EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)

TO CONDUCT MARKET ORIENTED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

IN THE RMG AND CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
UNDER

SUDOKKHO,
THE SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME IN BANGLADESH (SEP-B)

House # 05 (3rd floor), Road # 10,

Baridhara, Dhaka 1212

Duration: From (Month and Year) to (Month and Year)

Submitted by
Name of Proponent / Organisation:
Postal Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
Website:

Primary Contact Person

Name:
Designation:
Telephone:
Email:

Date of Submission: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Please ensure that you have read and understood the Terms of Reference (ToR)
before completing this Expression of Interest (EOI) template.

I. Information on applicant {Maximum 3-4 pages}

1. Legal status of your organisation/company (registration under Companies Act or

Trade Licence) with year of establishment.

Please provide copies of the following documents as attachments to the EOI.

Attachment 1 - Profile of your training institute.
Attachment 2 - Copy of valid registration certificate of the organization/ company or
institute i.e. certificate of incorporation, trade licence etc.
Attachment 3 - Evidence of official bank account of your organization i.e. a bank
certificate from the bank.
Attachment 4 - Copy of VAT and/or TIN registration certificate1.
Attachment 5 - Copy of external audit report, if any, or financial statements of the last
two years.

Please mention if your organisation is operating under the rules and regulations of
Non-Government Organisation (NGO)s in Bangladesh.

2. Goals and Objectives of your organisation.

3. Please answer the following questions briefly:

- Why are you in skills training business?
- What is your vision about training institute?
- Where were you successful?
- Is your training institute making profit from the skills training business?
- What are your problems to run the skills training business?
- What is your plan to invest in skills training business to promote your training
institute and become sustainable and credible in the skills training market of
Bangladesh?

4. Main working location (City/ Upazila/ District).

5. Main working experience, in terms of skills development, and total number of trainees
trained to date; please classify under each of the Garment and Construction sector,
and by occupation as per the table provided below.

# Name of Training Secto Number of people trained Number of

training/ hours r people
2014 2015 2016 Total
occupation employed
so far after
the training
M F M F M F M F

1 In case of no VAT or TIN registration, the PTPs can still apply for this EOI but the contract with such PTPs will
be made only after having TIN and/or VAT registration.
 6. Do you have any donor funded project? If yes, please describe about the project,
donor and the activities under the project.

7. Are you required to have audits undertaken? If yes, please submit the audit reports
for the last two years.

8. What is the current annual revenue through Training fees from your current training
centre? Please provide the information as indicated in table below:
# Name of Training fee collected Training fee collected Training fee collected
training/ from trainees from Industry (if any) from donor agencies
occupation (BDT)
(BDT) (BDT)
2015 2016 Total 2015 2016 Total 2015 2016 Total

II. Initial concept to deliver Market Oriented Skills Training {Maximum 3-4 pages}

1. What is the training concept and activities which you would propose to carry out; please
classify under each of the Garment and Construction sectors, and by occupation.

Also, fill up the following table for the proposed training courses that can be conducted within
next two years (Please refer to the TOR for the list of occupations):

# Name of Trainin Sector Number of people to be trained Address

trainings/ g hours of
occupation Year 1 (2017-18) Year 2 (2018-19) Training
Male Female Total Male Female Total Venue

GRAND TOTAL

2. What are your existing training facilities training centre(s), training equipment, number
of instructors, number of trainees currently enrolled (by occupation) to carry out your
proposed activities? Please provide the information in the following table.

Name of Maximum Number of Number of Lab/Workshop/class

the number of trainees currently instructors room available for
training/ trainees can be enrolled/batch the training
occupation enrolled per
batch
3. Why have your organization proposed above training courses and where are the job
opportunities for the training graduates. Please explain.

4. How would you ensure that the trainees can be placed in employment? Please provide
the names and addresses of the potential employers that you are working with or
want to collaborate with them. Evidence of signed MOU, if any, with the employer
organizations can be attached as annexes.

5. What experience do you have in linking trainees with employers, for job placement?

6. Who are your proposed target trainee beneficiaries? How will you ensure a high
proportion of women, poor and disadvantaged groups?

7. Proposed location(s) of the training course (City/ Upazila /District) and rationale for
selecting these locations.

8. Please list the name of donor/donor funded projects, if any, that you are currently
working with to implement the training course.

III. Resources required to implement training course {Maximum 1page}

Please indicate what kind of resources will your training institute require to implement the
training course?

Please provide following information for the proposed training to be conducted in

collaboration with Sudokkho:

# Name of Training Training % of Training % of Training % of Training Remark:

training/ hours cost/fee fee to be fee to be fee to be Indicate the
occupation generated/coll generated from generated name(s) of
(BDT)
ected from industry/emplo from any other
trainee yer other source funding
source if
any

Total

IV. Capacity of the Organisation {Maximum 1 page}

1. What are the gaps in capacity and available training tools and equipment, which you feel
your organisation currently has? What kind of technical supports would you like to get
from Sudokkho to deliver quality skills training?
 Criteria for evaluating the Expression of Interest(EOI):
EOI will be evaluated in a two-step process, as follows:
Step 1: Determining that applicant and the Expression of Interest(EOI) is eligible for SEP-B
funding by considering the following two aspects.
1. Is the applicant eligible to receive Sudokkho funding? (Being a legitimate for-profit
organisation with valid and current registration under the Companies Act or with a
Trade Licence, and not operating under the auspices of an NGO).

Step 2: If the answers to the above aspect are positive, then the EOI will be evaluated
according to the following criteria.

1. Relevance of EOI Maximum score 30

How well does the Project contribute to the log frame objectives?

Does the Project fit with the current SEP-B context and emerging priorities?

2. Quality of EOI Maximum score 25

Does the EOI clearly and explain about skills development and post-training
employment and provide an appropriate response?
How realistic are the proposed activities?

3. Gender and Social Inclusion Maximum score 15

Does the EOI meet the requirements of Sudokkho in terms of Gender Equality &
Social Inclusion?

4. Capacity and facilities to conduct training Maximum score 20

What training facilities are available? Are the facilities sufficient to carry out the
proposed activities based on the TOR?

5. Resources: Maximum score 10

How realistic is the resources indicated by PTP; indicative cost to the proposed
training, and generation of fee from trainees and industries?