Request for Proposal (RFP) for National Corruption Perception and Experience Poll

BACKGROUND

Pact is an International NGO with offices throughout the world with a mission to enable systematic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems and transforming markets into a force for development. A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground in more than 30 countries to improve the lives of those who are poor and marginalized.

Pact has worked in Ukraine since 2006 in the areas of governance, capacity development, and health. Building on a decade of experience, we address key challenges facing civil society organizations in Ukraine. The purpose of the USAID-funded Enhance Non-Governmental Actors and Grassroots Engagement activity implemented by Pact in Ukraine (hereinafter – “USAID/ENGAGE”) is to increase citizen awareness of and engagement in civic actions at the national, regional and local level.

Pact needs to procure the services of polling agency to conduct a public opinion survey on Corruption Perception and Experiences in Ukraine that will be based on a large sample of responses that is representative for oblast-level analysis. The survey gauges the opinion and perceptions of over 10,000 respondents all over Ukraine. It analyzes attitudes of the adult population towards corruption, citizens’ experiences with corruption, citizens’ assessments of the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures, and overall corruption perception and experience by oblast.

  1. Place of Performance

All services required under this solicitation will be performed in Ukraine

  1. Period of Performance

All goods and services required under this solicitation will be delivered from November 2020 and will conclude by March 31, 2021

  1. Scope of Work

The Contract will entail provision of the following services:

One round of public opinion polling conducted throughout Ukraine (24 oblasts and Kyiv city, excluding temporarily occupied territories). The main objective of the public opinion poll is to measure corruption perception and experiences amongst citizens of Ukraine. The poll will include approximately 100 questions and shall provide a comprehensive overview of:

  • attitudes of the adult population towards the problem of corruption;
  • citizen assessments of the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures taken by authorities and other anti-corruption actors;
  • citizen perception and experiences with corruption;
  • changes in perception and in the experiences of corruption;
  • the public’s willingness to engage in anti-corruption activities;
  • overall corruption perception and experience indexes by regions of Ukraine.

The survey sample should be representative of and disaggregated by oblast, gender and age, income, employment, and rural vs. urban areas.

  1. Submission Instructions

Electronic submissions must be received at the address specified below by October 29, 2020.

Submissions must be forwarded in electronic format only (either PDF or Microsoft Word and Excel) to tenders.engage@pactworld.org. Offeror’s proposals should not contain any unnecessary promotional material or elaborate presentation formats (black and white is preferred). Offerors must not submit zipped files. The technical proposal and cost proposal must be kept separate from each other.  Those pages requiring original manual signatures should be scanned and sent in PDF format as an email attachment. Please indicate “RFP P4767-2020-13” in the e-mail subject line.

  1. Questions and Clarifications Due by October 20, 2020

NOTE: Before applying please read the full text of the RFP here:  https://pactworld.box.com/s/hfveda42huizgra2kcg91156ai6yfhlc