Name for Proposal – Helen Keller Int’l – Vitamin A Supplementation – Growth of technical instruments and e-learning platform

Introduction

Helen Keller Worldwide (Helen Keller Intl) is a nonprofit group devoted to saving and enhancing the sight and lives of the world’s susceptible by combatting the causes and penalties of blindness, poor well being and malnutrition. Helen Keller Intl invitations all eligible Bidders to submit proposals to assist Helen Keller to develop a equipment of instruments and guides to assist workers in implementing vitamin A supplementation (VAS) packages. These merchandise will function the foundations for an e-learning coaching platform. The platform will encompass movies and interactive materials with acceptable content material to function a coaching system and useful resource for all present and new Helen Keller workers concerned in VAS programming. The consultants ought to subsequently mix public well being specialists and specialists in growth of curriculum and on-line studying platforms.

The aim of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to pick out a vendor that may present finest worth to Helen Keller Intl, when each technical and value elements are mixed.

Program Background

For a number of a long time, Helen Keller Worldwide has been supporting governments in a number of nations to offer vitamin A dietary supplements (VAS) each 6 months to kids between aged 6 to 59 months. In Sub Saharan Africa, Helen Keller Worldwide helps VAS providers in 13 nations by two approaches:

• Vitamin A supplementation offered to kids 6-59 months by mass campaigns organised twice a yr. Groups of distributors go to all households within the nation over a five-day interval to complement kids. In some circumstances, caregivers are requested to carry their kids to the closest distribution submit for supplementation.
• The combination of Vitamin A supplementation into the routine well being system. This strategy makes use of numerous alternatives for reaching kids as they’re dropped at well being services, such because the expanded program of immunization vaccination contact factors. Vitamin A dietary supplements are distributed to all eligible kids attending the services.

Typical assist offered by Helen Keller contains the next parts:

• Situational evaluation / evaluation
• Planning for distribution
• Coaching of distributors and well being staff
• Sensitization / mobilization of communities
• Logistics and provide chain administration for vitamin A dietary supplements and different gadgets
• Implementation of the supply fashions
• Monitoring, analysis and studying

As Helen Keller continues to broaden its assist to VAS providers to extra nations and areas, it’s important that technical groups be outfitted with standardized guides and instruments that may present a framework for motion to present nation groups and can assist prepare and onboard new groups and nations. Every of those parts requires a set of instruments and guides that may represent minimal program requirements for VAS. These requirements additionally be certain that VAS providers are offered persistently throughout nations and that they’re designed and carried out with the best stage of high quality. The instruments, guides, templates, movies, and on-line coaching can be developed within the type of a self-paced on-line program and toolkit to be hosted on Helen Keller Worldwide’s studying administration system (supplier: NetDimensions). This on-line program is meant to be interactive, make use of grownup studying strategies, and make the most of actions and workouts to check and reinforce the educational aims. This system must also be easy to navigate and arranged in a manner that enables learners to rapidly entry hyperlinks, templates, instruments, movies, on-line trainings, and assets

Helen Keller Worldwide is searching for consultants to guide the event of this on-line program on VAS Minimal Program Requirements between July 2022 and March 2023.

Scope of Work, Key Goals and Actions

To develop the VAS Minimal Program Requirements on-line program, consultants can be anticipated to:

1. Collaborate with the VAS workforce to determine studying aims and create a preliminary listing of the instruments, guides, and information merchandise which might be vital for nation groups to make sure high quality standardised approaches to the design, implementation and monitoring of VAS providers in nations
2. Align the content material with the ProjectDPro curriculum to make sure the coaching compliments the supplies and doesn’t unnecessarily replicate steerage, instruments, or templates.
3. Define a proposed program design sequencing the instruments, job aids, movies, and on-line trainings with their respective studying aims and proposed information assessments. Instruments and movies ought to contemplate a microlearning strategy and on-line trainings shouldn’t exceed 30 – 45 minutes,
4. From the excellent listing of merchandise wanted and the proposed design, determine which of them exist already and suggest a timeline for updating those which want changes, and creating those which have to be created.
5. Develop all lacking guides, instruments, movies, and/or on-line trainings for every element of the VAS program. Make the most of Articulate Storyline and Rise 360 to develop and produce movies, assessments, and/or on-line trainings.
6. Collaborate with the Director Studying and Growth to construction, arrange, and check the net program within the studying administration system.

Pattern of merchandise anticipated:

• Situational evaluation / evaluation
  • Information on tips on how to conduct a state of affairs and desires evaluation particular to VAS and to the native context
  • Particular parts ought to embrace well being system constructing blocks evaluation
• Planning for distribution
  • Micro on-line coaching on planning instruments: tips on how to conduct high quality planning for VAS at nationwide and sub-national ranges, figuring out minimal contents of high quality planning instruments
• Coaching of distributors and well being staff
  • Coaching movies and toolkits for every type of actors concerned in VAS
  • Supportive supervision checklists and guides
• Sensitization / mobilization of communities
  • Social mobilization guides for numerous varieties of supply fashions
  • Examples of mobilization supplies
• Logistics and provides chains for vitamin A dietary supplements and different gadgets
  • Steerage on tips on how to organise provide chain for VAS
  • Checklist of important gadgets required for VAS
• Implementation of the supply fashions
  • Steerage on the assorted supply fashions for VAS, tips on how to design and implement them
  • Steerage on transition from marketing campaign approaches to routine supply
  • Steerage on tips on how to combine well being system strengthening approaches to VAS
• Monitoring & Analysis
  • Checklist of indicators to contemplate in VAS providers and tips on how to acquire them and analyse them
  • Steerage on strengthening of well being info programs for VAS

Deliverables and Illustrative Timeline

• Preliminary listing of the instruments, guides, and information merchandise which might be vital for nation groups to make sure high quality standardised approaches to the design, implementation and monitoring of VAS providers in nations
• Draft program studying aims and description of proposed program design sequencing the instruments, job aids, movies, and on-line trainings with their respective studying aims and proposed information assessments. Consists of front-end evaluation, design, and lesson outlines
• Growth of all lacking guides, instruments, movies, and/or micro on-line trainings for every element of the VAS program using Articulate Storyline and Rise 360 as relevant. Supplies needs to be delivered in commonplace file codecs to allow them to be migrated throughout totally different platforms. This contains content material pages, textual content, graphics, maybe liberal use of mutli media, interactive workouts. Elearning modules needs to be delivered in Articulate Storyline and Rise 360 information in addition to the revealed variations in SCORM
• Construction, arrange, and check the net program within the studying administration system (in collaboration with the Director of Studying and Growth)

The variety of days proposed could also be topic to changes and solely consists in an preliminary estimation to information bidders in pricing. It represents the variety of days for one particular person.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS and EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrated expertise in educational design, facilitation, and grownup studying, together with expertise within the growth of public well being associated trainings.
• Expertise creating studying supplies for a multi-cultural target market.
• Data and expertise designing programs in line with the ADDIE mannequin or its derivatives and incorporate finest Studying and Growth practices for the grownup learner.
• Expertise working with INGOs a plus.
• Expertise collaborating with Topic Matter Consultants (SMEs) to carry their content material to life, and to transmit personal information of coaching finest practices to SMEs.
• Expertise working with rising digital studying and collaboration platforms, features, and instruments.

Usually, below this scope of labor, experience and expertise is required in two areas: educational design and public well being. A advisor could elect to submit a proposal with demonstrated expertise in a single or each areas. Helen Keller Worldwide reserves the proper to pick out as much as two consultants to companion collectively in every space of experience. In case you are submitting a proposal below one space of experience, please share how you have got partnered with others to develop related deliverables.

Tips on how to apply

The Full Name for Proposal needs to be consulted and downloaded from the next hyperlink:

https://docs.google.com/doc/d/1uHURGoAHVux3grayR5QOfy5_tyizCftc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118198353429479072831&rtpof=true&sd=true

It’s crucial that bidders seek the advice of the total proposal because it offers all vital particulars for submission of purposes, together with the proposal analysis standards.

Software needs to be despatched to Kenya.recruitment@hki.org

SECTION 3: Proposal Directions

The Bidder’s proposal will encompass two separate paperwork:

Half 1 – Technical Provide

Half 2 – Monetary Provide

The Technical Provide and the Monetary Provide (altogether “proposal”) have to be submitted individually. The Bidder shouldn’t embrace any value information within the Technical Provide.

The proposal needs to be concisely introduced and structured, and will clarify intimately the Bidder’s availability, expertise and assets to offer the requested providers.

Proposals which might be incomplete or don’t handle these standards might not be thought of within the assessment course of. All proposals might be submitted in French or in English**.**

Each the Technical Provide and Monetary Provide have to be submitted with a Cowl Letter which should embrace the next info and have to be signed and stamped by a certified consultant of the Bidder group:

1. Date of Submission of the Proposal
2. Time period of proposal validity (minimal {90} days)
3. Title of the corporate/group
4. Title and title of licensed consultant of group
5. Sort of firm/group
6. Tackle
7. Phone
8. E-mail
9. Taxpayer Identification Quantity
10. Different required paperwork that shall be included as attachments to the quilt letter:
    1. Copy of registration or incorporation within the public registry, or equal doc from the federal government workplace the place the bidder is registered.
    2. Copy of firm tax registration, or equal doc.
    3. Copy of commerce license, or equal doc.

Bidders should additionally submit a signed Battle of Curiosity Declaration Type. This type can be assessed to ascertain whether or not the Bidder has any current or potential future battle of curiosity in line with the definition in Annex A. If the conclusion is reached that any battle of curiosity declared by the Bidder might have a detrimental impression on the Bidder’s potential to carry out the Service, Helen Keller Intl could determine to reject the submitted proposal. Failure to precisely full the Battle of Curiosity Declaration Type might also result in the rejection of the submitted proposal.

Half 1: TECHNICAL OFFER

The Technical Provide needs to be within the English language, typed in Microsoft Phrase, single-spaced, with every web page numbered consecutively. A most variety of pages for every element of the Technical Provide is given beneath.

The Technical Provide ought to embrace the next:

1. Bidder previous efficiency file/related expertise– {2} pages most

Data associated to Bidder’s previous efficiency/prior expertise in conducting work within the nation/area related in nature and quantity to the providers requested (temporary description, deliverables, date, consumer and so forth.).

Bidders should additionally present contacts for at the very least three (3) skilled references for earlier work and/or expertise below related SOWs. Contact info ought to embrace, at a minimal: title of particular person, title of firm, temporary info on relationship to Bidder, handle, e mail, and telephone quantity. Helen Keller Intl reserves the proper to contact any and all references offered. Contact info for references shouldn’t be topic to the web page limitation for this part.

1. Technical strategy – {7} pages most

The technical strategy should describe the proposed strategy to reaching this system aims and should handle the next:

1. Data as as to whether the Bidder at the moment has a presence within the nation/area, and the character of this presence.

2. A short description of the Bidder’s understanding of the aims and scope of labor for the consultancy.

3. An outline of how the bidder will acquire info with Helen Keller world, regional and nation groups

4. An summary as to how the Bidder would suggest to finish the requested providers indicated on this RFP.

   1. How will consultants determine the gaps and the wants of the worldwide, regional and nation groups when it comes to information merchandise, guides and instruments
   2. What methodology can be used to develop the guides and instruments?
   3. How will the merchandise be reworked into on-line studying options and the way will the platform be developed?

5. Staff Construction necessities – {3} pages most, excluding CVs

6. Staff construction: Bidders should describe the construction of the workforce that may ship in opposition to the aims and scope of labor described on this RFP. Staff constructions should determine the challenge supervisor (or Staff Chief) and different workforce members and the roles and tasks that every could have over the length of the consultancy.

7. If any members of the proposed workforce don’t at the moment reside in certainly one of Helen Keller nations, the Bidder should state how the personnel would journey to the nation to carry out such Companies, and the estimated journey time.

At a minimal, the Bidder ought to present the next info:

1. A present CV for the proposed personnel in a format offered in Annex C. The CV should not exceed three pages in size and shall be in chronological order beginning with the latest expertise and summarizing related expertise and {qualifications}.
2. The nation of residence for all individuals proposed for the availability of this Service (that means the nation during which the particular person or individuals resides and from which they’d be flying from as a way to attain the Place of Efficiency to undertake this consulting work).
3. If any of the Bidder’s personnel don’t reside within the nation during which they’re assigned to carry out the required Companies, the Bidder should state how these personnel would journey to carry out such Companies, and the estimated journey time. The Bidder ought to specify what number of journeys is likely to be required, and which workforce members would be part of these journeys.

The Bidder should notify Helen Keller Intl if it intends to exchange a key member of the Bidder’s workforce (with an evidence for doing so) previous to the award date and supply Helen Keller Intl with the knowledge required for the approval of a alternative proposal. Any alternative shall be topic to the approval of Helen Keller Intl. That is additionally legitimate for any alternative going down throughout the contract length.

Helen Keller Intl could select to contact the Bidder prior to creating a closing determination. Please verify whether or not this might be attainable, making certain that full contact particulars are additionally included within the resume (e mail, phone quantity).

Half 2: FINANCIAL OFFER

This contract can be issued as a agency fastened worth contract with cost made in opposition to deliverables in opposition to providers/merchandise. Helen Keller Intl will solely difficulty cost through digital cost strategies and all financial institution accounts have to be within the title of the corporate/group solely.

As a part of the Monetary Provide, Bidders should embrace an in depth price range, submitted in Microsoft Excel, expressed in usd, with an accompanying price range narrative, submitted in Microsoft Phrase, describing the idea for the listed value parts. Supporting info needs to be offered in enough element to permit an entire evaluation and dedication of reasonableness of every value component. Bidders are required to incorporate and clearly label all prices deemed vital to finish the work known as for hereunder.

The Monetary Provide template might be present in Annex D and should embrace the next:

1. Labor Value: The Bidder should present info associated to workforce construction, every day charges and Degree of Effort (LoE) (measured in days) for the deliverables listed. Please state assumptions made when submitting the associated fee info together with any further choices, and stating all situations.

2. Different Direct Prices: The Bidder ought to present a breakdown estimate of different most important direct prices that are thought of vital for completion of the work. Different direct prices will cowl transportation prices, visa, and per diem. Every other direct prices shall be agreed prior with Helen Keller Intl.

3. Oblique Charges and Mounted Price: Whether it is an Bidder’s common apply to price range oblique charges, e.g. overhead, fringe, G&A, administrative, or different charge, Bidders should clarify the charges and the charges’ base of utility within the price range narrative. Helen Keller Intl reserves the proper to request further info to substantiate an Bidder’s oblique charges. Proposed fastened price should even be defined within the price range narrative and represented as a separate line merchandise within the price range.