Promotion of women based Dairy FPO, ensuring milk marketing for better price realization at farmer level and development of artificial insemination technicians: RFP
Last date for submission 27th August 2023
HCL Foundation delivers the corporate social responsibility agenda of HCL Tech in India through its flagship programmes and special initiatives. It is a not-for-profit organisation that strives to contribute towards national and international development goals, bringing about lasting positive impact in the lives of people, through long-term sustainable programmes.
HCL Foundation aims to alleviate poverty and achieve inclusive growth and development. Active community engagement ensures optimal long-term gains and upward accountability. It works through Life Cycle Based, Integrated Community Development Approach with a thematic focus on Education, Health, Skill Development and Livelihood, Environment, and Disaster Risk Reduction and Response. Child protective strategies, inclusion, and gender transformative approaches remain central in all initiatives of HCL Foundation, thus ensuring comprehensive development. At present, HCL Foundation is implementing five flagship programmes, Samuday and HCLTech Grant – Rural Development programs; Uday and My Clean City – Urban Development programmes; Harit – Environment Action program and four special initiatives – Power of One, Sports for Change, Academy and My E-Haat.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (HCLF/RFP/Samuday/Dairy/07082023)
HCL Foundation, under its flagship programme Samuday, invites proposals for “Promotion of women based Dairy FPO, ensuring milk marketing for better price realization at farmer level and development of artificial insemination technicians” in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh.
RFP released by HCL Foundation
RFP Code HCLF/RFP/Samuday/Dairy/07082023
Programme Name Samuday
Date of Posting 7 th August 2023
Last date for submission 27th August 2023
Location Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh
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VISION: To be the source code for sustainable socio-economic and environmental development.
MISSION: Nurture clean, green and healthy communities where everyone is empowered and equipped to reach their full potential in partnership with its employees, communities and stakeholders, while promoting volunteerism and establishing international standards of strategic planning, execution and measuring impact.
Link HCLFoundation: https://youtu.be/EkxVM856rHk Samuday
Samuday, a flagship programme of HCLFoundation, is an outcome of HCL’s commitment to uplift rural India. Established in 2015, Samuday intends to develop a sustainable, scalable, and replicable model – a source code for the economic and social development of rural areas in partnership with state governments, local communities, NGOs, knowledge institutions, and allied partners. This is being done through optimal interventions across Agriculture, Education, Environment, Health, Livelihood, and WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) in selected villages.
The program is designed to help the local people identify challenges, co-create solutions, and then implement the same on their own with professional support from team Samuday, thereby, lending the dimension of sustainability and ownership to the vision of development. Currently implemented in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh and Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, HCL Samuday is operational in 619 Gram Panchayats of the country.
Request for Proposal
1. Description of RFP Through Samuday’s Dairy Development project, we have been able to create an alternative source of livelihood and increase the income of marginalized milk producers in 280 villages of Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh. Presently 280 dairy associations are functional, benefiting more than 20,000 farmers and collecting an average of 60,000 litres milk per day, through forward linkage partnership with industry leaders.
We are also working on different aspects of dairy farming through farmer trainings on best practices in dairy management; veterinary camps like preventive health camp, fertility improvement program (FIP) camps, feed and fodder demonstration etc.
The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to appoint an institution / social sector organization, which would undertake all the activities pertaining to holistic dairy development, promotion of women, based dairy FPO, developing proper marketing mechanism for better price realization at farmer level, strengthening the backward linkages activities like training of farmers and artificial insemination services through volunteer development.
2. Scope of Work
RFP focuses on establishing women based dairy FPO and creating a network of AI technician with following objectives:
- To promote and strengthen women based dairy community institutions (new or already existing FPOs)
- To create a network of social capital related to dairy development like volunteers, AI technician
- Develop a milk marketing channel, contributing to proper payment realization at farmers’ level
Target: 8000 women dairy farmers and 15 AI technicians
3. Project Brief In order to create a proper ecosystem embedding backward and forward linkages, the project will focus on following activities mentioned in Table 1
Project duration: 24 months
Geography: Project area of HCLF in 3 blocks of Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh
4. Who Can Apply
- Not-for-Profit organizations with valid 12A & 80G certificates are preferred but the application is also open to Business firms / For-Profit organizations.
- The organization should have prior expertise in the thematic area of the work.
5. Submission Details
Interested organizations may submit a proposed plan as per their strengths and expertise. Proposals should also include a Gantt chart, a theory of change (ToC), a log frame with comprehensive list of activities proposed in the scope of work, and a tentative timeline. Applicants are requested to share their proposals along with a duly filled-in Budget Costing Excel sheet as per the below-mentioned submission details and deadlines.
Budget: The budget must be submitted as per the attached template. Please provide a detailed breakdown of each line item and all sub-line item costs with clear budget explanatory notes. Any taxes, including service tax, sales tax, value-added tax, or any other applicable tax, duty, cess, or levies, must be quoted separately from the price of goods and services. The terms of payment, along with a tentative timeline, must also be attached.
5. Gantt Chart: The Gantt Chart must detail the comprehensive list of activities proposed in the proposal along with a tentative timeline. Kindly provide an LFA/ToC with key objectives, activities, inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact & a risk assessment and mitigation plan. The proposal must include indicators that will be used for assessing impact.
Applicants are requested to duly fill in all Annexures and share with the proposal. Submission Details & Deadlines
Please submit proposals (1. Technical & Financials/Budget) by 27-08-2023 as per mail to:
1. Technical proposal with organizational details (as per template) to be submitted to – prasadp@hcl.com marking dinman.n@hcl.com in cc.
2. Financial/proposed budget (as per annexure II) to be submitted to – barua.d@hcl.com
- Please send in your submissions with Subject Line in the given format: HCLF/ Samuday/ RFP/ Dairy Training Project/_<Name of Organisation>
- All enquiries regarding this RFP should be made before 15-08-2023 via email to prasadp@hcl.com & dinman.n@hcl.com
- Proposals received after the due date will be liable for rejection.
- Proposal must include all the components mentioned above.
- We will adhere to strict activities-timeline listed as per Annexure
- 01. We encourage organizations to submit proposal and deliver the said work keeping the defined timelines as per the HCLF’s Gant Chart in Annexure 01.
Please note:
1. HCLFoundation would/could engage more than one NGO/partner in project execution with expertise in different components to operationalize the project on-ground through a convergence-based model.
2. Child Safeguarding: We hold ourselves accountable to children. Adherence to comply with HCLFoundation’s Child Protection Policy and procedures with respect to child safeguarding is non-negotiable. A range of pre-employment checks can be undertaken in conformity with HCLFoundation’s Child Protection Policy.
