EOI-Selection of Partner for providing Software Implementation & Consulting Services for Development of NUGP at NIUA-CDG

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EOI for Selection of Partner for providing Software Implementation and Consulting Services for Development of National Urban Governance Platform (NUGP) at NIUA-CDG (on No-cost basis)

About the Organization:

National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) is a premier institute for research, capacity building and dissemination of knowledge for the urban sector in India. They conduct research on urbanization, urban policy and planning, municipal finance and governance, land economics, transit oriented development, urban livelihoods, environment & climate change and smart cities. The institute was set up to bridge the gap between research and practice, and to provide critical and objective analyses of trends and prospects for urban development.

Purpose:

The purpose of this Request for Expression of Interest (REoI) is to select a Partner for providing Software Implementation and Consulting Services for development, operationalisation and management of National Urban Governance Platform (NUGP), on behalf of NIUA-CDG.

NIUA invites sealed ‘Proposals’ from eligible, reputed, qualified Companies / Societies /Trusts or a Consortium of such aforementioned entities represented by the Lead Member, who participates in the process as detailed out in this REoI document. This REoI is open to all Offerors meeting the minimum eligibility criteria as mentioned in Section 6 of this REoI document.

Scope of Work:

The NIUA-CDG is in the process of operationalising the NUIS strategy and is looking for a long-term association with a suitable Partner to:

• Provide a free and open-source platform – with reference applications - that shall serve as the basis for NUGP. Reference applications mentioned in this REoI are an Initial set of applications and not a comprehensive list.
• Customise and enhance the offered platform for production level readiness of open-source NUGP        along with reference applications as per the NUIS Digital Blueprint."Customise and Enhance" includes any changes required for production level readiness of opensource platform along with reference applications and sample     metadata. The enhancements will be driven by the program governance process which is referred to below in the document.
• Provide technical services and capacity building support for a period of 3 years as detailed in this section. NIUA may increase the tenure of the MoU for additional period at mutually agreed terms

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide overall program and platform governance.
• Host and operate the central instance of the NUGP including the NUIS building blocks. NIUA-CDG will provide cloud infrastructure for hosting the platform for development, testing, production and rollout.
• Set up the NIUA-CDG program team to support program goals.
• Develop expertise on management advisory to states to enable the program adoption.
• Over a period of time NIUA-CDG to develop own technical and domain expertise to enable & support states and ULBs      enabled by NUGP.
• NIUA-CDG will drive program governance of state implementation of NUGP along with enabling time bound execution.         

Eligibility Criteria:

• The Offeror should be a COMPANY or a SOCIETY OR a TRUST OR a Consortium of aforementioned entities, represented by the Lead Member incorporated/registered in India. The proof of registration of the offeror is to be submitted as mentioned in the Appendix3 (e).
• The Offeror must have an office in India registered with the competent authority and should be              operational in India for atleast 5 financial years as of 31 March 2020
• The Offeror should demonstrate soundness of its financial position. As a minimum, the Offeror’s or the Lead member’s Net Worth for each of the last three financial years calculated as the difference between total assets and total liabilities, should be positive

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