National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (corresponding to section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013). NSDC was set up by Ministry of Finance as Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
The Government of India through Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) holds 49% of the share capital of NSDC, while the private sector has the balance 51% of the share capital. To give impetus to the employment initiatives in the country, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Govt. of India has been organizing various skill development training and placement programs across the nation for providing suitable job/apprenticeship opportunities in private sector to the skilled/unskilled job seekers. With initiatives like PMKVY, the Government is ensuring employment opportunities in the country.
Objective
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), the client intends to select and empanel top class testing agencies who can provide their services for the testing of various software applications/ websites (both Web and Mobile based testing) for NSDC’s running and upcoming projects i.e. Skill India Digital-(SID) platform (hereinafter called “Bidders”).
Bidder will be working on NSDC’s projects and will be responsible to perform testing activities including both: –
- Manual Testing: To check the quality of a new application without using automation tools or scripting, which shall include (not limited to): –
a) Functional testing
b) Systems integration testing
c) Regression testing
d) User acceptance and usability testing
e) Volume and Stress testing
f) Load testing
g) Security testing
h) API testing
i) Migration testing
j) QA process design
k) Exploratory testing
l) Continuous integration testing - Automated Testing: To create the process of automating the testing of software applications and mobile apps using automation tools. Various automation testing procedures/ tools needed to be performed as per the project requirement such as: –
(i) Capabilities of Automation testing tools
(ii) AI powered Automation Tools
(iii) Automated Web Testing Tools
(iv) Ability to do automation on cross application testing
(v) Web apps, Mobile apps, CRM, Enterprise Apps
(vi) Web and Mobile Automation testing (Functional, performance)
Objective of this RFE is to empanel industry relevant experts in providing both manual and automated testing services to NSDC, this empanelment will be valid for Three Years. A Separate Terms of Reference (ToR) with detailed scope of work shall than be floated with the available pool of shortlisted & empaneled agencies, after evaluating the response from empaneled agencies against the ToR work orders shall be awarded.
This RFE is intended to shortlist and make a pool of top-quality Testing Agencies who can efficiently handle and provide quality testing services throughout the development process. If the agency who receives work order through their response submitted against floated ToR and does not able to provide its services as per the expected outcomes, its services shall be discontinued, and a fresh work order shall be allotted to another empaneled agency from available list of empaneled agencies by following shortlisting procedures however NSDC at its sole discretion reserves the right to select/ reject any specific bidder at any stage of the bidding process.
The Bidder shall submit a signed and complete Proposal comprising the documents and forms in accordance with Annexure 1. The Bidder shall submit Technical proposal only on eProcurement Portal https://nsdc.eproc.in/ProductNSDC /publicDash as per process mentioned in Annexures (refer document attached below).
Placements of Work Orders and floating of ToR for empaneled agencies
- This tender is for empanelment of multiple vendors; however to give work orders to agencies NSDC will roll out ToR as and when a new requirement is identified with all the empaneled vendor empaneled through this RFE and will ask for submission of technical and commercial proposal, the selection methodology followed will be QCBS (90:10 or 80:20 or 70:30 or 60:40) depending on the criticality of the project.
- After empanelment, issuance of Work Order will be at the sole discretion of NSDC.
- Work Order(s) may encompass the complete scope of work or may require few services. Depending on the requirement, work orders may be placed to anyone of the empaneled vendor; more than one depending on the project requirement or the Terms of Reference (TOR) may be given to more than one empaneled vendor for their proposals for the specific scope of work using the QCBS.
Scope of Services
Services
- NSDC hereby engages the Service Provider as one of the empanelled firms on non exclusive basis in accordance with this Agreement.
- The Parties have entered into this Agreement in order to allow NSDC to award one or more SOW under the Agreement. The Service Provider shall provide the Services specified in Annexure II, as and when NSDC issues the SOW specifying the details of Services to be delivered along with the delivery schedule.
- Engagement mentioned in clause 2.1.1 does not guarantee that work will be assigned/ SOW will be issued to the Service Provider.
- During the Term of this Agreement, Service Provider shall keep NSDC informed about any material change (internal or external) which may impact the Service Provider’s obligation in any manner.
- Further, for avoidance of doubt, the Service Provider and all its employees, subcontractor or any associated persons as the case may be, shall never be deemed to be employee(s), sub-contractor(s), agent(s), partner(s) etc. of NSDC for any purpose whatsoever.
Sub-Contracting
The Service Provider shall not assign or sublet the empanelment or any part of it to any other Service Provider in any form. Any such attempt shall result in termination of the Agreement and forfeiture of the security deposit and revocation of bank guarantees.
Last date for submission: 25 April 2023, 06:00 PM
