Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in Kenya

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 Kenya?

GlobalGov holds 628 monitoring evaluation records from 183 distinct buying organisations in Kenya. The most frequent publishers are Kenya Electricity Generating Company (29 records); National Construction Authority (29 records); ICT Authority (23 records); Kenya National Highway Authority (21 records); National Aids Control Council (14 records); Teachers Service Commission (14 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 21% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

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

Across the 237 Kenya monitoring evaluation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 13 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 16. 130 of them (55%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are monitoring evaluation tenders published in Kenya?

Kenya publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 45 in the last twelve months. That is 58% fewer than the 106 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 322, spread across 91 separate months of activity since 9 August 2018. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 14 April 2026, 170 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does Kenya compare with other monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, Kenya ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 628 here). Within Kenya itself, monitoring evaluation is the 31st largest of the 83 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 628 records are collected from 3 official sources: the Kenya PPRA (619), the World Bank (8), UN Global Marketplace (1). 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 Kenya

None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical monitoring evaluation notice in Kenya is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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