MassCEC anticipates the Contractor will conduct several tasks associated with the evaluation. • Task 1. Project Administration and Meetings. The Contractor will be responsible for working with the MassCEC project team to coordinate and schedule meetings including the project kickoff meeting and regular check-in meetings (such as weekly or bi-weekly, but to be determined at project kick-off meeting and adjusted throughout the timeframe of the evaluation as needed), take meeting minutes, and track and report progress on project implementation. Anticipated deliverables include, o Meeting agendas sent the working day prior to check-in meetings. o Brief meeting minutes including description of follow-on tasks and owner of each task. o Monthly status report including a progress tracking mechanism (to be submitted with monthly invoice). o Any other ad-hoc project administration tasks as agreed upon by MassCEC and the Contractor. • Task 2. Program Evaluation Plan. The plan should include a final set of evaluation questions, proposed metrics, data sources, data collection approaches – including any proposed data collection efforts (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups, etc.) and associated targets (i.e., names of interviewees, organizations etc.), data management approach (including quality assurance processes), data analysis and interpretation plan, anticipated products from the evaluation, and finally the proposed evaluation timeline.1 Anticipated deliverables include, o Draft Evaluation Plan, inclusive of draft data collection instruments (e.g., interview guide, survey instrument, etc.)...
