The United Nations World Food Programme intends to identify qualified service providers (including but not limited to financial service providers, payment providers and mobile service providers) which are able to provide the program with a comprehensive product for cash-based transfers to fulfil beneficiary’s needs in diverse contexts globally,
considering that the organization operates in contexts with limited infrastructure and connectivity.

The U.N. program is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, it feeds more than 90 million people and it is present in 81 countries.  The program uses food and/or cash-based assistance to address the needs of affected population. In 2014, the program transferred cash or vouchers to almost 9 million people in 58 countries, continuing the upward trend of market-based approaches within its operations.

The U.N. seeks a product that should facilitate easy, secure and electronically traceable cash services and should follow the program's guiding solution principles: beneficiary centricity, cost efficiency, scalability, security, realisation speed, validity, flexibility, transparency and auditing acceptability. Moreover an improved delivery solution should
enable WFP beneficiaries to access their benefits within walking distance from their homes in a secure and efficient manner.

The U.N. invites interested potential service providers to express their interest by completing the Request of Information downloadable with additional information from the following link: https://www.wfp.org/RFI and return it not later than 5th June 2015, 17:00 hours (Rome time). The received completed questionnaires will be used to pre-qualify potential service providers who will later be invited to participate in a competitive bidding exercise, should one be issued.