Published Date: 30 Sep, 2024

GUK is hiring consulting firm to develop a mobile application for Poultry market price information and advisory services of livestock sector

“Market development of safe poultry and poultry products” a value chain development sub-project has been implementing under RMTP in different regions of Bangladesh by several partner organizations (POs). Among them ‘Gram Unnayan Karma (GUK)’ a PO of PKSF from Bogura is implementing this sub-project in Bogura (Bogura Sadar, Shajahanpur, Kahaloo, Nondigram). This sub-project launched for strengthening existing business cluster through Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), improve technologies and market linkages as well as to enhance the income of poultry farmer community.

“GUK” has taken initiative to improve technical assistance mechanism of entrepreneurs through developing an android-based advisory (weather forecasting, service provider network, advisory services etc.) and market price information-based platform for poultry supply chain actors. A consulting firm will develop this platform to understand the linkage among the poultry supply chain actors (farmer, faria, depot/arot, egg collection center, egg supplier and retailer, wholesaler, input supplier, company representatives, feed producer, feed and drug supplier, transporter, local service provider etc.) and market price collection technique of the retail and wholesale markets throughout Bangladesh. This process will act as the preliminary step to amplify the linkages among the actors of the poultry supply chain.

Objectives of the assignment:

The android application will be developed with a view to creating-

1. a communication channel among the poultry supply chain actors.
2. an advisory service-based application. Entrepreneurs will gather knowledge about different problem identification with their solution.
3. a platform to get area wise retail and wholesale market prices.
4. weather forecasting data integration to detect the season wise weather information.
5. a prediction-based data analysis platform that will predict the necessary indicators of price and weather.

Qualification and Experience of the Consulting Firm:

1. The consulting firm should have at least 6 years of experience in software project design and development.
2. Income tax assessment certificate/acknowledgement certificate; Trade license; VAT certificate; and Registration certificate;
3. List of organizational committee members/board of directors;
4. Provide bank solvency certificate along with the last 3 months' financial transaction statement from the EOI submission date;
5. Required logistics (such as computers, printers, photocopiers, etc.);
6. List of existing senior management and assignment-related professional manpower;
7. List of completed assignments during the last 3 years including one (01) successfully developing software project regarding mobile applications.
8. A brief description regarding the most expertise areas especially related to this assignment;
9. List of ongoing assignments; and
10. In the case of a Joint Venture, must have a legal agreement among the firms where the name of the leading firm needs to be mentioned. The Lead firm needs to fulfil all the above conditions.

Team Composition: The team will consist of 3 professional experts. Qualifications and competence of each expert (Software Engineer) for the assignment are given below:

1. Educational qualifications: Minimum 4 Years Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering (SE)/ Computer Science (CS)/ Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)/ IT/ Mathematics/ Physics.
2. Experiences: List of mobile application (Android/iOS) based assignments completed in the last 03 years. Freelance experiences will be considered too.

Software/application development experience in android, php frameworks like Codeigniter or Laravel, firebase, application programming interface (api) using relevant frameworks in php or others.

Other Skills: Software testing and debugging, Computer networking, Graphics, etc

For Details ToR & Application process please visit this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o0YRVPezpD3x5GXqhPTXgLklQ-XrO2BN/view?usp=sharing

For application & any other information, please feel free to contact:

Project Manager,

RMTP-Poultry Project,

Project Office, Ezaz Housing (1^st Floor), Banani, Bogura Sadar, Bogura.

Mobile: 01721903758

Deadline for this Application: 10^th October, 2024

(Please submit your application by the deadline date)