MRB-55876 - Uganda - Business Development Services - Deadline August 5,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide business development services.         – To strengthen the investment readiness, competitiveness, and growth potential of tourism enterprises by providing tailored business advisory services, facilitating access to finance, and promoting the adoption of digital solutions, sustainable business practices, and gender–responsive approaches. – Providers to deliver investment readiness and post–investment advisory support to nature–based tourism Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.• Conducting outreach and mobilization of eligible nature–based tourism agency across the targeted tourism circuits.• Undertaking business diagnostics and investment readiness assessments to identify enterprise–specific capacity gaps.• Delivering tailored pre–investment Business Development Services, including training, coaching, business plan development, financial projections, and preparation of investment proposals.• Facilitating linkages between investment–ready agency and financial institutions to improve access to finance.• Providing post–investment advisory services to enterprises that successfully secure financing to strengthen business performance, financial management, sustainability, and growth.• Integrating digitalization, environmental sustainability, and gender–responsive approaches throughout program implementation.• Monitoring enterprise progress, collecting and reporting performance data, and documenting lessons learned and program results.(2) A pre–bid conference will be held on July 21, 2026.