Deadline: 02-Oct-20
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites you to submit a Proposal to this Call for Proposals (CFP) for the setting up of a Business Intelligence Platform in the Republic of Mauritius as a pilot project for a BI platform for the SADC Region.
UNDP Mauritius intends to contract the services of NGOs to implement activities earmarked under Output 2.1 in order to promote the dissemination of key business data to businesses and entrepreneurs based in Mauritius and the SADC region such as that they can cope with the New Normal posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pilot project aims to target members of the business community, including SMEs and local entrepreneurs, together with Government entities for the provision of reports and analytics that will allow them, inter alia, to:
- Perform data exploration through linking and drilling;
- Derive context from historical trends;
- Compare results to business/ sectoral goals.
Objectives
The objective of this Call for Proposals is to set up an integrated Business Intelligence Platform for Mauritius and thereafter for the SADC region to serve the following goals and objectives:
- To provide a toolset for businesses in the SADC regions to absorb, organize, discover, and analyze data to reveal actionable insights that can help improve decision-making.
- To develop a synergy among all economies of the SADC in terms of economic indicators, sectoral analysis, and to compare the competitiveness of sectors across various economies of the region.
- To enhance regional cooperation and integration of the SADC region in terms of availability of concurrent business and economic statistics, trade, import and export statistics, data analytics to help countries to reposition themselves as centers of excellence in key sectors.
Funding Information
It is intended to award up to three projects to NGOs in the Republic of Mauritius more specifically in Mauritius and Rodrigues, proposals amounts should be to a maximum of USD 50,000 for direct interventions in every single community as stated in the ToR.
The project should be implemented over a period of 10 weeks and cover the following activities:
- Environment set-up;
- Requirements gathering;
- Solutions mapping;
- Implementation;
- Testing;
- Documented user Manual;
- User training;
- Project signoff.
Evaluation Criteria
Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- The sound technical proposal that includes innovative and replicable inclusion mechanisms to maximize the value transfer to the beneficiaries.
- High impact interventions directly targeting and responding to the needs established in the Terms of Reference (ToR).
- Size of the budget requested commensurate financial management capacity.
- Participatory monitoring and evaluation that will contribute to building a sense of ownership among the beneficiaries to promote the sustainability of the interventions.
Selection Process:
UNDP will review proposals through a five-step process:
- determination of eligibility;
- technical review of eligible proposals;
- scoring and ranking of the eligible proposals based on the assessment criteria outlined in the previous section to identify highest-ranking proposals;
- round of clarification (if necessary) and verification (office presence, license to operate in target state/districts) with the highest scored proposals;
- Responsible Party Agreement signature.
Required Documents
The following documents must be submitted in order for the submission to be considered:
- Detailed Proposal;
- CVs of key personnel proposed;
- Information and details of the facility proposed for this beneficiary focused project including photos of classes, training equipment, and the location. All in PDF format;
- Audited financial statements for the past two years, including management reports;
- Copy of the registration certificate at the national level;
- Any recommendation and endorsement letters from UN partners and INGOs;
- Duly filled the PCAT form as at Annex 3.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=70701