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Research, Studies & Evaluation tenders in Saudi Arabia

35 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 Saudi Arabia

These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation notices open in Saudi Arabia 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.

How they buy

Saudi government procurement is centralised on Etimad, the national platform, through which ministries, agencies, health clusters and municipalities publish competitions. Notices are published in Arabic and the platform distinguishes competition types — general competition, limited competition and direct purchase — with the activity classification stated on each notice.

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

What qualifies you

Bidding requires registration on Etimad and a commercial registration, and most competitions require the bidder to be locally registered or working through a local entity. The Local Content and Government Procurement Authority rules give weight to local content in evaluation for many categories, so the share of Saudi content in your offer can affect scoring as well as eligibility. Documents and correspondence are generally in Arabic.

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.

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