Invitation for Request for Expressions of Interest    Status:Approved

GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

Ministry/Division : Ministry of Post, Telecommunications & Information Technology
Agency : Information and Communication Technology Division
Procuring Entity Name : Aspire to Innovate Programme (a2i)
Procuring Entity Code :
Procuring Entity District : Dhaka
Expression of Interest for Selection of : Consulting Firm (National)  (Lump-Sump)
Title Of Service : Hiring a Firm for Solution Development (Enhancement and Maintenance of National Portal)
EOI Ref. No. : 56.42.0000.006.07.025.20. 459
Date : 13/09/2020

KEY INFORMATION

Procurement Sub-Method : Quality and Cost Based Selection(QCBS)

FUNDING INFORMATION

Budget and Source of Funds : Development Budget Grant/Credit
Development Partners : UNDP

PARTICULAR INFORMATION

Project/Programme Name : Aspire to Innovate Programme
EOI Closing Date and Time : 30/09/2020 02:00 PM
Publication Date : 15/09/2020

INFORMATION FOR APPLICANT

Brief Description of Assignment : Details are provided in Terms of Reference (TOR). For Terms of Reference (TOR) Please visit: https://a2i.gov.bd/tenders/ or contact: Nahid Nazim (Mobile No. 01817641113).
Experience, Resources and Delivery Capacity Required : This is a national project with utmost importance towards the digital Bangladesh goal so the bidder must prove that they have solid technical background and operational strength to undertake and take this work forward without any hindrances. Bidder must also have adequate technical ability, resources, human resources and processes. As such, following are defined as minimum eligibility criteria: 1. The vendor needs to have experience of working with e-governance projects as well as understanding the government systems and integrating individual projects as a central system in last 5 years. (Please provide work completion certificate) 2. Experience in running large-scale citizen access centric solution for service delivery and office management, public Workflow Management etc. in last 5 years. (Please provide work completion certificate) 3. Experiences on the system management with more than 5000+ Users or big data in last 5 years (Please provide work completion certificate) 4. Minimum 5 years of experience in ICT business as a registered company/entity in Bangladesh. 5. Must have valid and up to date Trade license/ Register of joint stock & companies (RJSC) registration (if applicable), TIN certificate, VAT Identification Number, Updated Income Tax Payment Certificate (2018-19). 6. Last 3 years audited financial report. 7. Average annual turnover is minimum BDT 1 Crore in last 3 years. 8. Net working capital/ liquid asset needs to be minimum amount of BDT 60 lac. 9. Documents demonstrating the management and operational capacity of the firm (Brochures, Company Profile and other documents describing company expertise, strength and experience, core functions, products and services, similar assignments or project experience, Trainings and Human Resource strength (Project Manager, Database Administrator, Senior Developer / Programmer, Developer, Technical Document Expert, QA Expert, Training Expert, Infrastructure Expert, Sr. Software Engineer (On Premises), Support Manager, Senior Support Engineer, Support Engineer of the organization). 10. Multiple Companies having technical and legal competency for developing such Product can bid jointly but they must have legal agreement among them where one company needs to be lead. Lead company needs to fulfill all conditions mentioned in this ToR. Joint-venture agreement needs to have clear identification about each responsibility matrix along with IPR. Aspire to Innovate Programme now invites eligible Applicants/ firms to indicate the interest in providing the services. Interested Consultants/firms are invited to provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services. A shortlist of consultants will be prepared upon evaluation of EoIs of the eligible applicants and “Request for Proposal” document will be issued in their favor. Total duration of the contract is 24 (Twenty-four) months. Interested Applicants may obtain further information on the requirements including the criteria of short listing by applying to the address below/e-mailing tender@a2i.gov.bd contacting Phone: 88 02 8159896, 9144848 Ext. 146, Mobile no. +88 01817641113, during normal office hours up to 29/09/2020.
Other Details (if applicable) : N/A
Association with foreign firms is : Not Encouraged
Eoi Detail Information
Ref No Phasing Of Services Location Start Date Completion Date
56.42.0000.006.07.025.20. 459 Single Bangladesh December 2020 November 2022

PROCURING ENTITY DETAILS

Name of Official Inviting EOI : Dr. Md. Abdul Mannan, PAA
Designation of Official Inviting EOI : Project Director (Additional Secretary), Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme.
Address of Official Inviting EOI : Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Division ICT Tower, E-14/X, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207
Contact details of Official Inviting EOI : Phone : 88 02 55006931-34 (Ext 102), Fax : 88 02 55006936, Email : mannan@a2i.gov.bd
The procuring entity reserves the right to accept or reject all tenders