Request for proposal for designing, implementing and facilitating of circular economy incubation program under the Ireme invest project preparation facility

Request for Proposals (RFP) for Consulting Services

Issue date: February 5th 2024

Proposal due date: February 25th 2024

Title: Request for proposal for designing, implementing and facilitating of circular economy incubation program under the ireme invest project preparation facility

To Whom It May Concern:

The Rwanda Green Fund is seeking proposals from a qualified Entrepreneur Support Organization to provide consulting services to 10 businesses in the Waste and Circular Economy cohort to be selected for Grant funding.

This program builds on an on-going cohort of 30 businesses in the waste and circular economy sector within sub sectors like Agricultural waste, Construction, Energy, e-waste, fashion and textile, manufacturing, mobility, and sustainable packaging alternatives. The program is part of the Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership that was signed by the Environmental Ministers of both countries.

The aim of this assignment is to offer continued technical assistance and business development services to up to ten (10) businesses / entrepreneurs by providing training on a more systemic approach in how they run their business, how to mature their business plan and include circularity in their daily operations, and come up with development plans in terms of the intended use of funds of the grants to be received by 10 businesses to carry out demonstration/scaling projects in waste management and / or circularity.

Proposal requirements

Organizations interested in providing this service must submit a proposal, including a breakdown of costs, which demonstrates the organizations’ capacity to provide:

Technical assistance, business development services/coaching and mentoring services to SMEs, entrepreneurs;
A continuation plan on pre-grant award readiness and define disbursement batches as per each of the 10 businesses’ needs in achieving the intended results.
Proposals must be accompanied by consulting rate (or rates), an estimated number of days to complete the listed tasks, estimated total cost of the engagement, resumes of key staff that will be assigned the project, a detailed description of the method used to perform the tasks outlined, and a list of three similar projects with references.

Proposal submission

If you are interested in providing this service, please submit your proposal here. If you decide to submit a proposal, it must be received no later than 5:00 p.m CAT February 25th 2024. Late submissions will NOT be accepted.

For more information about the call for proposal please refer to the CFP document.