Expression of Interest

Market Analysis of the Agricultural Machinery and Spare Parts Manufacturing and Light Engineering Sectors in Bangladesh


iDE is an international NGO with over 30 years of experience in designing and delivering market-based anti-poverty programs in 11 countries. We are a world leader in making markets work for the poor as well as the longest established market development specialist NGO in Bangladesh. iDE believes that markets can be a powerful force for improving smallholder prosperity by creating income and livelihood opportunities for poor rural households.  

The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia – Mechanization and Irrigation project (CSISA-MI) is a partnership between CIMMYT and iDE-Bangladesh, funded by the USAID Mission in Bangladesh under the Feed the Future (FtF) Initiative. Working in Bangladesh’s Feed the Future (FtF) zone, the first phase of CSISA MI unlocked smallholder farmers’ access to cost- and resource-saving crop sowing, irrigation, and harvesting machinery. This was achieved by facilitating rural entrepreneurship and leveraging more than $6 million of private-sector investments, in an efficient mechanization value chain. The objective of Phase II of CSISA-MI is to “Enhance Agricultural Resiliency through Development of Agricultural Machinery Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s), and through Gender-inclusive Workforce Development, with a special focus on crisis-affected areas of Bangladesh” .

iDE Bangladesh is looking for a firm with demonstrated experience in undertaking market assessments and value chain analysis of the agricultural machinery and spare parts manufacturing and light engineering sectors in Bangladesh to provide an in-depth understanding on the current context (social as well as industrial) and future potential of SMEs. The assignment involves collaboratively engaging with the CSISA-MI team on designing the study methodology and survey tools; and then collecting data from diverse market level actors in the agricultural machinery light engineering, manufacturing, and spare parts industries. The consultant will lead the delivery of sector-wide situation analysis through understanding/identifying the existing landscape and constraints in the sector, focusing on the project targeted areas of Bogura, Jashore and Cox’s Bazar districts.

Please refer to the TOR (attached here) for more details.

Interested firms are asked to submit their technical and financial proposals to bangladesh.procurement@ideglobal.org.  Please write “Market Analysis for CSISA-MI project” in the subject line. The proposals should be submitted by 5 PM Bangladesh time on the 29th of June, 2019.

We are only able to consider electronic submissions. Only shortlisted firms will be contacted and invited for a technical discussion.