Consultancy Services to Establish Electronic Tender - 13176455

Procurement Summary

Country: Somalia

Summary: Consultancy Services to Establish Electronic Library in Selected Public Institution for Higher Education

Deadline: 16 May 2017

Posting Date: 18 May 2017

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 13176455

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Competition: ICB

Financier: Other Funding Agencies

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Tender Value: Refer Document

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79410000 - Business and management consultancy services

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Tenders are invited for Consultancy Services to Establish Electronic Library in Selected Public Institution for Higher Education in Somaliland.
Horumarinta Elmiga II (“Education for Empowerment through Cohesive and Harmonised System”) is three years education programme, currently being implemented through a consortium of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Save the Children and CARE. This action will seek to achieve the following overall objective: “Education and training efficiently and effectively contributing to poverty alleviation within a peaceful, secure and democratic Somaliland” with the following specific objective: “Education and training services, responsive to the priorities, needs and requirements of the population of Somaliland, efficiently and equitably delivered”.
Operationally, the overall and specific objectives have been divided in three sub-sectors represented by expected results as follows:
Expected Result 1 (R1): Increased access to inclusive, equitable and quality education for the children and young people in Somaliland.

Expected Result 2 (R2): Increased participation of youth and adults in Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

Expected Result 3 (R3): Capacity of education institutions, administrations and systems as well as higher education institutions strengthened.

The consortium is committed to supporting the Ministry of Education & Higher Studies (MOE&HS) in leading in the development and design of strategies, project decisions making processes, as well as being directly involved in the implementation of the project at all levels. This will create sector wide engagement and support at different levels of the system. In line with a SWAp, this will be viewed as a capacity building engagement in its own right (achieved through R3).
Purpose of the Assignment
Over the last five years, Somaliland public institution of higher education made a noticeable progress towards accessing the growing quantities of information resources now available in the form of electronic format. Through observation made to these public institutions by NRC together with the MOE&HS have suggested that some universities have some new medium E-libraries and made them available for their students and staff, while others do not have the required network infrastructure, hardware and software to create E-libraries, but most of them use the old manual system of libraries. Therefore, the purpose of this assignment is, to establish an effective electronic library for Tima-ade university in Gabiley and make recommendations on the accesiblity of resources required for an electronic library.
Required Outputs
1. Digital-library installed at a selected university
2. A comprehensive document providing best way for applying an effective Digital-library which is accessible throughout the campuses of each of the selected institution.
3. A guidance note on how to use the system, (installation, un-installation, its maintenance and training materials for the staff in these universities.
4. Recommendations where to obtain the required academic resources (proper books, websites and course materials) those are required to be installed into the system and essential requirements of the Digital-librairy.
Estimated Duration of the Assignment
The estimated assignment duration is 40 days (Consultancy firm can also propose their time frame for accomplishing this task)
Expected Travels
The consultants will make occasional travels to the university campus in Gabiley
Requirements
Valid registeration license of the consultancy firm from the relevant government authority

Documented proven experience of similar activities on electronic libraries development and application.

CV for the technical experts of the consultancy firm (Libraray management, information communication technology and software engineering are preffered qualifications.

Technical and financial proposal indicating the methodology, system design, time frame and breakdown of cost required for this taks.

Effective presentation and report writing skills, strong analytical and strategicskills

Good knowledge on library management

Good skill on training and transmitting of knowledge.

Application Deadline
Deadline for submission of tender documents is Tuesday 16th May, 2017 at 11:00 am at the Norwegian Refugee Council Office in NRC Hargeisa behind Ambassador Hotel. Consultaties who do not submit their tenders documents by this deadline will not be considered.

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