GOAL Early Market Engagement for Khilo aur Barho Programme

1. OFFICIAL Khilo aur Barho - Service Delivery Girls and Out of School Children: Action for Learning (GOAL) Early Market Engagement 19thMarch 2024 13:30 to 15:00hrs Pakistan Standard Time OFFICIAL

2. OFFICIAL Agenda Section Presented by Welcome and introductions Tanya Zebroff, SRO GOAL GOAL programme overview and current progress Overview of Khilo aur Barho Statement of Requirement Overview of Evaluation Criteria Q&A Sohail Wajid Zainab Iqbal Sohail Wajid All 2 OFFICIAL

3. OFFICIAL Welcome to the EME for Khilo aur Barho – GOAL Service Delivery We will be starting shortly Event protocol 1. This session will be recorded. 2.All participants should ensure they remain muted unless invited to speak. 3. To help relieve bandwidth issues, all participants should turn off their videos. 4. Copies of the slides have been provided in advance 5. Participants wishing to comment use the chat bar 6.We encourage you to like/upvote   questions raised to help identify level of interest 7. Please note that questions will only be addressed after presentation 3 OFFICIAL

4. OFFICIAL Welcome! FCDO team: Mazhar Siraj, Education Team Leader, BHC Islamabad • Tanya Zebroff, Senior Responsible Owner (SRO), BHC Islamabad • Zainab Iqbal, Lead Education Advisor , GOAL, BHC Islamabad • Sohail Wajid, Programme Responsible Owner (PRO), BHC Islamabad • Cyra Syed, programme Manager, BHC Islamabad • Naeem Afzal, Commercial Adviser, BHC Islamabad • Rhona McDonald, Commercial Delivery Manager for Afghanistan and Pakistan Directorate • 4 OFFICIAL

5. OFFICIAL Programme overview GOAL aims to increase access to education for girls and marginalised children and improve teaching quality and learning outcomes at the provincial level for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. It aims to deliver these outcomes through five outputs; 1. Reduced barriers and schooling costs for girls and marginalised children 2. Increased awareness and prioritisation of education 3. Improved teacher knowledge, skills and classroom practice, 4. Learning facilitated through quality (teaching learning) resources and guided by assessment, 5. Improved planning and management at the school, district and provincial level Budget : £130 million Timeframe: Five years from 2022/23 – Dec 2027 Geography: Punjab with focus on South Punjab & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with focus on NMDs 5 OFFICIAL

6. OFFICIAL Components and Status Technical Assistance (TA): TA to the Governments of KP and Punjab aims to strengthen the education systems for delivery of quality education services by supporting government-led basic education sector reforms, testing solutions at scale, and demonstrating their impact and potential for scale up. TA support is delivered in two phases: A bridging TA is in place and being implemented, while procurement of a long-term TA is at advanced stages with a launch date of August 2024 Service Delivery (SD): Overall SD aims at increasing access and improving learning outcomes, especially for girls and marginalised children, by supporting 250,000 children with enrolment and retention and supporting an additional ~150,000 girls to read by age 10 in KP and Punjab Financial Aid (FA): FA is aimed at supporting evidence based and sustainable interventions on inclusion, enrolment and retention of marginalised children in primary schools especially girls and Children with Disabilities. With scoping work underway on this component; it is expected to be launched later in 2024. Third Party Monitoring and Evaluation: under the three GOAL components. Independent Monitoring & Evalution of results achieved 6 OFFICIAL

7. OFFICIAL GOAL Active Projects Project Title: Bringing Children Back to School (Floods Pivot under the service delivery component) Budget: £3.5 million Timeframe: January 2023 – May 2024 Implementing Partner: Rural Support Programmes Network Intervention Districts: Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur in South Punjab, Mohmand, Khyber, and Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)). 7 OFFICIAL

8. OFFICIAL GOAL Active Projects Project Title: Bridging Technical Assistance for Governments (B-TAG) (under the Technical Assistance component) Budget: £ 1.65 m Timeframe: June 2023 – June 2024 Implementing Partner: Institute of Science and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS, PAMS and AKU- IED) Intervention Provinces: KP and Punjab with focus on South Punjab and NMDs. 8 OFFICIAL

9. OFFICIAL Overview of Khilo aur Barho Objective: To remove barriers and improve access to education for girls and marginalised children in KP and Punjab. Budget: Up to £20 million, with at least £5m of this earmarked for Newly Merged Districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Duration: 36 months to Sept 2027 Expected Results: At least 100,000 girls and marginalised children supported to enrol and stay in school and at least an additional 150,000 girls supported to read by age 10. Target Population: Girls and marginalised children aged 5-16 years. Children with special education needs and disabilities, transgender identities, minority religions, living in disadvantaged areas, working children and Out of School Children (OOSC) 9 OFFICIAL

10. OFFICIAL Thematic focus and potential interventions • Improving Foundational Learning for children in and out of school through accelerated/alternative learning programmes (ALP), and remediation. Improving reading and maths skills of children. • Sensitising school administration, parent-teacher councils/school management committees, teachers, and students to make school culture safer and more tolerant/inclusive to ensure safeguarding principles. • Changing perceptions around children from marginalised groups including girls, minority religions, khwaja-sera (trans) communities, and children with disabilities.. • Remediation and learning support to religious minority communities. • Enhancing Education through community and parental engagement. • Building student leadership and long-term vision for their learning and success. • Provision of specialised support to children with disabilities to enrol and stay in school. • Addressing learning disabilities to promote inclusive education. • Piloting school-based health promotion activities to support enrolment and improved learning outcomes • 10 OFFICIAL

11. OFFICIAL Procurement Timelines (tentative) Tentative Dates 19/03/2024 Activity Early Market Engagement 26/03/2024 EME Q&A note shared with participants Deadline to submit proposals Proposals assessment Moderation Meeting 30/04/2024 01/05/2024 16/05/2024 20/05/2024 Selection of the Successful Partner Internal Approvals Due Diligence process starts on lead implementing partner Signing of Grant Letter 05/06/2024 10/06/2024 02/08/2024 Procurement Process Stage i- Minimum Qualification Criteria All participating organisations must “Pass” all criteria’s’ in order to qualify for the submission of technical and financial proposal. • Stage ii- Technical & Financial Evaluation Criteria • Please use the templates for drafting Technical and Financial bids. Bids in other formats will not be entertained. • A Technical Evaluation panel with technical and programme management expertise will evaluate the technical bids and a separate team will evaluate the financial bids following the criteria shared with the SOR. • Only final scoring of bids shall be shared with organisations. No other feedback will be provided. 11 OFFICIAL

12. OFFICIAL Minimum Criteria Respon se Comments Sr. No Pre-Qualification Criteria Are you as the Lead Partner along with your consortium members/downstream partners authorised to operate within Pakistan? a) Yes If No, please do not proceed further. b) No If yes, please provide proof, including for proposed downstream partners (Registration Document; No Objection Certificate (NoC) etc. If the registration is in renewal process, please mention) If No, please do not proceed further. 1 2 Do you as the Lead Partner have strong experience managing a grant programme of £10m or above? a) Yes b) No If yes, please provide proof (contracts, letter of understanding, etc.) of partnership and terms. Responses should include annual spending amount. Optional – PKR equivalents managed and impact of exchange rate depreciation/inflation. If No, please do not proceed further. 3 Are you willing to sign an Accountable Grant Arrangement with FCDO? a) Yes b) No 12 OFFICIAL

13. OFFICIAL Minimum Criteria Response Comments Sr. No Pre-Qualification Criteria 4 Do you have audited financial statements from last 5 years? a) Yes If No, please do not proceed further. b) No If yes, please share audit statements of last three years. 5 Do you and/or consortium partners have experience of designing and implementing direct service delivery in education, focussed on girls and the most marginalised children, including robust financial management of programme budgets in Pakistan? a) Yes If no, please do not proceed further. b) No If yes, please share the project details i.e., project name, project scope and duration, donor agency etc. 6 Do you or a consortium partner have experience of designing and implementing robust Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Frameworks? a) Yes If yes; please share a two-pager covering summary of MEL frameworks along links to project/programmes briefs. b) No If no, please share a 3-page plan on how your organisation is prepared to do this and what resources you will bring on to do so. (Provide an example(s) (if any) where the organisation used this delivery modality) 7 BHC Islamabad prefers payment by results delivery modalities. Will the organisation be able to link at least 30% of the budget to the delivery of mutually agreed milestones? a) Yes b) No Response should not be more than 1 page. 13 OFFICIAL

14. OFFICIAL Technical Proposal Evaluation Criteria Criteria No. Proposal Evaluation Criteria Quality and suitability of the proposal: Proposal provides strategic fit to the programme objectives as detailed in the SOR Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL): Capacity to monitor, evaluate and record lessons learned throughout duration of the programme. Approach to equity and inclusion: Demonstrate a robust approach to equity and inclusion, building in support to marginalised communities outlined in the SOR. There should be a strong focus on inclusion of girls and marginalised children, especially gender, disability, and religious minorities as well as areas with high multi-dimensional poverty (particularly Newly Merged Districts in KP and South Punjab districts) Quality and suitability of the proposed team: Sub- Total- Technical Criteria Weightage 1 30% 2 7% 3 4 8% 25% 70% 5 Financial Criteria 30% Total 100% 14 OFFICIAL

15. OFFICIAL Technical Scoring Methodology Technical Scoring Methodology Score 10 (Expert) Comment Demonstrates expert understanding of “Statement of Requirement” and proposes excellent and accurate solutions which address all requirements and which are innovative where appropriate. Responses are excellently tailored to the customer’s requirements in all aspects. Level of detail and quality of information provides the highest degree of confidence in certainty of delivery. Demonstrates a very good understanding of the majority of issues relating to delivery of the “Statement of Requirements”. Responses are relevantly tailored to the customer’s requirements in the majority of aspects. Provides sufficient detail and quality of information to give a strong level of confidence that they will deliver. Demonstrates a good understanding of many of the issues relating to the delivery of the “Statement of Requirements”. Responses are reasonably tailored to the customer’s requirements for many of the of aspects. Provides a good level of detail and quality of information to give a good level of confidence that they will deliver. 4 (Satisfactory) Demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of some of the issues relating to delivery of the “Statement of Requirements”. Only some appetite to tailor to customers requirements where required. Provides only some level of detail and quality of information to give only some level of confidence they will be able to deliver. 2 (Unsatisfactory) appetite to tailor to the customers requirements where required. Generally, an unsatisfactory and a low level of quality information and detail leading to a low level of confidence that they will deliver. 0 (Fail) Complete failure to address all material requirements of the “Statement of Requirements”. No tailoring of responses to meet customer requirements. No quality responses providing no confidence that they will deliver. 8 (Very Good) 6 (Good) Demonstrates a poor understanding of the issues relating to delivery of the “Statement of Requirements”. Poor 15 OFFICIAL

16. OFFICIAL Questions 1. In the minimum criteria document, point #2 describes that lead organization must have 10 mil GBP grants management and implementation experience. Is it concerned with managing 10 mil GBP grant only in Pakistan or else BHC will consider the global portfolio? A. BHC will consider Global portfolio 2. What is the difference between Terms of Reference and Statement of Requirements? A. TORS are more prescriptive on the scope and deliverables and commonly used for commercial procurements. Statement of Requirement (SOR) provide scope through the overall objective and results expected. 3. What is an Accountable Grant (AG)? A. The AG are the funding arrangements which we sign with Not for Profit Organisations. 4. Which currency shall be used for signing the grant? A. We will sign the AG with the lead consortium partner in UK£. All funds disbursed and financial reporting will also be in UK£s. It is up to the lead partner to decide which currency they choose to use for contracts/agreements with their downstream partners. 5. Can partners request for release of funds in advance? A. FCDO does not release funds in advance of need. Our preferred mode is to reimburse the actual expenditures on a quarterly basis. This is discussed and finalised at the due diligence assessment stage. 6. What if the implementing partner fails to deliver the agreed output linked to the release of payment? A. There shall be a grace period of one quarter from the agreed date of deliverables to cover a progress lag. Strong justification will be required and has to be agreed in advance with FCDO. 16 OFFICIAL

17. OFFICIAL Q & A Programme Team to respond to questions 17 OFFICIAL