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Request for Proposals No: 2046-XX Assessment of Knowledge Attitude and Practices (KAP) and Process Evaluation of Comprehensive School Health and Wellness Program in two districts of Madhya Pradesh Issued by the Nutrition International “NI” Deadline for receipt of proposals at the NI: Monday, November 20, 2023, 11:00 hrs. Indian Standard Time (IST) RFP NOTICE 1.1. Request for Proposals – Procurement Notice Nutrition International, a non-profit agency dedicated to eliminating vitamin and mineral deficiencies worldwide, invites proposals from competent Organizations or Agencies to “Assessment of Knowledge Attitude and Practices (KAP) and Process Evaluation of Comprehensive School Health and Wellness Program in two districts of Madhya Pradesh”. The submission deadline for proposals is the Monday, November 20, 2023, 11:00 hrs. Indian Standard Time (IST) INTRODUCTION TO THE RFP 2.1 Nutrition International (NI) is a global leader in finding and scaling solutions to malnutrition through coverage, leverage, and influence and strives to transform the lives of vulnerable people, especially women, adolescent girls, and children, by improving their nutritional status thereby reduce mortality, anemia, birth defects, low birth weight and stunting.NI implement these interventions with local governments and other partners across a number of high-burden countries in Africa and Asia. NI works in India through its Country Office in New Delhi with State Offices in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Nutrition International is going to hire the services of an NGO/consulting Partner (THE AGENCY), which will recruit, employ and manage implement various program activities as mentioned in the scope of work in Annexure 1. 2.2 This Request for Proposals (RFP) and particularly the Guidelines for Preparing Proposals that follow, are designed to help Respondents to produce proposals that are acceptable to NI and to ensure that all proposals are given equal consideration. It is essential, therefore, that Respondents provide the complete information that is requested, and in the formats and on the terms specified. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS 3.1. These instructions should be read in conjunction with information contained in the enclosed Terms of Reference (TOR), and in any accompanying documents within this package. This Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide NI with relevant information to “Assessment of Knowledge Attitude and Practices (KAP) and Process Evaluation of Comprehensive School Health and Wellness Program in two districts of Madhya Pradesh” to recruit, employ and manage HR, and implement various program activities as mentioned in the scope of work in Annexure 1. NI is not bound to accept the lowest priced, or any, proposal. NI reserves the right to request any (or all) Respondent(s) to meet with NI to clarify their proposal(s) without commitment, and to publish on its website answers to any questions raised by any Respondent (without identifying that Respondent). 3.2. Respondents are responsible for all costs associated with proposal preparation. 3.3. Respondents are requested to read through the sample of consulting agreement template used by NI while doing contracting with the agency for the assignment (a different template may be used with other business entities based on their status of business registration), attached as annexure 2 and state in the proposal, any clause which they might have a concern in accepting as stated in the template. Quarterly payments are released on achievement of deliverables / milestone on actual expense incurred by the agency (reimbursement model). 3.4. NI shall conduct periodic review of the tasks assigned and financial audit to assess the overall performance of the tasks assigned to the agency, at NI’s own cost. For detailed information, please check the complete version of the advert attached below
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