Call for tenders
April 20, 2009National Surveys of Parents of elementary school children
in South East European Countries- Download the full tender (TOR for survey agencies; and sampling plan) -
Center for Educational Policy Studies (CEPS), Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana in cooperation with Open Society Institute Education Support Program (OSI ESP) invites tenders to carry out face-to-face surveys of representative samples of parents of elementary school children in the South East European region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia).
Tenders should be submitted in English to ceps@pef.uni-lj.si (and cc to steve@promente.org) by e.g. 30.04.09 and should include the following:
1. Which countries can be covered. Preference will be given to tenders which cover most or all of the countries listed above, 1 point per country
2. Details of suggested sampling strategies (see below), 10 points
3. Short list of most relevant recent references, 5 points
4. Brief references / CV of the person to be responsible for quality control for this
survey at the agency, 5 points
5. Description of quality control procedures. What opportunities does the agency suggest for CEPS to independently check these procedures?, 5 points
6. Estimate of timeframe, 5 points
7. Any comments on this TOR and the sampling and survey design considerations, including the agency's assessment of possible risks and problems, 5 points
8. Other advantages or facilities offered by the agency, up to 10 points
9. SEPARATE price estimate with cost breakdown by country and by any other relevant parameters which affect cost (for example number of closed and open questions; whether open questions are to be coded by the agency; whether open questions are to be translated into English by the agency).
Selection criteria
Points will be awarded as above to the tenders on each of the above 8 criteria. Only for those tenders reaching a specified minimum score will the price estimate (point 9) be taken into consideration.
- Download the full tender (TOR for survey agencies; and sampling plan) -
