Request for Information Technology Service
Solid Waste Management (SWM) Project
A Software Development Company, Web and Smartphone Applications
Terms of Reference
Background
Women Affairs Center (WAC) was established in August 1991 by a group of activist professional women to promote women's rights and gender equality within the Palestinian society via empowering and enhancing women's abilities in a range of non-traditional skills to address the problems and respond to the needs of women under the difficult political, socioeconomic, cultural and legal context in the Gaza Strip. It’s a women's knowledge-based center playing an innovative and catalytic role in empowering women; and advocating women's rights and gender equality in the Palestinian sustainable development process. WAC is an independent and non-profit Palestinian NGO with the purpose of empowering women and advocating women’s rights and gender equality through capacity development, information, and innovative research and advocacy programs.
DCA/NCA and its implementing partner, Women Affairs Centre (WAC), propose a gender-responsive project to tackle plastic waste problems by empowering women against the negative effects of Climate while enhancing vulnerable women’s economic coping capacity via receiving cash from the recycling of plastic to cover their basic needs. Waste that is not properly managed – especially excreta and other liquid-solid waste from households and the community is a serious health hazard and leads to the spread of infectious diseases.
The solid waste project needs to have a mobile application that facilitates the process of monitoring and evaluation of the project objectives by clarifying the amount of collected waste, the number of collection times, and the points that the woman will obtain during the collection process and linking all beneficiaries to the project
Purpose and expected outputs of this assignment
The application will provide all the relevant and needed data regarding this activity including women's names, the weight of plastic, no. of points, no. of remaining points, sort of plastic, frequency and etc…
The application will be used by the following:
- The project team of WAC to follow the progress and to monitor the implementation to make sure that women will provide the plastic to the identified supermarkets and they will gain points in return according to the weight of plastic. In addition, it will be a tool to follow the data entry of supermarkets’ owners to avoid any fraud based on criteria. The results will be shown on a dashboard to the project team to ease the monitoring and evaluation process.
- The identified supermarkets which they will be responsible for the data entry regarding the women’s updates.
- The application can provide a dashboard, electronic card, to women which provide them with the needed information regarding the no. of points, how many points remain. This is an option that will be used by women who have smart phones. However, the application will be systemized to send direct messages providing the information mentioned above for those who do not have smart phones as the application will take into consideration this issue.
Requirements for experience and qualifications
The IT company should have an advanced degree (a master’s degree is preferable) in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) related fields including Management Information Systems, Software Engineering, or Knowledge Management, related professional certification is a plus.
The consultant needs to have the following experience:
- Minimum 5 years of proven professional experience in specific System dashboards connected with mobile apps.
- Proven experience in developing mobile apps and websites. Applicants should
- submit 2 samples of previously developed mobile apps and 2 samples of developed websites.
- Experience in similar assignments with a proven track record of preparing mobile apps, systems, and software dashboards.
- Experience in similar assignments with a proven track record
- Proficiency in working in Agile methodology.
- Excellence in spoken and written English.
- Strong verbal and personal communication skills.
- Resident of the Gaza Strip
- Good experience with building android and iOS apps, Flutter is preferred over native apps.
- The company’s suggested team should have a university degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Management,
- Have a proven experience in web development, database management system establishment, maintenance and design,
- Excellent troubleshooting, performance tuning, debugging, query optimization
Conditions
- The provider should price each system separately.
- The provider should fix the bugs and apply amendments that result from the testing Phase.
- The provider should provide maintenance and support service for one year.
- The Provider should handle the system code (the source code) to the WAC
- WAC is the only owner of the systems' code (the source code), and the provider is not entitled to use it or resell it in any way.
- The cost of the system hosting during the development and testing phase must be carried out by the provider.
- A training session should be organized to train the relevant users
Application Procedure
Applicants are required to submit the following:
- Company Profile highlighting previous experiences in similar projects.
- Brief methodology and work plan
- Financial proposal indicating consultancy fee including all necessary expenses and logistical arrangements related to the assignment.
- Planning and organization: Ability to identify priority activities and assignments, allocation of the appropriate amount of time and resources for completing the work.
- Professionalism: Strong expertise in hardware, software and programming, system analysis, requirements engineering, and SRS techniques with good analytical skills and ability to solve problems. Preference will be given to those who previously developed SRS documents for several systems of various sizes before.
- User Orientation: the ability to understand user needs in order to provide user-friendly and ergonomic solutions that effectively meet user requirements.
- Curiosity and open-mindedness: ability to ask questions to clarify, and exhibit interest in having two-way communication; demonstrate openness in sharing information.
- Teamwork: the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve the assignment’s goals and outcomes.
Requirements
Mobile App Requirements:
User Interface UI Requirements:
- All functions must be compatible with the mobile platform.
- All data must be easily viewable on different Mobile platforms.
- The screens should be designed in a stylish, professional, and minimal approach.
- All icons must be clean, stylish, crisp, and distinguishable.
- All buttons and objects must be reactive to touch and work as supposed to.
- Admin panel should be developed by open-source programming language
- The applicant should submit the mobile app to App Store and Play Store.
Testing
The applicant is expected to perform a full comprehensive testing for the mobile application and the admin panel including all the known scenarios to make sure that everything is working before the final submission and to be included in a test plan and test cases with the results for each of the phases.
Website Requirements:
User Interface UI Requirements:
- All functions must be compatible with the mobile platform
- Designs and colors should be aligned, and polished buttons.
- All data must be easily viewable on different devices.
Application
IT company offers should contain the following:
- One copy of both Technical and Financial proposals in separate and sealed envelopes. (prices in Dollars).
- Profile / CV of the consultants at the company with relevant experience in similar services.
The Evaluation Method
A two-stage procedure will be utilized in evaluating the Proposals; a technical evaluation and a financial evaluation. Proposals will be ranked according to their combined technical and financial scores using the weights of 70% for the Technical Proposal; and 30% for the offered price.
Financial Arrangement
Payments shall be after final approval and submission all requirements the IT company shall be required to submit a payment request with the deliverables submitted.
Closing Date and Delivery
The closing date for receiving consultancy offers is on Sunday 17/07/2022. at 12:00 PM. Offers must be submitted by hand to the WAC office./ Please find the full TOR here
The interested IT company is kindly requested to express approval of the offer by signing all the TOR papers, with submitting the requested documents to the below address:
WAC Address: Al Rimal –Khalil Al Wasir ST.Al Said Building.