TERMS OF REFERENCE
FOR
ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Services required
Consultancy Services for the development of Architectural plans/design, Bill of Quantities, Bill of materials for 20 new girls’ school and construction/renovation of 296 twin toilets in 74 schools to be constructed in Jubaland, Southwest, Galmudug, Puntland, Hirshabelle and Benadir Regional Administration of the Federal Government of Somalia.
Supervision and monitoring of all ongoing construction works across the six states including Benadir Regional Administration.
Location
Mogadishu – Somalia
Reporting to
Chief of Party – GPE
Time input
480 working days
Background
The Federal Government of Somalia through the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education secured funding from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for Girls’ Education Accelerator (GEA) grant. CARE International is the Grant Agent for this grant. The GEA is designed to contribute to the achievement of the government priorities reform defined in the 2023 Partnership Compact, which is aligned with the priorities of the Education Sector Strategic Plan (2022-2026). The GEA grant is a three-year grant intended to enhance equitable access to quality and inclusive education in rural and urban areas by addressing supply and demand barriers, particularly those related to gender and social inclusion. The GEA program aims to address gender disparities in education sector, focusing on strengthening system capacity on gender and inclusion to boost equitable access and gender-responsive and socially inclusive practices at classroom and school management levels. The GEA will support the MOECHE and FMS MOEs to enroll an additional 41,140 vulnerable girls through various interventions.
Key objectives under outcome 1 include (i) construct 20 new girls’ schools in underserved areas with high concentration of out-of-school girls and limited or no provision of education services and (ii) provide capitation grants and special grants to maximize access for extremely vulnerable girls. For outcome 2, the grant aims to improve girls’ learning outcomes by addressing barriers including limited availability of qualified female teachers, limited teacher capacity to implement gender-responsive teaching, lack of harmonized institutional guidance on gender for teacher training and coaching, limited institutional capacity for gender-responsive teacher training and coaching and lack of policies and guidelines on school safeguarding.
Under outcome 3, the program seeks to address barriers to gender-responsive planning and policy development / implementation including limited availability of staff qualified to serve internal resources and advocates for gender and inclusion at the MOECHE/ FMS MOEs, limited capacity at FMS MOEs level for gender-responsive and inclusive education planning and rollout of the Gender and SEND & IE policies, lack of guidelines for systematic tracking of gender and inclusion in quality assurance processes, limited tracking of gender and inclusion in institutional monitoring processes and lack of consistent guidance for incorporation of gender and inclusion in EiE.
The overall program beneficiary targets include:
15,600 vulnerable out of schoolgirls in underserved areas with highest concentration of out-of-school girls and limited or no provision of education services will be enrolled through construction of 20 new schools for girls.
15,000 vulnerable out-of-school girls will be enrolled through capitation grants.
10,000 vulnerable out-of-school girls and girls affected by emergencies receiving 30-month special grants to enroll and remain in primary school.
1200 (60% girls) out-of-school children with severe disabilities attending special needs education through a 30-month special grant.
Description of the Locations
The GEA will support construction of new girls’ schools in each Federal Member state as indicated in the table below:
Evaluation Criteria
A detailed technical proposal with a detailed methodology in line with the TOR and work plan to be undertaken to fulfil the tasks mentioned in this TOR.
Updated CV detailing key qualifications of the professional team as outlined below.
Architect with MSc/BSc in Architectectural Engineering or related field with at least 3-4 years of familiarity with Auto CAD,ArchiCAD and LUMION or other rendering softwares.
Civil Engineer with MSc/BSc in Civil Engineering or related field with 3-4 years of paractical experience in construction supervision and construction management or equivalent civil works.
Surveyor with MSc/BSc in Surveying or Civil Engineering with 5 years of experience in topographic and land surveying with field expertise, workined similar role in infrastructure projects.
A Financial proposal including breakdown of the tasks to be carried out and the corresponding payments.
Interested firms are expected to submit their applications (technical and financial proposal), the profile of the company and updated CVs of individual team members along with the duly filled of the attached RFP form to som.procurement@care.org. Please indicate “Engineering Consultancy Services” as the subject heading not later than July 26, 2024
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