The Mining Qualifications Authority seeks a service provider to evaluate the effectiveness of its skills development interventions over the past five financial years (2020-2025). Bidders must provide five compliant client reference letters, qualified evaluation personnel, and a 24-month project plan. Closing date: 19 November 2026.
The Mining Qualifications Authority (MQA), a Schedule 3(a) public entity and SETA established under the Skills Development Act, is seeking a qualified service provider to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the interventions it has implemented over the five financial years from 2020 to 2025. The study is commissioned by the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Unit and aims to assess whether MQA programmes are effective, efficient, relevant, and sustainable. Key focus areas include the achievement of intended outputs and outcomes, value for money, alignment with strategic priorities, quality of service delivery, the functionality of the Theory of Change, and the overall impact of interventions. The service provider will document how implementation occurs in practice, compare actual implementation against planned implementation, identify what is and is not working, and recommend elements of successful interventions that could be upscaled.
The assignment requires a structured set of deliverables, including a Project Execution Plan (Inception Report), a policy literature review and theoretical framework, an evaluation design and methodology covering sampling, data collection, analysis, and ethical considerations, cleaned datasets and raw data in usable format, a draft analysis report subject to MQA review, a draft-report presentation, a final evaluation report with executive summary, a stakeholder presentation, and an advisory report. The engagement runs for a maximum of 24 months, starting on signature of the service provider contract, and reports directly to the Chief Risk Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. Pricing must be quoted in South African Rand, inclusive of VAT, and be all-inclusive with an itemised fee breakdown. Bids are evaluated in three phases: compliance, functionality (minimum score of 65/100), and pricing and specific goals on an 80/20 preference point system.
This tender is well suited to research and evaluation firms, monitoring and evaluation consultancies, and academic or policy research organisations with demonstrated experience evaluating SETA, public-sector, or government interventions and a sound grasp of skills development and the National Evaluation Policy Framework. Qualified B-BBEE-compliant firms, including those that are black-owned, woman-owned, youth-owned, or rural-based, may benefit from the specific goals preference. Bidders must be registered on the Central Supplier Database, hold a valid tax compliance status, and submit certified qualifications and CVs in the MQA template. A non-compulsory briefing session will be held on 5 November 2026 at 10:00.
Research and evaluation consultancies, monitoring and evaluation specialists, and academic or policy research institutions with proven experience evaluating SETA, public-sector, or government programmes, and qualified personnel (Policy Analysts, Lead Evaluators, Senior and Junior Evaluators) holding NQF level 8-9 qualifications in M&E, public policy, economics, statistics, or related fields. Firms must be CSD-registered, tax compliant, and able to provide five client reference letters. Black-owned, woman-owned, youth-owned, disabled-owned, and rural-based enterprises with valid B-BBEE certificates may benefit from additional preference points. Companies without evaluation experience in the public sector or skills development should consider partnering with specialist firms.
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