Bangladesh Red Crescent Society

Terms of Reference (ToR):
Hiring Consultant for BDRCS Central Data & Information Management System

Introduction:

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) is the country’s oldest and largest humanitarian organization. The Society was constituted on 31 March, 1973 by the President’s Order No. 26 of 1973 with retrospective effect from 16 December 1971. Since the establishment, as an auxiliary to the public authorities, the Society has been providing humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people in any natural and human-induced disasters. However, the evolving trend, pattern and magnitude of disasters and crises has prompted BDRCS to invest in establishing data and information management system which is inevitable to improve the efficiency, relevance, compliance to minimum standards in providing humanitarian services, especially in the complex humanitarian imperatives. Currently some department, program, projects, manage their own database, which are mostly unautomated and are not connected to a central data management and analysis system. Although, there are instances of applying mobile based data collection, those are very much project specific and not widely practiced for data collection at different level. There is no standard analytical / visualization tool is being used for standardized reporting. 

In view of improving the data and information management system, BDRCS envisions towards establishing a platform to enable management and governance informed decision making and improved service delivery to vulnerable communities. As a part of this, BDRCS intends to start with a simple automated system in its 1st phase of central data & information management system development initiative and incorporate necessary expansion into the system gradually by phases.   

Method Of Application

Interested individual/ firm are invited to submit proposal by 26th April, 2019 through email to sayma.ferdowsy@bdrcs.org and CC: mdkamrul.hasan@bdrcs.org & subrata.biswas@bdrcs.org
with the following documents:

  • Individual/ Firm profile: CV of expert/s including records on past experience in similar assignment and references
  • Technical Proposal: with detailed methodology, tools and work plan along with samples (at least two) of previous work
  • Financial Proposal: listing all costs associated with the assignment including consultancy fees for database development, test run, training, maintenance, vat/tax etc.

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