Regional Expression of Interest for Cash & Voucher Financial Services
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST NUMBER EOI-OMJ-001-14 FOR PROVISION OF CASH & VOUCHER FINANCIAL SERVICES TO UNWFP FOOD ASSSITANCE PROGRAMMES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.
The UNWFP Southern Africa Regional office in Johannesburg wishes to establish a shortlist of potential financial/payment service providers with proven capacity to set up, maintain, and manage a secure, effective and efficient electronic (phone or card based) solution that can deliver cash or food vouchers in different programmes in diverse online and offline contexts across several countries in the region. In 2013, the region planned to support an estimated 20 million food insecure people, of whom 2.7 million were through cash and voucher based transfers. UNWFP envisages increasing the volume of assistance via cash and vouchers where contexts are appropriate.
UNWFP hereby invites interested potential service provider, with the ability to operate in at least 3 countries in Southern Africa Development Corporation (SADC) region, to express their interest by contacting UNWFP through the following dedicated email address, procurement.odj@wfp.org not later than 25th April 2014, 17:00 hours (Johannesburg time). Potential service providers, who have expressed interests, will receive a questionnaire to be completed and submitted. UNWFP will send the questionnaires with submission instructions. The received completed questionnaires will be used to pre-qualify potential service providers who will later be invited to participate in a competitive bidding exercise.