Long Term Arrangement for Mobile Money Cash disbursement services & Cash In Transit Payments for UNICEF Partners & Beneficiaries.

UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of Mobile Money Cash disbursement services & Cash In Transit Payments Services on a Long-Term Arrangement (LTA) for two years.

BRIEF BACKGROUND UNICEF Zambia Country Office has been implementing UN Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) since the start of the country programme cycle from January 2016 to Date. As required by HACT, the Country Office conducts micro-assessments before deciding the modality of assistance to its implementing partners. As a result, some partners do not meet the direct cash transfer modality requirements and the direct payment modality is recommended. For this type of modality to be implemented, UNICEF requires a vendor who can provide cash handling and disbursement for Mobile Money services and deliver cash to the partners under this modality regardless of the distance while ensuring that the risk of loss of resources on the part of UNICEF is reduced. To effectively manage the risk and ensure countrywide coverage, UNICEF is looking to identify a service provider with nationwide operations and effective systems to manage the risks of handling cash, and the capacity to report on implementation with evidence of disbursements on a timely basis. The Long-Term Agreement resulting from this procurement process will be used by other UN Agencies, approximately six, in Zambia.

OBJECTIVES / TARGET

The objective of this service provision is to enable UNICEF/UN Agencies in Zambia to continue with implementation of their Programmes with all their respective partners regardless of their partner’s financial management capacity. Direct payment is an important cash disbursement modality to ensure timely programme implementation while effectively managing risks.

IMOORTANT NOTE:

This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html .

In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission.

Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering.

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