Tenders are invited for Software Development Consultancy Firm.
Job Description
Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MOECHE)
Terms of Reference (ToR) Software Development Consultancy Firm
I. General Information
Assignment Title: Software Development Consultancy Firm for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education.
Key Internal Contacts: Ministry leadership (Minister, State Minister, Deputy Minister, Director General, Teacher Development Department)
Key External Contacts: Federal Member states Ministries of Education (Jubaland, South West, Hirshabelle, Galmudug and Banaadir Regional Administration).
Issue date June 23, 2019
Closing date July 02, 2019
Duration of Assignment 6 months (with possibility of extension)
II. Background Information
Somalia is currently striving towards regaining its economic development, social inclusion and state building to ensure an improved sustained quality of life to the current and future generation. From that perspective, the Ministry of Education Culture and Higher Education of Somalia on institutional measures to better enable the role and value of education in empowering Somali citizens and developing its people and the country. The rebuilding of the education system and improving service delivery is of pertinence to the Somali population. The country faces numerous challenges with
strengthening the capacities of education institutions and systems to support continued
progress to achieving SDG 4 education targets. Ministry of Education, Culture and
Higher Education of Somalia is currently seeking Software Development Firms with
significant technical expertise and experience in online learning spaces.
III. Scope of work
The MOECHE Education—Software Development Consultancy Firmwill be
responsible for the development and regular support of the Ministry’s Online Teacher
Education Platform.
IV. Key deliverables (Measurable results)
· Design and Develop an online teacher education platform that have the
necessary features andcapabilities including creating of syllabus, unlimited courses,
quizzes, discussion forums, custom certificates, automated backup, able to handle
30, 000+ users, text messaging, web conferencing with appropriate file storage
capacity. Facilitate web hosting services as well.
· Design and develop mobile application for smartphones and computer tables that
can be accessible from the web. (Upload the application on the web).
· Design and Develop module graphical interfaces, web modules, database
modules, application reports and statistics, and any software components needed to
deliver complete and functional applications systems;
· Setup analytics system of the online teacher education platform (so that all
required reports can be generated as per ministry’s formats with ease);
· Perform all necessary regular support and maintenance, including coding,
testing, debugging, upgrading, security and software updates, answering queries, and
additional customization of software as requested by the Ministry;
· Add users and content on the system as required (make groups, assign courses,
Upload presentation scripts, etc.);
· Provide training for the team and develop user manuals and software
documentation.
V. Authority
Thekey experts of the consultancy firm will work under the supervision of the
education technologist and oversight of the Teacher Development Department key
staff. The firmwill also give reports to the other ministry’s top leadership (Minister,
State minister, Deputy ministerand the Director General) as needed.
VI. Evaluation Criteria
Criteria Points
Specific experience of the Consultant (as a firm) relevant to the 10
assignment
Adequacy and quality of the proposed methodology, and work
plan in responding to the Terms of Reference (TORs) 40
Key Experts’ qualifications and competence for the
Assignment 30
Transfer of knowledge (training) program (relevance of
approach and methodology) 10
Participation by national consultants among proposed Key
experts:
10
Total points 100
NB: Selection will be a Quality Based Selection Method
VII. How to apply
· Interested firms are requested to send their technical and financial proposals in a
separate emails to the email address
[email protected] by 10:00am July 02,
2019 indicating “Software development Consultancy Firm Application” as subject line.
Late applications will not be considered.
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