Establishment of the TSU Web Portal

الاتحاد الفلسطيني للهيئات المحلية - APLA

Tender Description

Request for Price Quotations (RFPQ)

RFPQ Title: “Establishment of the TSU Web Portal”

RFPQ’s Reference Code: APLA/GIZ-2022-07

Overview:

The Association of Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA) founded in 1997, APLA is an independent organization mandated to represent and lobby for the collective interests of Local Government Units (LGUs) by supporting capacity building among local governments, facilitating exchange of knowledge and best practices, and serving as vehicle for dialogue between the central government and LGUs.

Project Brief:

The Local Governance Reform Program of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ-LGRPII) is a program that aims to enhance the local government unit’s performance, through capacity development and introduction of new tools, solutions, and methodologies, or further developing the current ones, eventually this will enhance the service delivery at the LGUs. For this endeavor, LGRP continues to further support the implementation of the strategic plan and the organizational development measures for the Association of the Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA).

Additionally, GIZ - Local Governance Reform Program (LGRPII) has been providing technical assistance and support to APLA throughout its different phases. APLA intends to apply part of this grant for contracting a qualified Firm (Company) who has the needed experience and skills to carry out this assignment.

The Main Objective of The Assignment:

To Establish the Technical Support Unit (TSU) Web Portal including Design, Development, hosting, and technical support in order to achieve the following general outputs and targets among many others:

To enable the local government units (LGUs) to achieve best practice in local government.
To open access for LGUs to mainstream their experiences.
To enable the LGUs to take inputs in their under-dialogue issues.
To reflect the actions and activities which take place in local government sector in Palestine and provide information about them.
To be a reference for public visitors to view the public allowed data that must be shared among, and a local web portal that will manage the exchange of LGUs’ practices along with their peers.
To be a measure for performance indicators and statistics in LGUs.

The general requirements, technical specifications and needed services are attached to the bidding documents (Annex 1: ToR).

In this regard, APLA intends to recruit a firm or company to supply services of Establishment of the “TSU Web Portal”, based on needed requirements, specifications, and requested TORs in the bidding documents. The supplier (firm/company) should support APLA with proven experience in such fields highlighted in their offer through submitting the company/firm profile with relevant work experience and highlighting similar previous work.

RFPQ’s Conditions:

Interested eligible firms may obtain further information and inspect the bidding document through the website of APLA at (https://www.apla.ps/library).
Clarifications and technical inquiries can be obtained from the Association of Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA), TSU Manager, Abd Al Mo’men Afana: a,afana@apla.ps, +970 (2) 2960712, during office hours (Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 AM to 04:00 PM) at the address given below from 02 Oct 2022 to 16 Oct 2022.
The RFPQ’s documents in English may be downloaded from the APLA website (https://www.apla.ps/library), filled, stamped, and submitted by interested firms/companies
Offers must be hand-submitted in a sealed envelope and delivered to Maria Bairat, the Accountant and Procurement Coordinator at the address below on or before 3:00 PM. of 16 Oct 2022. Late offers will be rejected. Electronic offers will not be permitted.
The prices must be in (Shekel). Grant is VAT exempted; bidders have to price with zero VAT.
Offers shall be valid for a period of 30 days after offers’ submission deadline.
Publishing and advertising fees of the RFPQ on who wins the tender.
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