Invitation for Proposals (IFP) by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) for Selection of Agencies for Validation and Verification of Placement under PMKVY

NSDC is a one of its kind, Public Private Partnership in India in which 51% of the total share capital has been contributed by private sector. NSDC has been implementing some of the flagship schemes like PMKVY and PMKK of Government of India.

Placement being an important part of the scheme that provides an insight on the work regulization to Training Provider. Successful placement determines Target Reallocation and Tranch 3 payment to Training Provider / Centre along with Post Placement Support to the eligible candidates. NSDC intends to hire agencies for Validation and Verification of Placements under PMKVY (2016-2020).

NSDC now through its IFP number: TENDER/PMKVY/2018/0027 invites sealed Technical and Financial Proposals from eligible agencies for setting up the Framework Agreements (FA) for Validation and Field Verification of Placement under PMKVY (2016-2020).

NSDC at its discretion will have 2 or more agencies for Desk verification and Field Verification. Ideally, NSDC will not like to have same agency doing Desk and Field Verification. Bidders are open to bid for both. However, NSDC reserve the right to increase and decrease the number of agencies.

Field verification work has been divided in 7 Zones and bidder can bid for 1 or more zones. In case, there are no bidder for 1 or more zone, then the bidder who has selected for maximum zone, will have to carry out Field verification for non-bided zone also and the price for those zones shall be decided by NSDC as per its standard.

Each zone will be treated as separate assignment for purpose of evaluation and reporting. An agency may apply for all zone depending upon its preference.

The Framework Agreement shall be valid for a period of Two year from the date of signing of the Agreement. The validity may be extended for a further period (maximum one years) in accordance with the terms of the framework agreement.

NSDC will use reverse auction/ E-Auction process for financial opening and price discovery for this Procurement. Only if 3 or more vendor are qualified in Technical Criteria, e-auction will be used for this procurement. E-Auction details and time slot will be informed to qualified vendor at later stage.

A pre-proposal meeting will be held on 14th September 2018 at 11:00 Hrs. at the address given below to provide additional clarifications. Non-attendance at the preproposal meeting will not be a cause for disqualification of a Proposer. Interested Proposers should depute their staff only to attend the pre-proposal meeting.

A complete set of documents for setting up framework agreement in English may be downloaded ( Click Here ) by interested Proposers from Business section of www.SkillReporter.com or from the official website of NSDC at https://www.nsdcindia.org/active-tender free of cost. Proposer would be solely responsible for ensuring that any subsequent addenda issued thereafter and available in website is also downloaded / incorporated in the document while preparing and submitting Proposals.

An organization is allowed to submit the proposal as an individual or in consortium with other partners. Same agency can apply for desk validation and field verification (region preferred)

Proposals must be delivered to the address below at or before 1st October 2018 at 14.00 Hrs. All Proposals must be accompanied by a proposal security (As per Annexure -A) as specified in the documents for setting up framework agreement. Late Proposals will be rejected. Technical Proposals and Financial Proposal be marked accordingly. Technical Proposals will be opened in the presence of the Proposers’ representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Financial Proposals of only those proposers will be opened who meet the technical qualification criteria laid out in the IFP. In the event of the date being declared as a closed holiday for purchaser’s office, the due date for submission of Proposals and opening will be the following day at the appointed time.

Last date for submission: 01 October 2018, 1400 hours ( 02:00 PM )

Manish Kumar
CEO & Managing Director, NSDC
National Skill Development Corporation
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e-mail: procurement@nsdcindia.org
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