Invitation to bid.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is undertaking an internal audit on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Data Quality. This audit aims to provide assurance on the accuracy of data reported through NRC’s MEAL systems and assess the consistency and effectiveness of current data quality audit practices.
As part of the audit, NRC will engage an external consultant to support the country selection, planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases. This consultancy will contribute to ensuring reliable evidence of NRC’s impact, in line with NRC’s 2022–2025 Strategic Objectives and 2030 Ambition.
The consultancy is home-based with provision to travel to NRC country offices where needed.
Objectives
- Review existing MEL frameworks, guidelines, and tools
- Assess data quality audit methodologies, standardisation, and outputs
- Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Conduct interviews and site visits for verification of data
- Provide advisory notes to strengthen internal controls related to MEL
- Draft technical inputs for the Audit Working Paper and Report
Institutional and organisational arrangements
The consultant will report to Thokozani Kasinja, IA Specialist Adviser, who will be the consultant’s primary point of contact for this project.
NRC will own the intellectual property rights to all materials submitted by the consultants under the contract. The consultants must therefore ensure that they have possession of any materials provided to NRC as a part of the deliverable. The rights to reproduce the reports will fall to NRC and its contracted agents. NRC will be free to reproduce the materials at will and to grant reproduction rights.
Implementation schedule and estimated inputs
This consultancy is expected to take 30 working days and should be finished by 31st March 2026.
A timeline for each individual piece of work will be developed in collaboration with the consultant directly.
How to apply
The consultant or consultant's company will submit the consultancy proposal (bid) in accordance with the requirements bellow:
NRC will only accept complete bid documents presented on electronic format (preferably PDF for signed documents) and submitted by email to logistics@nrc.no.
The price proposal shall be provided on a separate sheet, as a quotation in signed PDF format. The price must be net and include all taxes and fees. The consultant will be paid in the quoted currency.
All documents must be signed, either electronically or manually.
The entire bid shall preferably be delivered in one single email (whenever possible). The subject of the email will be presented as such: GSC/REF tender 2502 - Bid - <NAME OF THE BIDDER>
The deadline for submission is: 28th of October 2025 at 23h59 (Oslo time).
