Cultivating New Frontiers In Agriculture (CNFA)- Request For Proposal For Review Of Policy On Contract Farming In Kaduna State

DEADLINE: 3RD MAY, 2021
CULTIVATING NEW FRONTIERS IN AGRICULTURE (CNFA)
RFP: REVIEW OF POLICY ON CONTRACT FARMING IN KADUNA STATE
Location: NG (Primary)

INTRODUCTION
The Feed the Future Nigeria Agribusiness Investment Activity is a USAID program implemented by CNFA in Nigeria. The goal of the Feed the Future Nigeria Agribusiness Investment Activity project is to strengthen the enabling environment for agribusiness finance and investment. To achieve this goal, the activity focuses on four interrelated components:

1) improving the agribusiness enabling environment;

2) broadening access to finance by mitigating the credit risks of agribusinesses;

3) facilitating investment opportunities for agribusinesses to expand and scale up operations; and

4) enhancing the performance of agribusiness Medium Small and Micro-Enterprise (MSMEs).

In line with the U.S. and Nigerian Government’s commitment to growing the non-oil-based economy, these efforts will increase the quality, quantity, market access, and diversification of Nigeria’s economy.

The Activity in collaboration with host state (Kaduna) therefore wish to conduct an in-depth review of Kaduna State’s existing contract farming policies and contractual relations between farmers and enterprises to determine the imperfections, if any, in the markets (both inputs and outputs) and recommend commercially viable incentives/value propositions for the out growers/contract farmers and the lead firm/contractors/off takers to continue in business and scale up operations.

Offerors are responsible for ensuring that their offers are received by CNFA in accordance with the instructions, terms, and conditions described in this RFP. Failure to adhere with instructions described in this RFP may lead to disqualification of an offer from consideration.

CNFA will consider proposals in response to this RFP from eligible “Independent Consultants or Firms.”

QUESTIONS
Questions regarding the technical or administrative requirements of this RFP may be submitted no later than 5:00PM WAT on April 28, 2021 by email to Asabi Anthony at aasabi@ag-invest.org . Questions must be submitted in writing; phone calls will not be accepted. Questions and requests for clarification—and the responses thereto—that CNFA believes may be of interest to other offerors will be circulated to all RFP recipients who have indicated an interest in bidding.

Only the written answers issued by CNFA will be considered official and carry weight in the RFP process and subsequent evaluation. Any verbal information received from employees of CNFA or any other entity should not be considered as an official response to any questions regarding this RFP.

APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Offer Deadline and Protocol: Offers must be received no later than 5:00PM, WAT, on May 03, 2021. Offers must be submitted by email to operations@ag-invest.org.

Please reference the RFP number in any response to this RFP. Offers received after the specified time and date will be considered late and will be considered only at the discretion of CNFA. The cover page of this solicitation summarizes the important dates of the solicitation process. Offerors must strictly follow the provided deadlines to be considered for award.

RFP: Contract Farming