RTI INTERNATIONAL
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: FOR UPGRADE OF EXISTING WEBSITE (IMO & TARABA) AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW WEBSITE (ABIA, NIGER & DELTA) IN FIVE STATES WATER BOARDS
DEADLINE: 14TH AUGUST, 2020
RTI International in collaboration with Plan International and other partners is implementing a 4-year USAID funded Effective Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (E-WASH) project. E-WASH will provide technical assistance to state governments to improve urban water service delivery by strengthening the governance, financial, and technical viability of five (5) state water boards (SWBS) in Nigeria.
This is part of the United States Government’s (USG) efforts working with the Federal Government to address the heart of the challenges faced by the urban water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. The overall goal is improvement of urban water and sanitation service delivery.
The USAID Effective Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (E-WASH) program, is seeking qualified firms for upgrade of existing/development of New Website for State Water BOARDS (SWB) IN five state Water Boards. IMO State Water and
Sewerage Corporation – ISWSC. (LOT 1); TARABA state water and sewerage corporation-tawasco (LOT 2): ABIA state water and sewerage corporation ASwsc (LOT 3); NIGER state water and sewerage corporation- nswsc. (LOT 4); DELTA State urban water corporation-desuwaco (LOT 5)
Specific tasks include:
1. An inception report, describing how the Bidder intends to carry out the assignment and an unveiling of key parameters that
might have not been obvious at the RFP stage;
II. The vendors shall bid for upgrading existing Websites of design and develop a new one where applicable with reference to the LOT numbers.
III. The new websites must be able to accommodate and interface with all other web platforms as supported by the E-WASH Program at the SWBS.
IV. Provide training to utility nominated personnel on the management and maintenance of the website for a specific period.
V. Provide for guarantee support for at least a year
VI. Draft and Final report including Implementation strategy and action plan.
Key Deliverables:
A. Information gathering. Inception & Planning Report -7 days.
B. Design, Content Writing, Assembly and Development of Implementation Plan. -15 days.
C. Coding & testing with submission of test run performance Report – 10 days.
D. Review, Training of SWB staff, Launch/Go-Live – 15 days.
E Maintenance and after sales support Period -1 year.
Qualifications and Experience:
-Minimum of five (5) years of verifiable experience designing, developing and implementing enterprise-level web applications. RFQ 2018: Website Design And Development.
-Knowledgeable in Web 2.0 functionalities and beyond.
-Experienced in SEO standards proficient in Ul design.
-Briefly describe your firm’s organizational capacity to produce our website (eg staff, equipment, software, physical space, office location, etc.).
-Provide a company profile, length of time in business and core competencies.
-Please discuss your firm’s project management process.
-Please discuss any hardware/software vendor partnerships used.
-Please discuss your testing and support plan.
-Please explain your service level agreement structure.
-Please disclose any relevant conflicts of interest and/or pending lawsuits.
-Include time frame for completion for evaluation.
The date by which the Bidder(s) are required to submit their questions related to the REOI. No other questions will be accepted after this date 14th August 2020
The Consulting firm is expected to conduct the assignment from the period 1st September 2020 to 15th December 2020 for a period of 60 days level of effort.
Note that days may not run concurrently.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified firms should email procurement@ewash.rti.org for full details of the REOI
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