Product Development And Business Modeling Consultancy – Mercy Corps

MERCY CORPS TENDER 2021 

Mercy Corps is a non-religious, non-profit and non-governmental international humanitarian organization.

Program Overview

AgriF in Digital Farmer II [ADF 2] currently represents a $12 million, four-year AgriF in program working in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, with potential to expand to other markets (Uganda, Zambia+3. In partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates and Bayer Foundations, ADF 2 seeks to support the expansion of digitally-enabled services to 5 million smallholder farmers, delivered by growing ecosystems of diverse service providers and building farmer income, productivity and resilience across by 50% while reaching 40% women.

The program’s core innovations are: 1] a rapid iteration engagement model to drive innovative, client-­centric product development; and 2] our work with partners to develop “bundles’’ of mobile-enabled services offering farmers affordable access to digital financial and market informational services. Our support programming is focused on enabling the following critical areas of innovation, that will follow an ecosystem and market facilitation approach supported through partnership activities and dissemination of evidence-based learning to ecosystem actors following a Market Systems Development [MSD] approach, with a strong gender focus:

• Climate-Smart approaches to SHF Climate Adaptation & Mitigation
• Agricultural Advisory and Smart Farming Solutions
• Gender Transformative Programming
• Appropriate Digitally-Enabled Financial Services for SHF
• Digital Platform Models Providing Market Access, Financing, Information and Resources
• Digital Channels, Logistics and Mechanization
• Use of Digital Data for Decisioning, Product Development & Risk Management.

Mercy Corps is seeking a supplier to conduct a Product Development and Business Modeling consultancy.

The project is located at Nairobi, Kenya.

Tender packages are available either at Mercy Corps official website
https://www.mercycorps.org/tender or, Mercy Corps Agrifin’s website
https://www.mercycorpsagrifin.org/tenders or “by submitting a request to the following e-mail
address: agrifinprocurement@mercycorps.org

All questions to be submitted or forwarded to agrifinprocurement@mercycorps.org

Tenders must be submitted to tenders@mercycorps.org  or physically at Mercy Corps Agrifin office located at ABC Place | Building 2/3rd Floor Nairobi. Kenya by [05.00 PM EAT, 9^th April, 2021].

Only tenders submitted in prescribed form and deadlines will be considered. Only legally registered firms
will be considered.

All tenders should be submitted in sealed envelopes or via email clearly marked:

“[MC-AG/NB0/038/MSA/ 2021-23 & Product Development and Business modeling
consultancy]”