KAZAKHSTAN
EDUCATION MODERNIZATION PROJECT
Loan No. 8709-KZ
Assignment Title: Enhancing Human Capacity to Support Inclusive Education
Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan): KZEMP/QCBS-09
The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has received financing from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (hereinafter – the World Bank) toward the cost of the Education Modernization Project (hereinafter – the Project).
Project’s objective is to improve quality and equity in primary and secondary education, particularly in rural and disadvantaged schools. The executive agency is the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter – MoE).
MoE intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services for enhancing human capacity to support inclusive education.
The consulting services (“the Services”) are aimed at increasing access and equity in education, in particular, in rural and disadvantaged schools; provision of correctional support for children with SEN in inclusive education through the development and implementation of training courses program for teachers and specialists for effective psychological and pedagogical support of children with various types of disorders, including with ASD.
Expected duration of assignment: 16 months (duration of the assignment can be changed depending on the procurement procedures and signing of the contract) from the date of Contract signing.)
Scope of work includes the development and implementation of training programs: on psychological and pedagogical support and correctional support of children with SEN in studying in mainstream classes and basic course of applied behavior analysis (ABA); the first level (RBT or IBP) of Applied Behavior Analysis - ABA, the ADOS-2 early diagnosis methodology and other advanced methods. It also includes the development of a mechanism and criteria for selecting course participants for ABA training.
Within the framework of the assignment it is planned to train more than 230 teachers and specialists (at least 130 of them from rural areas) with the provision of certificates of completion of the course of psychological and pedagogical support of children with SEN, the basic course of applied behavior analysis - ABA for 108 - hour program; at least 50 teachers - psychologists in applied behavior analysis (not lower than RBT or IBP qualification), ADOS-2 early diagnosis method and other advanced methods of correctional work with the issuance of an international certificate upon completion of the course.
Deliverables:
The Consultant must provide the following documents:
MoE (“Client”) invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services (but not biographical details of individual experts).
The shortlisting criteria are:
Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by the WB Borrowers of January 2011 revised on July 2014 (hereinafter – Consultant Guidelines), setting forth the World Bank policy on conflict of interest.
Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. The type of association must be clearly stated in the expression of interest. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.
Consultants will be selected through the Quality and Cost Based Selection method in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Consultant Guidelines.
Expressions of interest signed by authorized manager in the PDF format must be submitted to the e-mail: n.kaulanova@eduproject.kz or to the address below by the deadline of October 17, 2022
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Education Modernization Project Management Unit
Attn: Mrs. Nuriya Kaulanova, PMU Procurement Specialist
Office 1004, 10th floor, Kazyna Towers Business Center,
10 Mangilik El ave., Nur-Sultan city
For additional information, please, contact Project Management Unit
by e-mail: n.kaulanova@eduproject.kz or tel: +7 7172 645 796
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Project References, present experiences in similar geographic areas.
- Describe standard policies, procedures, and practices that your entity has to assure quality interaction with clients and outputs. Please state if your company is ISO certified.
- How your firm/consortium handles complaints concerning the performance of experts or quality of the reports submitted for previous and future assignments? What internal controls are in place to address and resolve complaints.
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We, the undersigned, certify to the best of our knowledge and belief:
- We have read the advertisement, including the terms of reference (TOR), for this assignment (YES/NO)
- Neither the consulting firm nor its JV member or sub-consultant or any of its experts prepared the TOR for this activity (YES/NO)
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- Ensuing assignment resulting from our work product under this assignment, our firm, JV member or sub-consultant, and the expert(s) will be disqualified from short-listing and participation in the assignment.
- The lead entity and JV member or sub-consultant are NOT currently sanctioned by or other IDBs. Neither the consulting firm nor the JV member or sub-consultant has ever been convicted of an integrity-related offense or crime related to theft, corruption, fraud, collusion or coercion.