Provision of Consultancy Services to Support the EIB Group’s Evaluation Division: Message Driven Report Writing (Content Planning and Editing Services)

Item Description:

The European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group) consists of the European Investment Bank (EIB or “the Bank”) and the European Investment Fund (EIF).

The EIB is the financing institution of the European Union (EU). Created by the Treaty of Rome, its shareholders are the Member States of the EU, and its Board of Governors is composed of the Finance Ministers of these States. The EIB enjoys its own legal personality and financial autonomy within the Community system.

The mission of the EIB is to contribute, by financing sound investment, to the policy objectives of the EU, as laid down in its statutes and in decisions of the European Council.

The EIB contributes towards the integration, balanced development and economic and social cohesion of the Members of the EU. To this end, it raises on the markets substantial volumes of funds that aim at financing capital projects according to the objectives of the EU with the most favourable financial terms. Outside the EU the EIB implements the financial components of agreements concluded under European development aid and cooperation policies.

The EIF is the Group’s specialist provider of risk finance to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. Its shareholders are the EIB, the European Commission and a wide range of public and private financial institutions.

The EIF’s central mission is to support Europe’s SMEs by helping them to access finance. The EIF designs and develops venture capital and guarantees instruments which specifically target this market segment. In this role, the EIF fosters EU objectives in support of innovation, research and development, entrepreneurship, growth, and employment. With investments in over 400 funds, the EIF is a leading player in European venture capital due to the scale and the scope of its investments, especially in high-tech and early-stage segments.

More information can be obtained on the sites http://www.eib.org and http://www.eif.org.

For the purposes of this call for tenders, the EIB Group is represented by the EIB

Brief description of the required services

The Operations Evaluation Division of the European Investment Bank (IG/EV) carries out independent evaluations of the EIB Group’s activities with a twofold objective: accountability and learning.

IG/EV traditionally undertakes thematic evaluations, covering selected EIB Group priorities, sectors and/or products. As part of its work programme for the coming years, EV intends to diversify its evaluation products, by also undertaking: synthesis of projects evaluations covering specific topics; counterfactual analyses (so-called “impact evaluations”); corporate evaluations (focussing on processes and organisational aspects) and; reviews (including systematic reviews, stocktaking exercises, rapid evidence reviews, benchmarking exercises).

IG/EV aims to conclude a multiple framework agreement with minimum 2 (two) and maximum 6 (six) Service Providers that can provide services dedicated to planning the content and ensuring the editing of the evaluation reports it produces.

IG/EV’s current communication products include full evaluation reports, and briefing notes. Such reports are published on the external website of the EIB https://www.eib.org/en/infocentre/publications/all/ex-post-evaluations/index.htm and are aimed at a broad audience ranging from policymakers, public and private finance institutions, final beneficiaries, NGOs, academia and the interested public.

Detailed tasks for individual assignments under the Framework Agreement will be described in individual future Assignment Terms of Reference (ATORs), if and when these are needed and awarded by way of reopening of competition.

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