Request for Proposal (RFP)  

for a consulting firm to conduct a sectoral assessment
(Agro-Processing and ICT) of  
Building Youth Employability Through Skills (BYETS)  

The Building Youth Employability through Skills (BYETS) is a four year long programme supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) and implemented by Swisscontact. The project commenced in October 2022 and aims to empower 25,000 Bangladeshi youth (including 50% women) with improved technical, employability and entrepreneurial skills, and connect them to income generating opportunities, namely, jobs and self-employment in three sectors: Ready Made Garments (RMG), Agro-Processing (AP) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). BYETS will partner with Training Service Providers (TSPs) and Employers to facilitate employment opportunities for youth across Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna and Rajshahi in Bangladesh. BYETS will also support 50 private sector employers in the AP and RMG sectors to adopt Swisscontact’s proven workplace-based training (WBT) model. 

The interventions of the project are expected to improve capacity of TSPs to deliver market-driven training and job placement services to job-seeking youth and enable them to offer customised entrepreneurship development support to youth seeking self-employment opportunities.

BYETS programme is looking for consultancy firms to conduct a Sectoral assessment of its Agro-Processing and ICT interventions.

Duration of the assignment: The assignment will be completed and delivered in no more than 45 days within the period - December 2022 to January 2023.

Programme locations: Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayangonj, Khulna, Jessore, Shatkhira, Rajshahi and Chattgram.

Please find the detailed ToR and proposal outline in the following links:   (Click here).

Interested firms should submit the following documents:

  • Main proposal document (Ref to ToR)
  • TIN Certificate, BIN (if Any)
  • Trade Lisence (Updated)
  • A signed statement testifying that all information
  • contained within the proposal is correct and true.

Both hard and soft copies of the propsal must be submitted (Financial and Technical proposal seperately) to the following email address:

For soft copy: bd.byets@swisscontact.org

For hard copy:

Swisscontact Bangladesh,

The Building Youth Employability through Skills (BYETS), House 28, Road 43, Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212 by 13 December 2022, addressing to:

Manager-Business Administration,

The Building Youth Employability through Skills (BYETS),Swisscontact

Note: Please mention “BYETS Sectoral Assessment” on the top of the email subject line and top of the envelope.      

No late submission will be accepted.

BYETS programme reserves the right to accept or reject any of all proposal without assigning any reason whatsoever. Please note that if any application does not meet all the above eligibility criteria, the application will be disqualified without further evaluation.