Provision of Sponsorship Platform for Freerice.com

Item Description:

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

The website freerice.com is a web-based trivia game with 600,000 users monthly. When players answer a question correctly in the game, a sponsor message is shown below the correct answer. This sponsored message supports Freerice and triggers a financial payment to the World Food Programme’s efforts in saving and changing lives worldwide.

Freerice exists to increase the visibility and awareness of WFP’s work through an engaging and educational game that teachers and students worldwide play. Sponsor messages that appear on the site must be high-quality, rigorously screened, and only used to support Freerice’s efforts in generating awareness of and funds for the work of the WFP.

World Food Programme is soliciting expressions of interest from qualified suppliers involved in the provision sponsorship platforms. The aim is to provide vetted, high-quality sponsors for the game as it is re-launched in 2019.

The successful sponsorship platform should offer the following features:

Key Features:

• Rigorous vetting of all sponsors and a reputation for high quality;
• Fine-grained content filtering and very specific quality control for all sponsors — at the platform level — without intervention from the end user beyond setting initial parameters;
• Real time reporting systems for any unacceptable sponsors that have made it through all existing vetting systems;
• Fast, modern javascript and mobile SDKs for easy integration; either with an ad server handled by the platform, or established compatibility with widely-used mobile ad server platforms
• A wide range of successful ad formats, including video and game-based ad formats and “rewarded formats” linked to in-game achievements with high CPMs;
• A reliable and modern inventory management platform for in-house campaigns and inventory space; or established links with widely-used mobile ad server platforms
• Full header bidding compatibility;
• Excellent reporting and analytics tools;
• Maximum number of worldwide ad exchanges in as many markets as possible;
• A competitive platform fee so as to ensure maximum revenue to WFP as a result of sponsorship;
• Full compliance with international best practices on ad safety & transparency (IATB, GDPR, and all COPPA-related restrictions).

Response

In order to participate in the pre-selection exercise, companies are required to provide the following:

• Confirmation of interest in being considered for the delivery of the above items;
• Company description and brief summary of experience in the required business (max 2 pages);
• No financial proposal is required at this stage.

Upon receipt of a positive response, WFP may proceed with the next steps to engage a vendor.

If your company is interested in partaking in this initiative, please provide the information requested to the following email address:

hq.tenders@wfp.org

Only companies that submit complete responses will be considered for the next phase of the process.

The deadline for response to this Expression of Interest is:

13 March 2019, 16:00 hrs CET (Rome Time Zone)

Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at hq.tenders@wfp.org.

HQ19NF024- EOI- Sponsorship Platform for Freerice.com.pdf