RFP For Impact Assessment Study - HSDM
RFP For Impact Assessment Study - HSDM
RFP For Impact Assessment Study - HSDM
FOR
SELECTION OF AGENCY FOR CONDUCTING
IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF SKILL
DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES FOR
SCHEDULED CASTE CANDIDATES IN THE
STATE OF HARYANA.
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Table of Contents
1. Background ....................................................................................................................................... 3
2. General Eligibility/Instructions ........................................................................................................ 4
3. Scope of Work ................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1 Methodology........................................................................................................................................ 6
4.1.1 Desk Review ..................................................................................................................................... 6
4.1.2 Quantitative Survey ......................................................................................................................... 6
4.1.3 Qualitative Survey ........................................................................................................................... 8
4.2 Analysis & Recommendations ............................................................................................................ 8
5. Project Steering Committee (PSC) ................................................................................................... 9
6. Nodal Officer for the Assignment ..................................................................................................... 9
7. Implementation Schedule ................................................................................................................. 9
8. Key Experts for Conducting the Study ...........................................................................................10
9. Evaluation Methodology ......................................................................................................................11
10. Instructions to Bidder(s) ....................................................................................................................14
11. Key Dates and Events ........................................................................................................................15
12. Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) .........................................................................................................15
13. Procedure for Submission of Bids .....................................................................................................15
14. Key Submissions/Document(s) Checklist ..........................................................................................16
15. Schedule of Payment ..........................................................................................................................16
16. Performance Bank Guarantee ...........................................................................................................17
17. Other Terms and Conditions .............................................................................................................17
18. Confidentiality of Information ..........................................................................................................18
FORMAT-1..............................................................................................................................................19
FORMAT-2..............................................................................................................................................21
FORMAT-3..............................................................................................................................................22
FORMAT- 4.............................................................................................................................................23
FORMAT-5..............................................................................................................................................24
FORMAT-6..............................................................................................................................................25
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1. Background
Haryana Skill Development Mission (HSDM) established in May 2015 by the State
Government aims to empower the youth in the State to take part in the economic and
overall growth of the state and the country at large. The vision of the Mission is “To
be a specialized agency to deliver quality skill training and professional knowledge to
the youth to enhance their employability and bridge the skill deficit with a view to
meet burgeoning market demand for skilled manpower".
Haryana Skill Development Mission (HSDM) has provided skill development training
to 8282 Scheduled Caste (SC) youths in last three years. HSDM is looking for support
from expert agencies to conduct an Impact Assessment of these trainings. Against this
background, HSDM invites RFP from reputed agencies with proven track record and
having a good understanding for conducting such Impact Assessment of the trainings.
Objectives of the Study
Specific objectives of study are as follows:
1. To assess the socio-economic context and challenges of skill development of
youth belonging to the Scheduled Caste category.
2. To assess the design and effectiveness of skill development programmes in
terms of mobilization of Scheduled Caste youths.
3. To assess the knowledge and skill enhancement of Scheduled Caste youths who
have attended the skill development programs.
4. To assess the market demand and employability of Scheduled Caste youths who
have attended the training.
5. To assess placement and post placement status of the Scheduled Caste youths
who have attended the training.
6. To assess the improvement and positive changes in life of youths who have
attended the training.
7. To understand the aspiration of the Scheduled Caste Youth in terms of expected
remuneration, job location facilities and other pays and perks after the training.
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8. To make recommendations for further improvement in design and
implementation of the skill development Programme specifically for youths
belonging to the Scheduled Caste category.
2. General Eligibility/Instructions
1. The agency should be a legal Indian Entity (Individual Proprietorship,
Partnership, Company, Society, and Trust) incorporated/ registered/
recognized, as the case may be under the respective applicable laws eligible to
enter into an agreement/contract with the Haryana Skill Development Mission
to undertake the work.
2. The agency must have the prior experience of conducting studies on Schedule
Castes and working for the socio-economic development of Schedule Castes
and other marginalized sections.
3. The agency should not be blacklisted by any of the Central/State government
departments/PSUs.
4. The agency / bidder may apply for carrying out the Impact Assessment Study
for all the Districts in the State of Haryana, however, an EMD amount of Rs.
50,000/- shall be submitted online.
5. Hand delivered application forms or application by post will not be accepted
in any case. Last date for submission of proposal -: 30th April’21.
6. Application and the supporting documents should be a complete document and
must be page numbered and each page duly be signed by authorized
representative.
7. An affidavit- cum- declaration needs to be provided to the effect that the entire
information submitted is correct.
8. A covering letter must be attached with the proposal.
9. Only technically suitable Bids will be considered for opening of Financial Bid.
The decision of short listing of Technical Bid by Haryana Skill Development
Mission will be final and binding on all.
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3. Scope of Work
The study will be carried out in the State of Haryana. Specific steps for delivering the
assignment would be as follows:
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4.1 Methodology
For the assessment, mix-method of quantitative and qualitative surveys is proposed.
The process of assessment should start with developing a 'Desk Review' by the study
team. This process will include detailed analysis of published literature, secondary
data and will provide a detail assessment around key study indicators. This will be
followed by 'Quantitative survey' of sample of trained youths. This survey will provide
quantitative information on assessment indicators. In parallel, a 'qualitative survey'
should be conducted. The qualitative survey will help in explaining the quantitative
results as well as will provide perspectives of different stakeholders. Based on the
analysis of these three processes, a 'Draft Report' should be prepared and should be
shared with HSDM for their feedback. By incorporating HSDM inputs, Final report
should be submitted.
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With a margin of error of 3 percent at confidence level of 95 percent and assuming
response distribution 50 percent, sample size for state level comes to 946 youths.
Therefore, it is proposed to cover 946 out of 8282 trained youths for the quantitative
survey.
The sample of 946 will be proportionately distributed in the districts as per the number
of youths trained in a district, the table below shows the distribution of sample:
S.No. District Name SC candidates Proportionate Sample
Trained Size proposed
1 Ambala 801 92
2 Bhiwani 227 26
3 Charkhi dadri 51 6
4 Faridabad 165 19
5 Fatehabad 289 33
6 Gurugram 291 33
7 Hisar 502 57
8 Jhajjar 307 35
9 Jind 318 36
10 Kaithal 197 23
11 Karnal 353 40
12 Kurukshetra 311 36
13 Mahendragarh 267 31
14 Nuh 181 21
15 Palwal 105 12
16 Panchkula 551 63
17 Panipat 346 40
18 Rewari 612 70
19 Rohtak 471 54
20 Sirsa 965 108
21 Sonepat 197 23
22 Yamunanagar 775 88
Total 8282 946
In every district, allocated sample of youths should be randomly selected from the
number of youths trained in the district.
In order to collect data, certain percentage of the total allocated sample may be
interviewed physically and certain percentage may be interviewed
telephonically/video conferencing. The percentage of physical interviews and
telephonically/video conferencing interviews shall be mutually decided. The key
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experts including the Research Analysts should interview a proportion of the total
samples to gain better understanding about the area of study including the perception
and aspiration of the schedule caste candidates.
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4. Changes required for training as per the industry expectations with respect to
infrastructure and training methodology.
5. Need for developing or upgrading available educational/training infrastructure
and other training inputs such as tools & equipment, curriculum,
teaching/training methodology etc. keeping in mind the futuristic skills
requirements.
6. Recommendation regarding skill development amongst the Scheduled caste
category based on their aspirations.
7. Analyze the entrepreneurial mind set of the target population and suggest policy
level measures which should be taken at the State Level.
8. Any other policy suggestion.
7. Implementation Schedule
The proposed Scope of Work is expected to be completed within 6 months period,
adhering to below mentioned implementation schedule which is also not necessarily
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limited to the following and further detailing may be done at the time of signing of
contract.
S.No. Activity Time-line Any deliverable
1 Signing of Agreement T1- Date of
signing of the
Agreement
2 Submission of Inception T1+30 Days Inception Report
Report- (Detailing out the
methodology, Sample size,
formats of the survey,
questionnaire and other relevant
research tools)
3. Submission of Draft Report- T1+ 119 Days Draft Report
(Including analysis of secondary
and primary data in line with
the scope of work as defined
above)
4. Submission of Final Report T1+179 Days Final Report
incorporating all the feedback
and suggestions given by
HSDM
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The Bidders should have an adequate number of professionals and support staff for
carrying out the assignment. The Bidder should allocate a team lead and a team of
researchers to the assignment with expertise in designing, planning, and executing
rigorous studies.
The CVs of following key professionals will be evaluated:
Key Expert No of Positions Qualification & Experience
Team Lead 1 Ph.D degree in Social Sciences / Economics /
Statistics / Public Policy or a related discipline.
And
Minimum 05 years of research experience
including Ph.D degree.
9. Evaluation Methodology
I. The evaluation for the submitted proposals will be carried out in two parts, i.e.
Technical Evaluation and Financial Evaluation.
II. Technical and Financial Bid will get weightages as under:
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candidates in the State of
Haryana
Evaluation Process:
The evaluation process shall comprise of the following stages:
Stage 1: Technical Evaluation comprising of Eligibility based on Technical
Bid and Presentation Evaluation
Bidders who meet the minimum qualification criteria laid down in the General
Eligibility Section of this document will be qualified and eligible for further bid
evaluation.
HSDM will evaluate qualified bidders on the basis of the Technical Bid submitted by
them. HSDM reserves the right to constitute any committee for evaluating the
proposals. The Bidders who qualify under the minimum eligibility criteria will be
asked to make a detailed presentation at HSDM Office or any other venue and be
scored on the parameters as outlined separately in this document.
Format for Technical Evaluation (i.e Eligibility based on Technical Bid and
Presentation):
Maximum
S.No. Evaluation Criteria Required Forms
Score
Desk- Verification
Past Experience of the
A 20
Agency/Organization
Past experience in the areas of Work Order from the
conducting study on scheduled Clients.
castes: ( Summarized as per
1. I. More than 3 relevant studies- 20 Format 6)
(20 marks)
II. 2-3 relevant studies ( 10
marks)
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III. 1 relevant study ( 5 marks)
HSDM may contact the previous
client of the agency/ies to ascertain
the quality of work done under the
previous assignment. Agency will
also showcase the previous work in
their presentation part. The
decision of HSDM for ascertaining
whether the past study is similar to
the current one will be final and
binding on all.
B RESOURCE ASSESMENT 50
C Presentation 30
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technical proposal including Vision
for conducting on the study and Past
Experiences in conducting studies on
Scheduled Castes
The financial Bids of only those bidders will be opened who have scored more than
70% marks in the Technical Evaluation.
Stage 2: Financial Evaluation
The Interested Bidders will have to submit their financial Bids online on e-tender
portal as per the prescribed format on the portal itself.
Stage 3: Quality cum Cost Based System (QCBS) Evaluation
QCBS Evaluation:
1. The Evaluation Methodology proposed to be adopted by Haryana Skill
Development Mission will be Quality cum Cost Based System (QCBS)
method of evaluation where Technical Evaluation Score will get a weightage
of 80% and Financial Bid Score a weightage of 20%.
2. The Marks scored in the Technical Evaluation will be added to the marks
obtained in the Financial Evaluation and a list of preferred bidders will be
obtained.
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b. The bidders are expected to examine all instructions, forms, terms, project
requirements and other information in the RFP documents. Failure to furnish
all information required by the RFP document or submission of a proposal not
substantially responsive to the RFP documents in every respect will be at the
bidder's risk and may result in rejection of the proposal.
c. In case of a successful bidder, if the bidder fails to sign the contract in
accordance with this RFP, next bidder with highest score will be considered.
S. No Information Details
1. RFP No. and Date HSDM/SCIS/03/2021-22/434
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modifications, revisions, interlineations, erasers or overwriting shall be valid only if
they are signed or initialed by the person signing the proposal.
The proposal should carry following documents as per Key submission
guidelines.
Tender(s) should be submitted up to the date and time as indicated in the Tender
Notice. The tender will be in two parts i.e. Technical Bid (Part `A’) and Financial Bid
(Part `B’).
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4. On submission and acceptance of Final 20%
Report
1. The agency will be raising an invoice after the submission of step wise
deliverables namely Inception Report, Draft Report and Final Report.
2. Payment shall be released within 10 days of invoice raised by the agency.
Refund of PG: The PG shall be refunded within three months from the date of
successful completion of the assignment (6th month)
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5. HSDM may seek for any other information from the interested bidder in the
form of documents, etc. if it deems appropriate for the purpose of Technical
Evaluation.
6. All costs and expenses incurred by the Bidder in any way with the development,
preparation and submission of bid including but limited to, the attendance at
meetings, discussions, demonstrations etc. and providing any additional
information required by the HSDM will be borne entirely and exclusively by
the Bidders to a maximum of three meetings. In case of additional meetings
HSDM will bear the cost on reimbursement basis.
7. HSDM reserves the right to suitably amend/ modify/ change any clause of this
document and issue a corrigendum to this effect. Interested Bidders may keep a
track of the corrigendum issued after the conduct of Pre- Bid Meeting.
8. HSDM may assign additional research work order with an increased sample of
similar marginalized section of the society such as women, vimukt jatis, artisan
crafts, BPL etc. on a pro-rata basis.
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FORMAT-1
(Covering Letter)
[On the letterhead of the organization]
To,
The Mission Director
Haryana Skill Development Mission
IP-2, Sector- 3, Panchkula
Sir,
Please find enclosed Copy of our Proposal in respect of the RFP issued by Haryana
Skill Development Mission dated____ for conducting the Impact Assessment study
for the Scheduled Caste candidates under the various skill development schemes of
Haryana Skill Development Mission.
Having examined the RFP document, we, the undersigned, offer to provide the
services as required and outlined in the RFP for “Conducting Impact Assessment
Study” for Haryana Skill development Mission We hereby confirm that:
1. Each page of the Technical and Financial Bid has been signed by the Authorized
Signatory.
2. We agree to abide by our offer for a period of 180 days from the date fixed for
opening of the Qualification Bid.
3. We have carefully read and understood the terms and conditions of the RFP and the
conditions of the contract applicable to the bid and we do hereby undertake to provide
services as per terms and conditions mentioned in the RFP.
4. EMD for an amount equal to Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand only) online on
etenders.hry.nic.in. Details are as below:
UTR Number ____________________
Bank Name ______________________
Date____________________________
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5. The information contained in this Bid or any part thereof, including its exhibits,
schedules, and other document(s) delivered or to be delivered to HSDM, is true,
accurate, and complete.
6. We acknowledge the right of HSDM to reject our Proposal without assigning any
reason or otherwise and hereby waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, our right to challenge the same on any account whatsoever.
7. We fulfill all the legal requirements and meet all the eligibility criteria laid down in
the RFP.
8. This Proposal is unconditional, and we hereby undertake to abide by the terms and
conditions of the RFP.
9. We have not directly or indirectly or through an agent engaged or indulged in any
corrupt practice, fraudulent practice, coercive practice, undesirable practice or
restrictive practice.
10. It is hereby confirmed that I/We are entitled to act on behalf of our
corporation/company/ firm/organization and empowered to sign this document as well
as such other documents, which may be required in this connection.
Yours Sincerely,
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FORMAT-2
(Self-Declaration for not being blacklisted by any State/ Central Govt. Deptt/ PSU)
(On Rs. 100 Non-Judicial Stamp Paper – Submit separate declaration)
[Date]
To,
Mission Director
Haryana Skill Development Mission
IP-2, Sector- 3, Panchkula
Yours faithfully,
Authorized Signatory
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FORMAT-3
(Self-Certificate for details of qualified Manpower/Employee)
[On the letterhead of the organization]
To,
The Mission Director
Haryana Skill Development Mission
IP-2, Sector- 3, Panchkula
Sir,
In response to the RFP No._____________dated __________ for quoting against the
RFP as an Authorized Representative(s) of
M/s.___________________________________________, I / We hereby
declare, as on date of submission of the proposal, have following are the details of
the staff who are proposed to be deployed under the assignment
A. Details of Staff engaged for the Impact Assessment
CVs may be enclosed.
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FORMAT- 4
AFFIDAVIT-CUM-DECLARATION
(On a Stamp paper of value Rs. 100/-)
(DEPONENT)
Verified at …….. on this --------- day of -------- that the contents given above in the
affidavit are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
(DEPONENT)
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FORMAT-5
(ORGANIZATION PROFILE)
[On the letterhead of the organization]
2 Type of Agency-Individual
Proprietorship, Partnership, Company,
Society, Trust
3 Name of Contact Person
Mobile
Tel. No.
Email
PAN No.
4 GST No
5 Date
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FORMAT-6
(DETAILS OF THE RELEVANT ASSIGNMENTS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BIDDER)
[On the letterhead of the organization]
Research Name:
Name of the Client:
Approx. Value of the Contract/Research:
Total number of staff-months of the Location & Address:
Assignment:
Start Date (Month/Year): Duration of Assignment (months):
Completion Date (Month/Year):
Narrative description of Project:
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FORMAT-7
(FORMAT FOR STRATEGY STATEMENT)
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FORMAT-8
(FORMAT FOR FINANCIAL BID)
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