strategic Plan, is Monitoring and of LEWA operations under which the Authority is required to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy and Plan for LEWA. Monitoring and Evaluation is intended to improve the organisational
performance and achieve results, through measurement and assessment of performance in order to manage the outputs, outcomes and impact in the implementation of the Strategic Plan. To achieve this, LEWA wishes to develop and implement a Monitoring and Evaluation
Strategy to establish a sustainable monitoring and evaluation system for tracking of progress and demonstrating results in the implementation of the Strategic Plan and to ensure evidence-based decision making.
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Strategy is further intended to improve the quality and capacity of data collection, reporting and strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation culture within LEWA. The Strategy shall focus on each of the Strategic Focus Areas (SFAs),
corresponding Strategic Goals (SGs), Strategic Objectives (SOs) and Strategic Interventions (SIs) as reflected in the Strategic Plan.
The M&E Strategy will guide LEWA in identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources, while at the same time guiding collection and analysis of strategic information required for the implementation of the Strategic Plan.
In pursuit of the above, LEWA invites experienced service providers to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy that is aligned with the Strategic Plan 2024/25-2028/29.
The main objective of this consultancy is to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy for LEWA, which will cover, amongst other things, the following:
- Monitoring and Evaluation framework including but not limited to defining indicators, targets, baseline, data collection frequency, data collection sources, and means of verification; and
- Evaluation Framework and evaluation methods.
3. Information required in the proposal
Bidders are requested to provide their proposals in two parts i.e Technical and Financial proposals in separate sealed envelopes placed in one main envelope and marked accordingly. LEWA reserves the right not to consider any proposal that does not include at least the
following:
(a) Technical requirements
The technical proposal must contain the following information:
i. Detailed methodology to address the terms of reference;
ii. A detailed work plan with milestone and deliverables;
iii. Proposed project team, project management and availability of project team members and their curriculum vitae.
iv. Project list demonstrating the involvement of the proposed project team in a similar assignment;
v. Company or consortium profile; and
vi. Demonstration of a track record of projects undertaken in similar assignments.
(b) Financial requirements
The financial proposal must provide the cost for completing the project in Lesotho or South African currency.
All envelopes must bear no names and address of the bidder.
The deadline for submission of Proposals is on or before 12:00 noon 25 September 2024.
TENDERS IN SEALED ENVELOPES CLEARLY MARKED “TENDERS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A MONITORING AND EVALUATION STRATEGY” must be deposited in the tender box placed at LEWA Offices 7th Floor Moposo House, bearing no marks to Tenderer’s identification.
The full Terms of Reference can be downloaded from LEWA websitewww.lewa.org.ls
The Proposals should be addressed to:
The Procurement Committee
Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority
7th Floor Moposo House
Maseru 100