Freelance Writing and Research

Some government funded progects stipulate that towards the end of the project the project manager should use a stated amount of money to fund an evaluation of the project with possible recommended strategies for when the project funding ends. As a rule the project manager would put together a document which outlined what they wanted evaluated and often by what means - this document would then be put into the public domain so that interested parties could bid for the owrk.

Yesterday I attended a meeting with some clients who needed to have an evaluation carried out but they had no idea how such a document was put together. So we did some brainstorming and identified some issues and possible means of evaluation which gave them the basis for their document - once that is done then  my colleagues and I will be invited to bid for it. What this meeting demonstrated was that not all project managers know what is needed for an evaluation nor how that should be used to put the evalusation up for tender. The next post is a short white paper on what such a document might contain - the company and process used are purely fictitious.