SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Senegal II Willingness to Pay Survey - MCC-17-RFQ-0132
- Notice Date
- 7/27/2017
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- #541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, Washington DC, 1099 Fourteenth St NW, Suite 700, Washington, District of Columbia, 20005, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20005
- Solicitation Number
- MCC-17-RFQ-0132
- Archive Date
- 9/5/2017
- Point of Contact
- Janet M. Carlson, Phone: 2027726309, Jacqueline H. Naranjo, Phone: 202-521-2692
- E-Mail Address
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carlsonj@mcc.gov, naranjoj@mcc.gov
(carlsonj@mcc.gov, naranjoj@mcc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Attachment J 5 Attachment J 4 Attachment J 3 Attachment J 2 Attachment J 1 Senegal II Willingness to Pay Survey MCC-17-RFQ-0132 SECTION C - DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/STATEMENT OF WORK C.1. Introduction and Background The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a United States government-owned corporation created under Title VI of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 and is responsible for the stewardship of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). MCC works with developing countries to promote sustainable economic growth to reduce poverty. Eligible countries develop specific investment programs in furtherance of the goal of economic development to be funded by MCC over a five-year period and implemented by the country partner. In December 2015, MCC's Board of Directors selected Senegal for a second compact. The Government of Senegal (GoS) established the Unité pour la Formulation et Coordination d'un Second Compact MCA-Senegal (UFC-MCA), to lead its compact development efforts. The compact development process began with a constraints analysis, which identified the high cost of energy and low access to electricity as one of the two most binding constraints to economic growth in Senegal. After the constraints analysis, MCC and UFC-MCA conducted a root cause analysis, which resulted in concept notes that MCC's and UFC-MCA's respective board of directors have approved. In May 2017, MCC and UFC-MCA began the project definition phase, which includes commissioning studies and further analysis to better understand the activities that could be implemented to address the root causes identified in the previous phase. These activities will align with the Government of Senegal's energy sector strategy articulated in the Plan Sénégal Émergent (PSE) and leverage other actors' efforts in supporting the Senegalese energy sector. Activities may include a combination of infrastructure and non-infrastructure investments in the following general areas: a) diversification and efficiency improvements for Senegal's generation portfolio; b) policy reform and regulatory and institutional strengthening; c) modernization of the transmission and distribution network; d) improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Senelec (GoS's national electricity company); and e) increased opportunities for electrification in rural and peri-urban areas. The primary economic benefits from the five-year MCC compact with the GoS may derive from the following: reduced fiscal burden associated with GoS subsidies, efficiency gains or reduced cost of service of the national electrical utility and independent power producers, reduced cost of electricity consumption for households and businesses, and increased electricity consumption. A key assumption of the economic model is that by making supply for electric energy more adequate and reliable, and by making the tariff system transparent, businesses and households will shift from using alternative energy sources (relatively more expensive) to using electricity. A longer-term economic benefit may include increased income and productivity as a result of higher quality and more reliable electricity. C.2. Objectives/Scope The objective of this Request for Quote (RFQ) is to receive prospective contractors' capabilities to provide professional services to collect data from households and businesses in Senegal to assess: C.2.1. The potential economic benefit of the incremental value of using higher energy value and lower cost per unit of electric service instead of alternative energy sources such as generators, candles, kerosene lamps, and batteries for lighting and household appliances. C.2.2. Households' and firms' willingness to pay (WTP) for more reliable electricity supply. To assess the economic benefit and the WTP for additional electricity, or energy services MCC and UFC-MCA propose to use a comprehensive survey of households and businesses with and without a more reliable electric service to determine, in the most reliable way possible, their current and potential energy expenditures. The data collected from this household and business-energy-use survey will illustrate the consumers' preference for reliable electric service and/or energy services. Attachments J.1 and J.2 are examples of similar survey types used in Benin. C.3. Roles and Responsibilities MCC & UFC-MCA Responsibilities: The MCC, UFC-MCA, along with the contractor, play critical roles in designing, and implementing the data collection. The MCC and UFC-MCA roles are as follows: C.3.1. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC): MCC is responsible for oversight of the contractor and quality control of data collection activities, including the following specific responsibilities: a. Build buy-in and ownership of the research and analysis; b. Contract and supervise the contractor; c. Conduct quality reviews of all products (work plan, reports, questionnaires, etc.); d. Facilitate public dissemination efforts to inform decision-makers on learning generated by the contractor; e. Oversee preparation of public-use data that ensures appropriate balance of enabling verification of analysis and broad use of the data with adherence to promises of confidentiality to survey respondents; and f. Determine the budget. C.3.2. UFC-Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and country partners: MCA and country partners are responsible for building local ownership and commitment to the studies, and conduct quality control of activities, including the following specific responsibilities: a. Build buy-in and ownership of the research and analysis; b. Conduct quality reviews of all products (work plans, reports, questionnaires, etc.); and c. Facilitate public dissemination efforts. C.3.3. Contractor: The Contractor is responsible for the overall design and implementation of the research and data collection, including the following specific responsibilities: a. Develop high-quality and feasible survey design, protocols, and instruments; b. Ensure appropriate review of evaluation materials and research protocols by an institutional review board (IRB) and local research institutions; c. Prepare for data collection including recruiting and training necessary personnel and piloting the survey instruments; d. Manage all phases of data collection; e. Lead data cleaning; f. Support MCC and UFC-MCA (when necessary and feasible) to build buy-in and ownership of research. g. Draft technical report for firms and households C.4. Tasks C.4.1. Document Review: The contractor will review documents on the Senegal II compact development process, the energy sector in Senegal, and relevant national-level statistical studies (e.g. national enterprise survey). C.4.2. Work plan development: The contractor will draft and submit a work plan with expected deadlines for deliverables. It should include plans related to finalizing the survey instrument, training, testing and piloting data collection instruments, data collection implementation, and data cleaning. C.4.3. Survey protocol development: The contractor should provide a document summarizing all survey protocols related to the sampling frame, drop criteria, replacement strategy, target respondent, informed consent, protection of human subjects, interview techniques, security, and data quality. The contractor is expected to propose a sample, which will be representative at the national level with over-sampling in a few key regions to be determined at a later time. This sampling approach is subject to change. The contractor may propose random stratified sampling according to characteristics such as number of employees and sector for businesses and electricity access for households. The contractor may also identify initial within strata variables such as sex or age of the head of household or business owner. It is expected that approximately 3,000 households and 1,000 businesses would be included in the sample. The contractor is expected to collect geographic coordinates for each household and business that is surveyed. The contractor is expected to work on sampling with the national statistical agency, ANSD, to obtain access to national census data, the Répertoire National des Entreprises et associations (RNEA), and the cartography of Senegal. C.4.4. Survey instrument development: MCC and UFC-MCA will provide the contractor with a first draft of the survey questionnaire, which the contractor will use as reference and modify it as they see fit. MCC and UFC-MCA will provide final approval on the survey instrument, English or French version. The contractor will be responsible for translating the survey instrument into national languages. The contractor will propose the national languages for translation based on the tradeoffs between translation costs and preventing bias from having too few languages. C.4.5. Survey testing and piloting: In accordance with its testing and piloting plan (Task C.4.2), the contractor will pilot the survey for at least 20 households and 10 businesses. The contractor will train supervisors who will conduct the piloting. The contractor will submit a pilot report including clean data from the pilot. A third party is expected to develop a software application for Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) with smartphones and tablets and train the data collection team in its use. C.4.6. Data collection training: The contractor will hire and train the supervisors and interviewers in accordance with the training plan developed under Task C.4.2. MCC and the contractor will provide training of trainers before the main data collection training. The contractor will prepare training materials (e.g. manual and PowerPoint presentations), which MCC will review and validate. The training should cover the entire questionnaire and all survey protocols. It should also include how to use the tablet, mock interviewing, pilot testing in the field, time for debrief, and a test to select interviewers. C.4.7. Data collection and monitoring data quality: The contractor is responsible for implementing data collection and monitoring data quality in accordance to its relevant plans developed under task 2. C.4.8. Data cleaning: The Contractor will provide clean data sets with geo-referenced observations. Any missing values should be coded consistently. All variables should be named and labelled according to MCC's specifications. C.4.9. Analytical report (optional - CLIN 0002): The Contractor will draft two analytical reports summarizing the study's findings for households and firms. MCC expects the following non-exhaustive topic areas to be included in both reports: methodology and study limitations, socio-economic and demographic information of respondents, energy consumption (level, type, unserved demand...), energy access and perceptions of quality of service, and willingness to pay. See attachments J.3 and J.4 for examples. (End of SECTION C)
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