TERMS OF REFERENCE
1.0 About AECF
AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a leading non-profit development organisation that supports innovative enterprises in the agribusiness and renewable energy sectors with the aim of reducing rural poverty, promoting resilient communities, and creating jobs.
We catalyze the private sector by surfacing and commercializing new ideas, business models, and technologies designed to increase agricultural productivity, improve farmer incomes, expand clean energy access, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve resilience to the effects of climate change. We finance high-risk businesses that struggle to access commercial funding; we are committed to working in frontier markets, fragile contexts, and high-risk economies where few mainstream financing institutions dare to go.
Over the course of 13 years, we have supported over 375 businesses in 26 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, impacted more than 30 million lives, and created over 27,000 direct jobs.
AECF is headquartered in Kenya with offices in Cote d’ Ivoire and Tanzania.
2.0 About the Africa Agribusiness Window (AAW) Programme
The Africa Agribusiness Window (AAW) is our flagship agribusiness programme. The programme was designed to identify and invest in innovative business ideas in Africa’s agricultural sector with the potential to increase productivity, employment, livelihood opportunities, and incomes amongst the poor in Africa, specifically focusing on women. The programme investees operate across a range of agricultural value chains and include a mango pulp exporter, a palm oil producer, an agricultural processing company, and a seed company.
3.0 Purpose and Objectives of the Assignment
The purpose of the assignment is to showcase the impact of the work from the investee funded under the programme. The investee is Hills Global Projects Ltd (Nigeria).
4.0 About the Investee
b) Hills Global Projects Limited
Hills Global Projects Limited (HGPL) is a Nigerian agribusiness development and farming company. The company runs a consulting operation, a project implementation business and a small grass cutter farm. AECF is supporting Hills Global Projects to scale up its grass-cutter farm, and engage smallholder out-grower farmers in producing sweet potato, which is processed into flour and chips and sold across Nigeria.
5.0 Scope of Work
For this assignment, you will be required to:
- Develop interview questions that will be used to conduct interviews with the AECF investee company’s staff and management as well as the company’s beneficiaries.
- Conduct video interviews of the AECF investee staff and management (mostly based in Lagos) that highlight prior growth challenges faced by the investees before AECF funding, growth steps taken and achieved, and position they are in today.
- Conduct video interviews of the investee’s beneficiaries (based in Ogun State) that highlight how the company has been able to transform the lives of local communities, smallholder farmers as well as women and youth.
- Capture b-roll or cut aways or supplementary footage of the business, its activities and work with beneficiaries. These cut aways should be action footage of the company’s operations, its staff interacting with customers, and beneficiaries going about their normal lives.
- Capture photographs that show the work of the investees, their operations and their impact in local communities.
- Capture photographs of beneficiaries ensuring that these are action shots with people going about their day-to-day activities.
6.0 Deliverables
The consultant will be required to deliver the following:
- Interview questions for at least two (2) investee officials and two (2) beneficiaries per investee company to be interviewed.
- Conduct at least two (2) video interviews of each investee’s company’s officials. The interviews should be no less than five (5) minutes each.
- Conduct at least two (2) video interviews of each investee’s company’s beneficiaries. The interviews should be no less than five (5) minutes each.
- Capture b-roll or supplementary footage of the business, its activities and work with beneficiaries. This footage should be well-framed and should be action footage.
- Capture at least thirty (30) photographs of each investee, with at least ten (10) being that of beneficiaries.
7.0 Guidelines for submission of products:
Footage to be captured – a guide.
- Record interviews of beneficiaries in different formats including long shot, medium shot and up-close. These interviews can be in English, Portuguese or vernacular language (provided they can be accurately translated).
- Record interviews of AECF investees providing insight into the support provided and how it transformed their companies.
- Capture footage that shows the investee companies core activities, including warehouse, factory, sales and marketing, interaction with customers etc.
- Capture footage of the wider community, showing how people live, where possible capture footage of the environment, infrastructure such as roads and the general terrain.
- Where possible, capture footage of investees (it is on-the-ground officials and support staff) going about their work.
Photos to be captured – a guide.
- Quality: AECF uses images for a variety of purposes, requiring that digital images be of sufficient quality – resolution – to ensure quality print, as well as web reproduction.
- High Resolution Images: Digital originals, images should be shot at the highest possible resolution that the camera permits. The minimum accepted resolution is 2000 x 3000 pixels or 6 megapixels with zero compression shot as a RAW file, or as a JPEG file format at compression rate no greater than ‘medium’ (never more than 30% of what is possible). Maximum compression causes too much quality loss when the image is re-opened by the recipient.
- Approval: Submit all digital images for AECF’s selection before final edits are undertaken
- Sequencing: Maintain images in the sequence in which they were shot, so the shoot logic can be easily traced
- Captioning: The photographs will be properly labelled/captioned (including topic, date and location and the name/identity of person in the case of portraits) for easy identification
- Copyright: Copyright solely belongs to AECF. All images (whether used for online or print purposes) will bear the consultant’s photo credit. The consultant may not use, reproduce, or otherwise disseminate photos without prior consent from AECF.
Areas to be considered.
- General Demeanour: The Consultant is expected to always maintain demeanour and behaviour consistent with highest ethical standards and as a representative of AECF.
- High Resolution Footage: The footage should be recorded at the highest possible resolution that the camera permits. The minimum accepted resolution is 720p, but full HD is best.
- B-Roll: All recorded and unedited footage needs to be handed over to AECF at the end of the assignment.
- Captioning: The footage will be properly labelled/captioned (including topic, date and location and the name/identity of person in case of interviews) for easy identification
- Copyright: Copyright solely belongs to AECF. The consultant may not use, reproduce, or otherwise disseminate footage or photos without prior consent from AECF.
- Deadlines: All video footage together with the photos should be submitted to AECF no later than 5 days after the field visit.
- Equipment: Consultant will be expected to use own Cameras and accessories, computer, and communication technologies (internet access/email etc.)
- Travel: Consultant will be expected to arrange for their own transport, accommodation, and meals to all video sites. These costs can be factored into the Consultant’s overall costs.
8.0 Qualifications and experience
- Professional experience with coverage of development projects, preferably in agribusiness, renewable energy, and climate change;
- Proven professional experience of at least five (5) years in the provision of photography and videography services for international organisations or media in the development context for mixed audiences;
- Ability to film and edit broadcast quality video and audio: HD 1920×1080 or better;
- Ability to capture and edit high quality imagery;
- Have knowledge of different video formats and video file conversions;
- Have knowledge of converting video files from multiple formats;
- Have online video publishing and file transfer skills;
9.0 Duration
This is a two-week contract from the date of signing.
10.0 Reporting
The Consultant will report to the Communications Manager with overall oversight from REACT Sector Team lead.
11.0 Proposal submission
Qualified consulting firms and /or individual consultants are invited to submit a proposal including the following requirements:
Documents to be submitted
FIRM
- Company registration
- Company profile and experience of the team
- Methodology to undertake the assignment
- Previous experience in similar assignments on communications content development
- Sample works relevant to the assignment
- A detailed financial budget (in USD ) and work plan.
- Reference letters
INDIVIDUAL
- Full CV with a list of previous similar work demonstrating experience in similar assignments on communications outputs.
- Methodology to undertake the assignment
- Sample works relevant to the assignment
- A detailed financial budget (in USD ) and work plan.
- Reference letters
- Identification documents
The technical and financial proposals will need to be submitted as separate documents
12.0 Pricing
The service provider’s payment shall be based on the financial proposal developed for this consultancy. Payment shall be made in one installment of 100% upon submission and acceptance of all outputs.
The AECF is obliged to withhold taxes on service contract fees as well as ensure 16% VAT, is charged where applicable. Applicants are advised to ensure that they have a clear understanding of their tax position with regards to provisions of relevant in-country tax legislation when developing their proposals.
13.0 Evaluation Criteria
An evaluation committee will be formed by the AECF and shall include employees. All members will be bound by the same standards of confidentiality. The consultant should ensure that they fully respond to all criteria to be comprehensively evaluated. The AECF may request and receive clarification from any consultant when evaluating a proposal.
The evaluation committee may invite some or all the consultants to appear before the committee to clarify their proposals. In such event, the evaluation committee may consider such clarifications in evaluating proposals. In deciding the final selection of qualified bidder, the technical quality of the proposal will be given a weighting of 70% based on the evaluation criteria. Only the financial proposal of those bidders who qualify technically will be opened. The financial proposal will be allocated a weighting of 30% and the proposals will be ranked in terms of total points scored.
The mandatory and desirable criteria against which proposals will be evaluated are identified in the table below.
NO.
CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT
Weighted Award
- TECHNICAL PROPOSAL
70
- An understanding of the terms of reference
Demonstrate understanding of the assignment and expected outcomes.
5
Methodology and delivery approach of undertaking the assignment in the provided timelines.
10
- Methodology and work-plan that will deliver the best value on the assignment
2.1
Demonstrate relevant experience to undertake the given assignment with a minimum of five years.
20
2.2
Demonstrate relevant services provided in the last three years with sample of work.
10
2.3
Provision of registration documentation and other relevant statutory document.
5
2.4
Geographical Reach: Demonstrate relevant geographical experience, knowledge and reach to effectively carry out the assignment.
5
- Qualification and Experience
Qualifications and competence of the key staff related to the study Bidders must provide descriptions and Documentation of staff/teams’ technical expertise, experience, and assignment to the task
15
- FINANCIAL PROPOSAL: Clarity, relevance, reality to market value/ value for money of cost for the assignment (inclusive of any applicable tax, reimbursables and travel).
30
Total Score
100
15.0 Disclaimer
The AECF reserves the right to determine the structure of the process, the number of short-listed participants, the right to withdraw from the proposal process, the right to change this timetable at any time without notice and reserves the right to withdraw this tender at any time, without prior notice and without liability to compensate and/or reimburse any party.
How to apply
14.0 Application
The AECF is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The AECF considers all interested candidates based on merit without regard to race, gender, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- AECF invites qualified consultants/firms to send a proposal to [email protected]clearly marked “CONSULTANCY – VIDEOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES, NIGERIA (AAW)” The AECF shall not be liable for not opening proposals that are submitted with a different subject.
- The proposal should be received no later than 6th October 2022, by 5.00 pm East Africa Time (GMT +3) addressed to The AECF, Procurement Department. All clarifications and or questions should be sent to [email protected].** Kindly note bids received will be evaluated on a rolling basis due to the urgency.
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