DEADLINE: 4TH DECEMBER, 2025
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
ADOLESCENT GIRLS INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING AND EMPOWERMENT (AGILE)
PROJECT CREDIT NO.: 70460–NG
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR THE SELECTION OF A THIRD-PARTY MONITORING (TPM) MANAGEMENT FIRMS NOT NGOS
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has received financing from the World Bank for the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project.
The Project Development Objective is to improve secondary education opportunities for adolescent girls in targeted areas in the implementing states.
The AGILE Project seeks to engage the services of Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) Management Firms Not NGOs to provide necessary monitoring services and verify the completion of works and services executed across the Eighteen (18) participating States.
It is in view of the above, that the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project intends to engage the services of qualified Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) Firms for the AGILE Project in any one of the following Zones:
- Lot 1 comprising of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe
- Lot 2 comprising of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara
- Lot 3 comprising of Ekiti, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Delta and Enugu
Note: Only one firm will be selected for each Zone.
2.0 Objective:
The Objectives of the Assignment are as follows:
1. To monitor all activities being implemented on the AGILE projects in all implementing states
2. To build the capacity of the project staff on system strengthening and monitoring and evaluation
3. To provide technical assistance to the relevant staff to ensure project data is correctly reported quarterly.
3.0 Scope of the Assignment:
The selected TPM firms will be responsible for a range of tasks to ensure effective monitoring of the AGILE Project. Their primary responsibilities include:
1. Monitoring Construction Activities: Regularly visit construction sites to assess progress, quality, and compliance with standards outlined in the school construction/renovation manual. Provide independent verification of School Improvement Grants (SIGs) and ensure transparency in procurement and contract execution by School-Based Management Committees (SBMC).
2. Monitoring Capacity Building Programs: Assess the delivery of life-skills and digital-skills training in selected schools, ensuring that they meet the specified requirements.
3. Conditional Cash Transfer Monitoring: Monitor the delivery and impact of conditional cash transfers to ensure the correct beneficiaries are targeted and funds are appropriately disbursed.
4. General Monitoring of Project Activities: Monitor all project activities across components and sub-components as outlined in the PAD and PIM, ensuring progress against key performance indicators.
5. Verification and Reporting: Conduct final verification of project civil works and intermediate outputs, providing detailed reports on whether they meet the required specifications. Prepare draft and final verification reports for submission to the NPCU, including recommendations for course correction where necessary.
3.1 Additional Responsibilities:
- Ensure the existing MIS functions as an online/offline monitoring platform to record project findings, track progress in real time.
- Conduct practical training workshops in the use of the TPM digital monitoring platforms to the NPCU and SPIUs.
- Conduct a comprehensive exercise to evaluate the project’s effectiveness in achieving its development objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Conduct monthly meetings with M&E Officers from the NPCU and SPIUs to share findings and propose mitigation actions on monthly bases.
- Regularly produce monthly, quarterly, and six-monthly progress reports summarizing project status, challenges, and recommendations. Present findings to the NPCU and the World Bank
4.0 Expected Requirements for the Firm:
To perform the requested tasks/activities and achieve the desired objectives of this consultancy, the qualifying firms to be selected should:
Clearly demonstrate the legal name, organizational structure and indicate explicitly an expression of interest in the assignment as well as demonstrate a clear understanding of the assignment.
Be a provider of expert M&E, MIS and operational research services with demonstrable years/projects experience in, preferably, Nigeria or Africa or in developing countries.
Have team with proven experience in providing technical support and advisory services to project M&E units of the Federal and State PIUs, including good practices for greater transparency and improved governance, and developing M&E Systems to ensure that M&E is operational early in the project.
Experience in managing large, multi-state projects, with demonstrated expertise in construction monitoring, financial audits, and verifying large-scale social transfer programs (such as conditional cash transfers).
Have a proven track record/work in at least 3 projects financed by development organizations and/or the government during the last 10 years by providing TPM services including project implementation monitoring according to the project result matrix (including performance indicators for all activities, outcome, and objective, as well as means of verification). TPM services shall also include beneficiary’s assessment and monitoring at project communities and LGAs.
Have proof of high level ICT4D proficiency including database management. In view of prevailing security environment, it is pertinent to adopt the use of software such as Kobo Toolbox (a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environment), the use of GPS, Microsoft forms for data collection and storage, etc. Ability to set up and use online platforms such as Microsoft teams, Webex, skype for business, etc.
Method of Application/Submission of EOIs:
Interested Consultants should submit Expression of Interest detailing the following information as basis for pre-qualification:
- Profile of firm/consortium including ownership structure and role of each corporate entity with full name and contact details of each firm; clearly demonstrating understanding of the assignment).
- Proof of valid registration (i.e. certificate of incorporation with CAC) in the last 5 – 10 years plus; PenCom, ITF, NSITF, IRR valid till December 2024. This is required only from local consultants and not from international consultants.
- Sworn Affidavit: (i) disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Federal Ministry of Education or the Bureau of Public Procurement is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any peculiar interest in the bidder and to confirm that all information presented in its bid are correct in all particular; (ii) that no Director has been convicted in any country criminal offence relating to fraud or financial impropriety or criminal misrepresentation or falsification of facts relating to any matter;
The full Terms of References (TORs) for this assignment will be available to all interested Consultants:
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Annex iv of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers dated July 2016 and revised November 2017, August 2018 and November 2020 aishatuyusuf3@gmail.com. Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub consultancy to enhance their qualifications.
Selection Method:
The Consultancy firm will be selected through Open Consultants Qualification Selection (CQS) Method as set out in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers, 7th edition, September 2025 on www.worldbank.org/procurement.
All qualified firms/consultants are hereby invited to submit their intentions to undertake this assignment to the address below:
Further information can be obtained at the address below: during office hours 9.00 am to 4.00 pm, Monday through Friday (except public holidays) on Phone No. +234-09050153632, E-mail: agilefme.npcu@gmail.com and Phone No. +234-8036500030; E-mail: aishatuyusuf@yahoo.com
Expressions of Interest shall be in English and should not be more than thirty (30) pages and must be submitted in four (4) hard copies (One original and three copies plus one Flash drive/CD Rom), in a sealed envelope clearly marked “Expressions of Interest as AGILE Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) Management Firm”.
Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below in person or by courier mail, not later than 3:00pm on Thursday, December 4, 2025
NOTES/DISCLAIMER
i. NPCU shall verify any or all documents and claims made by applicants and will disqualify bidders with falsified documents and claims.
ii. If it is determined that submitted documents and claims have been falsified, the bidder may face prosecution in a court of Law.
iii. NPCU shall not be held responsible for any disqualified proposal because of any omission or deletion relating to the submission guidelines.
iv. This advertisement shall not be construed as a commitment on the part of NPCU to award a contract to any Contractor, nor shall it entitle any Contractor submitting documents to claim any indemnity from NPCU.
v. NPCU is not bound to shortlist any bidder, and reserves the right to annul the bidding process at any time without incurring any liabilities or providing reason.
Signed:
The National Project Coordinator,
Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project,
Federal Ministry of Education Annex,
Ground Floor,
Plot 245, Samuel Adesujo Ademelegun street,
Central Business District,
Abuja, Nigeria.
Attention :
Aisha D. Yusuf
+234-8036500030
Email: aishatuyusuf3@gmail.com
Only short-listed Consultants will be contacted.
