RFP for Long term strategic partnership to conduct impact assessment of 10 years of AIF’s Fellowship Program (2023- 2033)

Request for Proposal (RFP) for “Long term strategic partnership to conduct impact assessment of 10 years of AIF’s Fellowship Program (2023- 2033)”

Ref: AIFT/RFP/DL/2024-25/004

I. Summary of Deadlines:

Release of Request for Proposal	13th June 2024
Registration for Pre-bid Meeting (Online)	20th June 2024 (16:00 Hrs. IST)   Link for Registration: https://forms.gle/kETQypuyqvFqGX4r9
Bid Submission Closing Date	30th June 2024 (23:59 Hrs. IST)   Please submit proposals in the following respective Google Forms -   1.     Technical: https://forms.gle/SbkbHMibJwpBVmRm9   2.     Financial: https://forms.gle/VgPj1SQxqpTZay4g7
Technical Bid Opening	1st July 2024
Financial Bid Opening	5th July 2024
Finalization of Contract	TBD (to be intimated to the awardee only)

Please note that The American India Foundation Trust (AIFT) reserves the right to modify this schedule as needed. All prospective bidders who have confirmed interest by the due date as above, will be notified of any changes simultaneously by email.

Scope of Work/ Key Deliverables:

About Banyan Impact Fellowship (BIF):

Banyan Impact Fellowship (BIF) is a unique, immersive bi-national volunteer service program with strategic importance in the US-India corridor. By facilitating exchange and collaboration between young professionals from India and the US, the program aims to shape the next generation of leaders committed to positive and sustainable change and to create a lasting US-India relationship by broadening the existing constituency of future leaders, civil society, and other stakeholders; all in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 17, Partnerships for the Goals. 

Through its emphasis on a service-leadership model, the bilateral program places young professionals from the US and India in service with communities and organizations across the two countries for mutual learning, capacity building, and leadership development in support of social justice. Fellows work on projects closely linked to Sustainable Development Goals and create sustainable impact through service and fieldwork across diverse thematic areas that have expanded in scope over the years and include education, public health, livelihoods, social inclusion, minority rights, Dalit and tribal rights, climate justice, LGBTQ+ rights, gender, arts, sports, CSR, among others.

Since 2001, AIF has selected, trained, and supported 539 Fellows and 216 partner organizations across 25 Indian states to scale impact, catalyze change, and build the next generation of social change makers. Starting 2022, amongst other innovations to the program, we will add 3 “Senior Fellows” serving as mentors to the cohort as well as 5 Indian Fellows serving in the U.S. for the first time.

AIF has renewed its commitment to this unique and strategic programme in the US-India corridor for the next 10 years. This long-term commitment allows the programme to leverage new forms of partnerships for learning and impact which was not possible until now. Our long-term (10 years) commitment to the programme offers an opportunity for a knowledge organization to leverage this programme investment by AIF to create, capture and disseminate new knowledge to relevant eco-systems (for example, in the international education, volunteering space). With a partnership like this, AIF benefits from better collection and dissemination of evidence and learning emanating from the programme over the next 10 years, which improves programme design and impact over the 10 year period.

For further details about the program, fellow profiles and placements, visit our website:https://aif.org/fellowship/

Program Goal:

The program’s goal is to strengthen the U.S.-India bond by investing in the leadership development of socially-minded change makers, chosen from the U.S. and India combined and deploying them within civil society organizations in India to create sustainable and scalable change.

The Fellowship program satisfies the bridge-building mandate of AIF by remaining focused on three pillars:

1)     Training future leaders through service and immersion in grassroots development in India,

2)     Fostering cultural understanding between Indians and Americans in order to build friendship, collaboration, and innovation now and in the long term, and

3)     Building capacity in the Indian development sector by partnering with civil society  organizations to host Fellows for innovative projects that further AIF’s mission in India.

Bid Submission:

Bidders are advised to submit bid online in Google forms link -

1. Pre-bid meeting interest submission- https://forms.gle/kETQypuyqvFqGX4r9
2. Technical Bid Submission Link- https://forms.gle/SbkbHMibJwpBVmRm9
3. Financial Bid Submission Link-  https://forms.gle/VgPj1SQxqpTZay4g7

Note: Technical bid and financial bid are to be submitted separately in separate links.

Following points are to be kept in mind while submitting the bids-

1. All Bid must contain the complete address of firm, including contact number/ email ID of the person who is authorized to submit the bid under their signatures.
2. All bids must be signed on all pages by the bidder. Unsigned bids shall not be entertained/ accepted.
3. All pages of the bid being submitted must be signed and sequentially numbered by the bidder irrespective of the nature of content of the documents.
4. Bids not submitted as per the specified format and nomenclature or ambiguous in nature will be liable to be rejected.
5. The interested bidders may submit their bid to AIFT on or before the time mentioned in this RFP Documents. Any bid received by AIFT after the prescribed deadline for submission of bids will be rejected and no further correspondence in this regard will be entertained.
6. Financial bid should be prepared as per Annexure II given in the RFP Documents. Same is also to be uploaded in google forms too.
7. Bidders shall indicate their rates in clear/ visible figures as well as in words. In case of a mismatch, the rates written in words will prevail.
8. At any time prior to the last date for submission of bids, AIFT, may, for any reason, whether at its own initiative or in response to a clarification requested by a prospective bidder, modify the RFP Documents by an amendment and publish the revised version of the RFP.
9. Printed terms and conditions of the bidders will not be considered as forming part of their bid. In case terms and conditions as given in the RFP Documents are not acceptable to any bidder, they should clearly specify the deviations in their bids.

10.  Bids complete in all respects along with supporting documents, must be submitted as per the RPF. No physical document is to be submitted by the bidders.

11.  NO conditional Bid will be entertained and will be rejected.

AIFT Contact:
Any communication must be sent to: procurement@aif.org

To download the full RFP, click here

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