| Ministry/Division |
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Ministry of Post, Telecommunications & Information Technology |
| Agency |
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Information and Communication Technology Division |
| Procuring Entity Name |
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Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme |
| Procuring Entity Code |
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Not Used at Present |
| Procuring Entity District |
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Dhaka |
| Expression of Interest for Selection of |
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Individual Consultant (National) (Time-Based) |
| Title Of Service |
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Re-request for Expressions of Interest (National)
Selection of Individual Consultant for the Post of 1. Human Development Media Expert 2. R&D Specialist 3. Enterprise Integrator 4. Digital Centre Business Development Expert 5. National Portal Implementation Specialist 6. Social Safety Net Service Development Specialist (2) |
| EOI Ref. No. |
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56.83.0000.006.11.001.21.187 |
| Date |
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15/02/2022 |
KEY INFORMATION
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| Procurement Sub-Method |
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Selection of Individual Consultants (SIC) |
FUNDING INFORMATION
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| Budget and Source of Funds |
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Development Budget GOB |
| Development Partners |
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UNDP |
PARTICULAR INFORMATION
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| Project/Programme Name |
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Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme |
| EOI Closing Date and Time |
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01/03/2022 11.45 AM
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| Publication Date |
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16/02/2022
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INFORMATION FOR APPLICANT
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| Brief Description of Assignment |
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1. Human Development Media Expert ? Submit detailed business plan of HD Media and IPTV/OTT Platform with 5 years projection. ? Regular follow up and supervision with Legal Team to ensure formation of HD Media Company. ? Organize Stakeholders’ workshops to strategize business plan of HD Media. ? Create a portfolio of partnerships for HD Media for local and cross border through national and international partner organizations. ? Create IPTV policy guidelines for the development of the operation of IPTV/OTT Platform. ? Prepare strategy to create the maximum impact and brand HD Media. ? Strategize and develop a promotional plan, in collaboration with the team to ensure proper citizen-centric promotion. ? Strategize and develop strategy to develop communication plan for ministries and related Departments with the assistance of team members. 2. R&D Specialist • Submit a report on assessment and understanding of the present status of R&D throughout the country. • Develop proposals for funding based on the identified innovation strategy and established partnership for financial and technical support. • Develop guidelines on technological solutions with a focus on emerging technology • Submit a plan to connect governments’ R&D lab with iLab. • Promote, analyze and testing the usability and system integration of the Devices and other tools. • Involve local experts and engineering students to study and prototype development inside iLab for solving the local problems. • Design the innovation strategy of the iLab considering Internet of Things (IoT). • Ensure the development functional prototype of innovative ideas come from different competition. 3. Enterprise Integrator • Development of single sign on facilities for all government officials and service seekers to securely access service delivery platform with single credential. Integrate all of the relevant government systems/platform which provide citizen services. • Perform architecture development work and release standard documents and guidelines to ensure technology solutions compliance with the myGov architecture. • Create guideline and assist service providers to ensure software solutions deployment, database structuring and technology selection. • Develop community of technology and implementation resources to ensure sustainability of technology solutions. • Prepare architectural technical documentation and guide the solution provider in developing the same. • Ensure continuous update of technology and standards to address emerging security & system vulnerability threat and ensure sustainability of solution by utilization of emerging technologies. • Ensure steady progress of myGov along with its building blocks meet the principles. 4. Digital Centre Business Development Expert • Identify a services list of digital centres based potential revenue enhancement government and non-government services for the one stop service solution. • Establish a details business plan for MSME services in digital centres. • Prepare the training module and contents for digital centre entrepreneur’s capacity development for MSME support service. • Ensure establishment of one-stop service point for small business at Upazilla level. • Facilitate and conduct necessary training to enhance the digital centre’s entrepreneur’s capacity to provide services to MSME. • Ensure establishment of women agent network to provide services to rural and underserved women through digital center network. • Ensure capacity development of the women agent and one-stop service point entrepreneurs to ensure quality services to citizens. • Establish a strategic partnership and coordination with business association, MSME association, government and non-government agencies and individuals for a strong digital centre based MSME service network. • Coordinate with local administration, local government division and its officials for MSME business development in digital centres. • Achieve the number of targeted workshops, training programmes and other project assigned programmes and events by the time bound duration; • Prepare a comprehensive and regular report on the workshop, training implementation, lessons learned and experience in digital centre based MSME business hub and other fintech solutions establishment; • Prepare the necessary recommendations and presentation to the relevant ministries and key stakeholders to enhance the digital centre based MSME business network development 5. National Portal Implementation Specialist • Developed guidelines for implementing e-services. • Ensured the shifting of NPF (National Portal Framework) from information provider software to service provider software. • Facilitated the User Experience Testing (UAT) and ensured the incorporation of those requirements in the software. • Developed and implemented the Revenue Model for National Portal. • Developed dynamic monitoring dashboards for NPF. • Ensured the quality of services provided from central to local administrative level. • Developed ToR for software based on user’s requirements by considering local-global emerging technologies. • Ensured support service based on a well-defined SOP. • Developed mobile/e service applications based on NPF (National Portal Framework). • Integrated with MyGoV, EkSheba, e-nothi and other established national softwares. • Arranged training/workshops for the ministries and field offices for the efficient management of the portals. • Take proper initiative to migrate existing portal to new version portal on update technology 6. Social Safety Net Service Development Specialist (2) • Conducting Capacity development activities based on the related stakeholder as per requirement • Develop data validation mechanism for monitoring and proper implementation of SSN activities. • Develop online or offline training manual for SSN related stakeholder as requirement of a2i. • Identification of challenges for proper implementation and find out coordination gap among related agencies including finance ministry and Mobile financial service. • Develop strategic guidelines for smooth implementing and monitoring of SSN Services at national level • Conduct Case study for selected upazilla under SSN activities. • Develop a mechanism for knowledge management between G2P and P2G Payment system in SSN services. • Continuous coordination with finance division, Mobile financial Service (MFS) authority and DSS for payment data validation, reconciliation, integration and return issue. • Supervise and monitor the activities of SSN service development expert and team members. |
| Experience, Resources and Delivery Capacity Required |
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Detail mentioned in the Terms of Reference (ToR) which can be found on a2i website (HTTP://a2i.gov.bd) |
| Other Details (if applicable) |
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Aspire to Innovate Programme invites the interested eligible Applicants to indicate their interest in providing the services in accordance with the Terms of References (ToR) provided in RFA. This shall require confirmation through submission of CV and other documents described in the Request for Application (RFA). Expression of interest shall be submitted by 11:45 am (BST) on 20 February 2022 via email (recruitment@a2i.gov.bd) or hardcopy. Interested applicants required to submit their Expression of Interest in accordance with the application form (email or Hard Copy) which may be obtained (RFA) from the Aspire to Innovate Programme website: www.a2i.gov.bd or ICT Division website: https://ictd.gov.bd Applicants may also obtain RFA document through email. Please send your request to: recruitment@a2i.gov.bd. Those who are to submit hard copy, a box will be kept in 6th Floor of IDB Bhaban, a2i Office, Agargaon Dhaka to submit application & necessary documents. Please bring NID/SMART card for entry at IDB Bhaban. Consultant will be selected following PPA-2006 and PPR-2008. It is expected that the services will commence from April 2022. For query, please contact: Mohammad Arifur Rahman, HR Associate Address: Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme, 6th Floor, IDB Bhaban Building, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh Telephone No.: 9144848 Ext. 132, Mobile no. +88 01841030208 |
| 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 |
| 56.83.0000.006.11.001.21.187 |
Single |
Dhaka |
April 2022 |
April 2023 |
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PROCURING ENTITY DETAILS
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| Name of Official Inviting EOI |
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Dr. Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir |
| Designation of Official Inviting EOI |
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Project Director (Joint Secretary) , Aspire to Innovate Programme. |
| Address of Official Inviting EOI |
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Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Division ICT Tower, E-14/X, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207 |
| Contact details of Official Inviting EOI |
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Phone : 880255006931-34, Fax : 88 02 55006936, Email : dewan.kabir@a2i.gov.bd |
| The procuring entity reserves the right to accept or reject all tenders |
