NITI Aayog: Consultant to be hired to study impact of rural jobs scheme

The Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), an attached office of NITI Aayog, has invited bids to assess the rural employment guarantee scheme, and is expected to award the contract by December 10.

The consultant will be chosen through a two-tier process comprising separate technical and financial bids. The study will have a six-month duration from the date of signing of the contract.

“The consultant would undertake comprehensive research on the secondary data and extant literature. It would undertake a field survey of a minimum of 20,065 households (HHs), and other qualitative interviews spread across 14 states using computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI),” the DMEO said.

The household survey will cover five financial years till FY24.
In the first stage, a technical evaluation will be done based on which a list of shortlisted applicants will be prepared. In the second stage, a financial evaluation will be carried out and the proposals will be ranked as per their combined technical and financial scores. “The first ranked applicant shall be selected for negotiation,” DMEO said in the request for proposal (RFP) floated to invite bids from both national and international entities. As per the RFP document, the chosen consultant will have to set up a multi-disciplinary team for implementing the task. This would include a team leader, a monitoring and evaluation specialist, a rural development expert, a labour specialist, an infrastructure specialist, a statistician, and a data management and analytics specialist, and a content writer.

All key personnel, except the content writer, will be deployed for the entire duration of the evaluation study, it said.