Vacancy: RFQ, Consultant/Consultancy (Implementation of a 2-way text message intervention)

Company Profile

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering, and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor.

Job Description

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION (RFQ), IMPLEMENTATION OF A 2-WAY TEXT MESSAGE INTERVENTION 

IPA Ghana is requesting for quotes with reference to the setup of an Implementation of a 2-way text message intervention as specified in the table below:

IPA is planning to send two-way messages to people about covid-19. The questions have response options (yes or no) that would be sent to respondents and they reply by selecting an option from the list supplied. This triggers a follow-up response [based on the option selected], which are captured automatically. This activity involves:

1. Initial enrolment message to as many people as needed to get opt-in response from 16,000 (i.e., opt-in to receive COVID messages from IPA. The service provider must use its own generated RDDs (randomly generated dialing) to get the numbers for this enrolment.


2. Sending 3 messages per week, for 4 weeks, to 20,000 people (i.e. the 16000 from above plus 4000 sample that IPA will provide). The 20,000 individuals are randomly assigned to one of two groups. The total number of unique characters is 160 with about 824,000 text messages assuming only 30% of the people reply to our quiz questions. Further assumptions about the text message is given below.