Research, Studies & Evaluation tenders in United States

Who buys research, studies & evaluation in United States

These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation notices open in United States 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.

• DEPT OF DEFENSE · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY · 8
• AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF · FOREST SERVICE · San Bernardino National Forest · 2
• COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF · OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY · DEPT OF COMMERCE ESA · 2
• DEPT OF DEFENSE · DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE · SPACE SYSTEMS COMMAND · FA2521 45 CONS LGC · 2
• NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION · NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION · NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER · 2
• VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF · VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF · 241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01 (36C241) · 2
• JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF · ATF ACQUISITION AND PROPERTY MGMT DIV · ATF · 1
• LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF · OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT · DOL - CAS DIVISION 5 PROCUREMENT · 1

How they buy

Across the research, studies & evaluation notices we currently hold for United States, 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

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.

Open research, studies & evaluation tenders in United States