Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in India

Independence, evaluation design and the data a verifier is expected to produce

Monitoring and evaluation is commissioned precisely because the buyer cannot mark its own work, so independence is a structural requirement rather than a preference. Firms that designed or delivered the programme being evaluated are normally excluded, the declaration covers affiliates and named individuals, and the contract usually protects the evaluator's right to report findings the commissioner does not want. A tender that lacks that protection is worth reading twice before bidding.

The technical bid is an evaluation design, and it is judged on whether the design can actually support the claims the commissioner wants to make. Bidders set out the questions, the counterfactual or comparison strategy, sampling, instruments, analysis and the limits of what attribution the design permits. Baseline availability usually determines what is possible: where no baseline was collected, an honest bid says which questions become unanswerable rather than promising a retrospective one.

Third-party monitoring and verification is a distinct sub-market with different requirements. Here the supplier is confirming that reported activity actually happened -- deliveries made, works built, people trained -- often in places the commissioner cannot safely visit. That needs field teams, sampling protocols that resist manipulation, geotagged and timestamped evidence, and a chain of custody for data that would survive challenge. Security, access negotiation and duty of care for field staff are priced obligations, and the reporting cycle is usually frequent and fixed.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys monitoring evaluation in India?

GlobalGov holds 330 monitoring evaluation records from 89 distinct buying organisations in India. The most frequent publishers are Government Of India (WB Project) (167 records); Commissionerate For Welfare Of The Differently Abled. (14 records); World Bank -- Rights: Inclusion, Accessibility And Opportunities For Persons With Disabilities In Tamil Nadu (12 records); Indian Council Of Forestry Research And Education (9 records); Inland Waterways Authority Of India (6 records); Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 65% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

How long do bidders get to respond to monitoring evaluation tenders in India?

Across the 123 India monitoring evaluation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 21 days. A quarter of them allowed 14 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 32. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 22 (18%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are monitoring evaluation tenders published in India?

India published 23 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 26% fewer than the 31 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 85, spread across 114 separate months of activity since 22 February 2011. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 11 May 2026, 143 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does India compare with other monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, India ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 330 here). Within India itself, monitoring evaluation is the 14th largest of the 36 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the India monitoring evaluation records on this page come from?

These 330 records are collected from 2 official sources: GeM (311), the World Bank (19). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Most recent Monitoring Evaluation tenders in India

No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 330 records GlobalGov holds for it.

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