Research, Studies & Evaluation tenders in Kenya

7 open notices

Baseline and endline studies, impact evaluations, third-party monitoring, household surveys, feasibility and market studies, and applied policy research for development programmes.

Who buys research, studies & evaluation in Kenya

These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation notices open in Kenya right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Research, Studies & Evaluation market snapshot

Since 25 Sept 2026, FreeTender has recorded 35 research, studies & evaluation notices in Kenya, 6 of them open today. The median bid window is 7 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears.

Notices on record: 35
Open now: 6
Median bid window: 7 days
Median stated value: —

SeptOct

Most active research, studies & evaluation buyers

KENYA INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH6 notices
NUMERICAL MACHINING COMPLEX3 notices
ATHI WATER WORKS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY2 notices
KONZA TECHNOPOLIES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY2 notices
PWANI UNIVERSITY2 notices
KENYA CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY2 notices
KARATINA UNIVERSITY2 notices
NATIONAL IRRIGATION AUTHORITY1 notices
VETERINARY MEDICINES DIRECTORATE COUNCIL1 notices
PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS BOARD1 notices

By sub-sector

Applied & Policy Research1 notices

Procedures used

Request for quotation31 notices
Open tender4 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

Kenyan public procurement is conducted by individual procuring entities — ministries, counties, parastatals and universities — under the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, with notices published on entity websites, in the press and on the government tenders portal. County-level procurement is a significant and growing share.

Across the research, studies & evaluation notices we currently hold for Kenya, the most common form is the request for quotation, followed by open tender or invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Bidders need business registration, a valid tax compliance certificate, and typically registration with the procuring entity. Reservation schemes set aside a share of procurement for youth, women and persons with disabilities through the Access to Government Procurement Opportunities programme, which requires separate registration to claim.

Research and evaluation assignments are commissioned by UN agencies, development banks, bilateral donors and international NGOs, and are almost always awarded on quality-and-cost rather than price alone — commonly 70:30 or 80:20 in favour of the technical proposal. The decisive elements are the proposed methodology, the named team and the evaluator's independence from the programme being assessed. Expect to be asked for a sampling frame, an analysis plan, ethics and safeguarding arrangements for research with human subjects, and prior assignments of comparable scope. Terms of reference frequently name a specific framework — the OECD-DAC criteria for evaluations, or a donor's own results framework — and a proposal that ignores it loses marks that were freely available. Data ownership and publication rights normally sit with the commissioning agency; check whether you may cite the work later.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.