Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in Zambia

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 Zambia?

GlobalGov holds 58 monitoring evaluation records from 21 distinct buying organisations in Zambia. The most frequent publishers are Water (7 records); Parks and Recreation (6 records); Environmental Services (5 records); Transportation (5 records); World Bank -- Girls' Education And Women's Empowerment And Livelihoods For Human Capital Project (5 records); Emergency Management (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 55% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

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

Across the 13 Zambia monitoring evaluation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 37 days. A quarter of them allowed 29 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 192. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 2 (15%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are monitoring evaluation tenders published in Zambia?

Zambia published 4 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 10, spread across 37 separate months of activity since 14 July 2015. October is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 4 May 2026, 150 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does Zambia compare with other monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, Zambia ranks 13th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 58 here). Within Zambia itself, monitoring evaluation is the 19th largest of the 21 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 58 records are collected from 3 official sources: Zambia Zppa (48), the World Bank (7), UN Global Marketplace (3). 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 Zambia

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 Zambia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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