| Ministry/Division |
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Ministry of Post, Telecommunications & Information Technology |
| Agency |
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Bangladesh computer Council (BCC) |
| Procuring Entity Name |
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Executive Director, Bangladesh Computer Council |
| Procuring Entity Code |
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3039 |
| Procuring Entity District |
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Dhaka |
| Expression of Interest for Selection of |
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Consulting Firm (National) (Lump-Sump) |
| Title Of Service |
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Bangla Syntactic Treebank Corpus with Processing Pipeline and Distribution Platform (SD 07) |
| EOI Ref. No. |
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56.01.0000.029.32.29.17-334 |
| Date |
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30/06/2019 |
KEY INFORMATION
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| Procurement Sub-Method |
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Quality and Cost Based Selection(QCBS) |
FUNDING INFORMATION
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| Budget and Source of Funds |
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Development Budget GOB |
| Development Partners |
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None |
PARTICULAR INFORMATION
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| Project/Programme Name |
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Enhancement of Bangla Language in ICT through Research & Development Project |
| EOI Closing Date and Time |
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14/07/2019 01: 00PM
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| Publication Date |
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30/06/2019
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INFORMATION FOR APPLICANT
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| Brief Description of Assignment |
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The following points describe the scope of Development of‘Bangla Syntactic Treebank Corpus with Processing Pipeline and Distribution Platform’ in brief:
1.The Bangla language corpus must be annotated electronic text withSyntactic Treebank features.
2. The corpus must be representativebalanced and cover all necessary all domains with rich metadata. Also, the corpus should support Zipf’s Law and should have acceptable TTR.
3. The size of the annotatedcorpus must beat least 10M gold standard and 90M silver standard,
4. the corpus must maintain the annotation pipeline including Tokenization, NER, PoS tagging, lemmatization, dependency parsing, Phrase detection, Coreference resolutionfeaturesetc.
5. Should have some text analystics features including word/phrase frequency, wordlists, N-grams, Concordance, KWIC, Collocation etc.
6.The vendor should provide a powerful web based corpus collection andprocessing pipeline withdistribution platform including some modules like: a.Crowd-sourcing, Crawling b. Data cleaner, tokenizer, Lemmatizer, Parser, Chunker, PoS tagger, NER engine, Semantic tagger, Wordnet c. Corpus distribution web platform with API, admin panel to manage corpus platform.
7.The web based corpus distribution platformshould have capability to read, view, use, search, filter, sort, arrange, export, import, store and analyze the text, image and speech data.
8. The vendor must develop some Word embedding models using atleast 10M tokento makethe Bangla corpus as real-word dataset including: Count Vectors, TF-IDF, Co-Occurrence Matrix, CBOW, Skip-Gram, Word2vec, ELMo embedding, BERT embedding etc
9.The product in different phases of the software development will be tested by the team of nominated consultants.The firm must follow a well-defined software development process to meet the SQA (Software Quality Assurance) Criteria specified by the nominated consultants.
10.All the firms should solve the intellectual property issues.
11.The firm must have to maintain the specified Standard which will be determined by the Procuring Entity and details will be given at RFP.
All the documents including the source code and test script will have to be provided to the Project Authority for further maintenance and extensibility of the Component/ Software.
12.All deliverables of the component will be government properpty as per PPR and PPA. No secondor third party branding and ownership is allowed. The developed products convey logos and links of ICt division, BCC and Project only.
EBLICT Project now invites eligible firms to indicate the interest for providing the services. Interested firms are invited to provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services as mentioned in the serial number 17: Experience, Resources and Delivery Capacity Required. This will require substantiation through submission of brochures and other documents describing similar assignments, experiences, availability of appropriate professional qualifications and experiences among applicant’s staffs, resources to carry out the assignment, financial capability, etc. A firm may associate with other firm to fulfill their qualifications.
A shortlist of firms will be prepared upon evaluation of EOIs of the eligible firms and “Request for Proposal” documents will be issued in their favor. A firm will be selected using the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method. It is expected that the services will commence on Octobter, 2019..
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| Experience, Resources and Delivery Capacity Required |
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This is a national project with utmost importance towards achieving the Vision 2021: Digital Bangladesh. The firms must prove that they have solid technical background and operational strength to undertake and move this work forward without any hindrances. The firms must also have adequate technical ability, resources, and processes. As such, following are defined as minimum eligibility criteria:
1. The firm must have minimum 5years experience in Bangladesh about software and services;
2. The firm must have practical experience of developing NLP based Software/ Linguistics Big Data Processing (Text, image, Signal) Processing Software/ Linguistics software.
3. The firm having experience in annotatedcorpus development will be added an advantage.
4. The firm must have fulltime sufficient system architect, software developers, language Technology Specialist and Bangla Language Specialist (in high, medium and low levels) having experiences in developing high quality applications.
5. The firm must have the sufficient amount of liquid assets, i.e., working capital or credit line(s) supported by competent documents;
6. The firm must have update-audit-report of previous 5 years. The firm must have submitted yearly turnover report/documents;
7. The firm should have valid up to date trade license, income tax and VAT certificates;
8. JVCA is allowed as per PPA-2006& PPR-2008; But all the firms must be Bangladeshi firm.
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| Other Details (if applicable) |
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The REOI would be reviewed on the basis of the following:
1. Experience of the firm(s) in NLP/ Annotated Corpus development.
2. CV of Key professionals
3. Turnover of the Consulting firm
4. Other submitted document of the firm
5. History of litigation (if any) in courts or any arbitrations proceedings.
Interested firms shall obtain further information from the Project Office from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM in any working day before the closing date. Firms shall have to submit 2(Two) copies of EOIs and forwarding letter in a sealed envelope labeled with “EOI for Development of Bangla Syntactic Treebank Corpus with Processing Pipeline and Distribution Platform” to the following address.
More information on this project can be obtainedfrom http://www.bcc.gov.bd/
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| Association with foreign firms is |
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Not Applicable |
| Eoi Detail Information |
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| Ref No |
Phasing Of Services |
Location |
Start Date |
Completion Date |
| 56.01.0000.029.32.29.17-334 |
NA |
Dhaka |
October 2019 |
April 2021 |
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PROCURING ENTITY DETAILS
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| Name of Official Inviting EOI |
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Mohammad Rashed wasif |
| Designation of Official Inviting EOI |
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Project Director (In-charge), Enhancement of Bangla Language in ICT through Research & Development Project |
| Address of Official Inviting EOI |
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8th Floor, ICT Tower, E-14/X, Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207 |
| Contact details of Official Inviting EOI |
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Phone : 55006841, Fax : 912462, Email : pdeblict@bcc.gov.bd |
Advertisement Corrigendum(s) |
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Date Of Corrigendum |
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02/07/2019 |
| Brief Description |
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Corrigendum Notice
The Following amendment has been made on Re-EoI Ref. No. 56.01.0000.029.32.29.17-334; Issued on 30.06.2019 for ‘Bangla Syntactic Treebank Corpus with Processing Pipeline and Distribution Platform (SD 07)’ which will be the integral part of Re-EoI.
Sl No: 15
Re-EoI Ref. No: 56.01.0000.029.32.29.17-334
Written As: EoI Closing Date & Time: 14 July, 2017, 01:00 PM
To be Amended As: EoI Closing Date & Time: 14 July, 2019, 01:00 PM
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| Last Date Of Submission |
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14/07/2019 |
| Last Time Of Submission |
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01:00 PM |
| Status |
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Active |
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| The procuring entity reserves the right to accept or reject all tenders |
