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EOI/QCI/0622/116
Expression of Interest
Empanelment of Organising Partners for Organising
Industry Awareness Programmes under
“MSME SUSTAINABLE (ZED) CERTIFICATION SCHEME”
Quality Council of India (QCI),
Institution of Engineers Building, 2nd Floor,
2, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg,
New Delhi-110002
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EOI Notice
1. Quality Council of India invites proposal for “Empanelment of Organising Partners for
Organising Industry Awareness Programmes under “MSME SUSTAINABLE (ZED)
CERTIFICATION SCHEME” through this EOI
2. The content of this EOI enliststhe requirements of the Quality Council of India. It includes the
terms which details out all that may be needed by the potential participants to understand
the terms and the process and explain the contractual terms that the Quality Council of India
wish to specify at this stage.
The Technical documents may be submitted to:
Central Procurement Cell, QCI : procurement.zed@qcin.org
Addressed to Deputy Director (Finance & Accounts), Quality Council of India (QCI)
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1. INTRODUCTION
The Quality Council of India (QCI) is a pioneering experiment of the Government of India in
setting up organizations in partnership with the Indian industry. The mandate of QCI is to
lead nationwide quality movement in India by involving all stakeholders for emphasis on
adherence to quality standards in all spheres of activities primarily for promoting and
protecting interests of the nation and its citizens. To achieve this, QCI is playing a pivotal
role in propagating, adoption and adherence to quality standards in all important spheres
of activities including education, healthcare, environment protection, governance, social
sectors, infrastructure sector and such other areas of organized activities that have
significant bearing in improving the quality of life and well-being of the citizens of India.
2. BACKGROUND
Quality Council of India (QCI) has been appointed as Implementing Agency (IA) for the
MSME Sustainable (ZED) Certification Scheme of the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs), Govt. of India.
As IA, QCI has been entrusted with the responsibility of conducting one-day duration
Industry Awareness Programmes on ZED through physical (face to face) or virtual mediums,
all across the country. Therefore, QCI is inviting applications from Industry Associations,
Chambers and similar bodies who have prior experience in organising programmes for
MSMEs and are interested in getting empanelled with QCI for the same. The tentative
number of Industry Awareness Programmes in the various states and union territories has
been given in the Annexure.
3. PRE-QUALIFICATION CRITERIA
An industry association with database of minimum 200 MSMEsin the manufacturing sectorare
eligible to participate in the empanelment process.
4. SELECTION CRITERIA
The eligible organisations will be evaluated on the following parameters:
S. No Criteria
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Prior experience and proven track record, reach and ability to conduct Industry
awareness programmes,specifically for MSMEs
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The organisation must have adequate staff for event and mobile app
coordination. The staff should also be fluent in English, Hindi and other relevant
regional languages.
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The applicant should have the capability to organise programmes with adequate
seating, A/V, laptop/PC with camera-enabled, high bandwidth Wi-fi/Internet
connections, Virtual Meeting Platforms, Tabs/Mobile, Power Back-up, Stationery
support.
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The applicant should have prior Experience in Conducting Industry Awareness
Programmes for MSMEs.
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Note: Only shortlisted organisations will be invited to submit detailed technical/financial
proposal in accordance with the terms and conditions put forward by QCI. Proposals from
organisations will then be evaluated for Empanelment and awarding programmes. QCI is
not bound to select any of the organisations submitting the proposals and reserves the right
of rejection of any or all proposals without assigning any reason(s) thereof.
5. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
a. Presentation: As a part of evaluation of proposals submitted by the applicants, QCI may
seek further information or a presentation from the Organizations for evaluation purposes.
QCI may call for such information/presentation at a short notice.
b. Amendments to EOI: At any time prior to the last date for receipt of applications, QCI may
for any reason, whether at its own initiative or in response to a clarification requested by a
prospective applicant, modify the EOI document by an amendment. In order to provide
prospective applicants reasonable time in which to take the amendment into account in
preparing their proposals, QCI may at its discretion extend the last date for the receipt of
proposals and/or make other changes in the requirements set out in the EOI. Any such
amendment shall be communicated to the service providers.
c. Conflict of Interest: QCI requires that organisation provides professional, objective, and
impartial analysis and data, strictly avoid conflicts with other Assignment/jobs or their own
corporate interests and act without any consideration for future work.
d. Ethics: QCI expectsthe organisation to show the highest ethical standards during the course
of the assignment.
e. Language: The Proposal should be filled by the applicant in English language only. If any
supporting documents submitted are in any language other than English, translation of the
same in English language is to be duly attested by the applicant. For purposes of
interpretation of the documents, the English translation shall prevail. All correspondence
and documents relating to the Proposal exchanged by the applicant and QCI shall also be
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