UN Capital Development Fund is soliciting request for proposal (RFP) to support its SHIFT in Bangladesh programme in its mandate to promote the uptake of innovative products and sustainable business models in Digital/Mobile Financial Services (DFS/MFS) in Bangladesh. As part of the MM component, one of the key activities is to build number of user cases and outreach of digital innovations at the micro merchant level.

The focus of this RFP is on implementing a business model that digitizes financial transaction in merchant supply chain, entailing: Digital Payment Gateway, with an associated bank account and/or digital wallet, that enables digital transaction between consumer and micro-merchant (MM) and between micro-merchant and distributor/whole seller/regional FMCG Companies.

In addition, the business model shall provide access to formal credit opportunities for MM preferably through alternative credit scoring exploring micro-merchant business transaction including but not limited to mobile usage data, existing bi-lateral business transactions that include top-up sold, SIM sold and other digital services sold data those are stored in digital format in addition to that digital payment history of micro-merchants. Therefore, it is envisaged that the payment gateway will be tagged with the bank account of the merchant and will allow the merchant to receive payment digitally from customer and also pay its’ supplier via payment gateway either using QR code, NFC enabled system, online transaction (RTGS)or other POS system9 etc. The geographical focus of the implementation must include at least two of the four target districts (one from Sherpur and Jamalpur; and the other from Tangail and Sirajganj).

The links for advertisement of the ‘RFP-BD-2018-010-Hiring Firm for UNCDF for Implementing Business Model That Digitizes Financial Transaction in Merchant Supply Chain.’

UNGM: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/73394

UNDP Procurement Notice: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=47319

The RFP has been re-advertised with a deadline of 10^th July 2018.