Social Marketing Company (SMC)

Request for Proposal for
Providing professional service to obtain registration from NGO Affairs Bureau
 

Background of Social Marketing Company (SMC)

Social marketing is the application of commercial marketing tools and concepts to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and communities. While the goal of commercial marketing is primarily profit maximization, social marketing aims to change behavior for social good.

Social Marketing Company, Bangladesh or SMC began its journey in 1974 as a project to address the rapid population growth in the country. It was set up by Population Services International (PSI), a US-based INGO under an agreement with the Government of Bangladesh and USAID. In 1990, after having achieved significant success, the project was converted to a not-for-profit private limited company with a voluntary Board of Directors. In 2014, SMC formed SMC Enterprise Ltd, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary to separate profitable activities from nonprofit to help effectively manage a growing and complex operation which could no longer function smoothly under a single unit.

Our program operations are implemented for the purpose of achieving social good in line with SMC’s mission. They are supported through grants from donors, private sector organizations and surplus revenues from company’s for-profit subsidiary business sector operations. SMC works with graduate and non-graduate private sector health care providers across the country in different public health priority areas like: reproductive health, maternal and child health, nutrition, TB, etc. through various networks including 7,000 Blue Star providers, 3,500 private health care providers and 700 obstetricians and gynecologists. The core expertise of SMC program is the behavior change communication (BCC) at community level and mass media campaign at national level and capacity building of the private sector health care providers across the country.

Objective/Key assignment :

  1. Submit application to obtain the registration from NGOAB.
  2. Assist, preparing and submitting all the required documents for NGO Affairs Bureau registration
  3. Submit application to obtain the registration from NGO Affairs Bureau under the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Act, 2016 (FDRA)
  4. Any other tasks related to the assignment ( If required)

Eligibility for application:

Qualified and experienced consultants/ firms are invited to submit their proposal (Technicnical + Financial).  Interested consultants/ firms must provide documentary evidence on;

  1. Legal establishment for a minimum of Two (2) years (valid trade license and other related documents),
  2. Provide detail planning of the assignment with time line.
  3. List of team members along with details of their experience.
  4. In addition the interested organization will provide any other necessary supporting documents as annexure(s).   

Application dropping deadline and place of dropping:

  1. If you have any technical queries related to this tender, please fill free to communicate with AGM-HR (Phone: +88-02-9821074-80, Ex-338 and Mob: 01770-799108).
  2. Scanned proposal (Technical+ Financial) with required documents must be sent to the following email: smc.tender@smc-bd.org, on or before 3:00 pm on December 10, 2020. The financial offer should be inclusive of VAT & Tax.
  3. Application opening: December 10, 2020 at 3:30 pm (No bidder will be allowed in the opening session).
  4. SMC will not accept any incomplete submission. All responses and the received supporting documents will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be made public.
  5. SMC reserves the right to change or cancel this procurement process or any of its requirements at any time during the process.

Thanks and Regards.

Manager
Procurement
Social Marketing Company
Email: shohel.chowdhury@smc-bd.org

Manager, Procurement, SMC Tower (13th floor), 33  Banani C/A, Dhaka-1213 Phone: 9821074-80 ext-  259, 180 & 217