Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (MahaSTRIDE) Operation

 

Tender Notice No.: MITRA/C.R. 76/2024

 

COUNTRY: INDIA

 

NAME OF PROJECT: Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (MahaSTRIDE)

 

Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: Yet to be received.

 

Assignment Title: Hiring Implementation Resources in District Strategic Unit for realizing of District Strategic Plan, PM Gatishakti, PM LiFE and recommendations of Economic Advisory Council (EAC) across districts by leveraging technology to achieve Maharashtra's $ 1 Trillion economic target by FY'28

 

Market Approach: International Competitive Procurement

 

Date of Issue: 09/08/2024

 

Consultancy Services Package A (Division – Konkan) Consultancy Services Package B (Division – Pune) Consultancy Services Package C (Division – Nashik) Consultancy Services Package D (Division – Aurangabad) Consultancy Services Package E (Division – Nagpur) Consultancy Services Package F (Division – Amravati)

 

Background:

 

The Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) has applied for financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the implementing Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (MahaSTRIDE), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for procurement of consultancy services titled “ Hiring Implementation Resources in District Strategic Unit for realizing of District Strategic Plan, PM Gatishakti, PM LiFE and recommendations of Economic Advisory Council (EAC) across districts by leveraging technology to achieve Maharashtra's $ 1 Trillion economic target by FY'28” for MahaSTRIDE”.

 

The Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (“MahaSTRIDE”) operation aims to support the implementation of the One-Trillion Dollar (OTD) vision by addressing three challenges:

 

1. districts face capability gaps that constrain planning, convergence, and coordination for driving growth,
2. gaps in data availability hamper evidence-based decision-making, and
3. the delivery of government services for enabling private capital mobilization needs strengthening.

 

The services would require setting up support ecosystem in divisions and districts for implementation of key initiatives related to EAC recommendation driven District Strategy Plan, PM Gati Shakti, PM LiFE initiate and evidence-based policy and planning tool.

 

The consultants will be contracted to support the districts for a period of 5 years. The contract will be initially awarded for 3 years. It will be reviewed at the end of 3 years to assess the satisfactory performance before extending it for the next 2 years. The contract is expected to start by November 2024.

 

The total resource requirements for the DSUs have been split into six packages based on the revenue divisions of Maharashtra. Implementation resources shall be hired under each package to support the DSUs in the districts of the respective divisions, including an additional deployment at the divisional headquarters. This is a common REOI for all six packages which will conclude with six shortlists of consultants – one shortlist for each package. Each package will have a maximum shortlist of 8 consultants. In case of more than 8 consultants, the shortlist will be based on higher turnover. The follow-on RFPs would be issued separately for each Package. Listed here are the six packages:

 

1. 1. Consultancy Services Package A (Division – Konkan)
   2. Consultancy Services Package B (Division – Pune)
   3. Consultancy Services Package C (Division – Nashik)
   4. Consultancy Services Package D (Division – Aurangabad)
   5. Consultancy Services Package E (Division – Nagpur)
   6. Consultancy Services Package F (Division – Amravati)

 

The Maharashtra Institution for Transformation now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services mentioned in the TOR. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

 

Instructions to Interested Consultants

 

The Expression of Interest is to be submitted in the manner prescribed below:-

 

All information as detailed below is to be submitted in soft copies separately for each of the Package. The Formats are annexed to this document.

 

1. Applicant’s Expression of Interest as per Format-1.
2. Organizational Contact Details of Single Entity and in case of JV applicant as per Format-2.

 

1. Financial strength of the applicant as per Format-3.
2. Experience of the applicant as per Format-4.
3. Additional information as per Format-5.
4. Consortium Agreement as per Format – 6.
5. Power of Attorney in favour of Authorized Signatory with long and short signatures of Authorized person.

 

 

 

The Consultants are expected to examine all instructions, forms, terms and other details in the REOI document carefully. Failure to furnish complete information as mentioned in the REOI document or submission of an Expression of Interest not substantially responsive to the REOI documents in every respect will be at the Consultant’s risk and may result in rejection of the same.

 

 

Shortlisting Criteria:

 

Each EOI would be evaluated against the following Short-listing Criteria. The shortlisting criterion is mentioned below and shall be applicable for each of the 06 (six) packages. The requirement indicated at Sl. No. (2) (Financial Stability) and Sl. No. (5) (Resource Strength) shall be ascertained based on cumulative requirement based on number of packages that a Consultant intends to bid for.

 

Sr. No.	Parameters	Shortlisting Criteria	Evidence Required	Single entity	JV Applicant
1.	Business standing	Consultant must be in business for a period of at least 5 years as on the date of EoI submission	Name, address, e-mail, telephone along with a note on the Ownership and organizational structure & core business area of the     consulting firm; Copy                of Certificate       of Incorporation and Partnership Deed, if any Copy    of              any other Registration Certificate which       proves the legal identity of the Company.	Must                   meet requirement.	Must be met by Lead member

 

Sr. No.	Parameters	Shortlisting Criteria	Evidence Required	Single entity	JV Applicant
			In case of JV Applicant,       in addition to the above, a letter of intent to form a joint venture or, if the JV is already formed, a copy of the existing          JV agreement signed by every participating member which details the likely legal      structure of       and      the confirmation of joint                 and severable liability of the members of the said              joint venture. JV cannot be of more than 3 members.
2.	Financial Stability	Consultant must have an average annual turnover of more than Rs. 50 crores (for each                       package individually) during last 3 years (FY 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24).   For Example: If the Consultant intends to participate for all the six packages, it should have an average                          annual turnover of INR 600 Crores during the last	Audited financial statements for the last three financial year.                  OR Certificate from statutory auditor.	Must                      meet requirement.	Must be jointly met by the JV.

 

Sr. No.	Parameters	Shortlisting Criteria	Evidence Required	Single entity	JV Applicant
		three years (FY 2021- 22, 2022-23, 2023- 24).
3.	Net Worth	Consultant must have a positive net worth as at the close of the last financial year, i.e. (as of March 31, 2024).	Certificate from Statutory Auditor certifying the net worth as of March 31, 2023	Must                      meet requirement.	Each member must meet requirement
4.	Firm Experience
A.	Firm Experience Criteria -	Consultant must have experience              of successfully completing 02 (two) assignments in India for              Ministry         / Department                            / Undertaking of Govt. of India/                State Government in India, within the last 7 years as on the date of EoI submission.                    Each assignment                  should involve the scope of advising, monitoring and              providing consultancy services in i.) public sector reforms      (including public                      financial management reforms, improvements         in service           delivery, capacity building and e-governance reforms)                 (ii.) statistical reforms (iii.) data analytics with value of at least INR 5 Cr or above in each assignment.	Description       of experience of Consultant to be submitted in Form Tech I supported by Work Order/ Copy                   of agreement/ Contract Document/ Completion Certificate	Must                      meet requirement.	Must be met jointly by JV
B.		In addition to the assignments above, the Consultant must demonstrate		Must meet requirement.	Must be met jointly by JV

 

Sr. No.	Parameters	Shortlisting Criteria	Evidence Required	Single entity	JV Applicant
		experience                                   of execution of advisory /     PMU     /     PMC projects with the World Bank/ other MDBs or funded by the World Bank/ other MDBs with minimum project value of INR 2 Cr during last 7 years
5.	Resource Strength	Consultant       should have at least 100 full time resources with experience                in advisory/ consulting services as on 31st July 2024. Note: Consultant(s) intending to bid for more than one package                              must demonstrate full-time employment of an additional       100 resources for every additional package. Example:                  A Consultant bidding for all six packages must have 600 full- time employees in the areas         mentioned above.	Certificate     from the HR/Authorized Signatory on the firm's     letterhead with names of the consulting resources.	Must                      meet requirement.	Must be met jointly by JV

 

Consultant may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture or sub-consultant 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. The nature of association, must be clearly mentioned in the Expression of Interest. Also, one company can only be a part of any one JV. In case of JV, a letter of intent to form a joint venture or, if the JV is already formed, a copy of the existing JV agreement signed by every participating member which details the likely legal structure of and the confirmation of joint and severable liability of the members of the said joint venture shall be submitted along with the EOI.

 

Interested Consultants may apply for more than one Package. Consultant indicating interest for multiple packages shall be assessed jointly on cumulative requirement of Financial Turnover Criteria (2) and Resource strength (5) as listed above under each package. For example, the average annual turnover requirement and Resource strength shall be as below:

 

• INR 50 crore and 100 full time resources for 1 package
• INR 100 crore and 200 full time resources for 2 packages
• INR 150 crore and 300 full time resources for 3 packages
• INR 200 crore and 400 full time resources for 4 packages
• INR 250 crore and 500full time resources for 5 packages
• INR 300 crore and 600 full time resources for 6 packages

 

Please also note that staffing shall be mutually exclusive across these applications. Also note that separate resources shall be deployed at each district/division, and they shall be located in the district/divisional headquarters (as per contract type) during the consultancy period. Consultants need to apply for the number of packages keeping in view the requirement of deployment of resource and should clearly indicate the priority order of packages for short listing purpose. Key Experts will not be evaluated at the short-listing stage.

 

Screening of EOIs shall be carried out as per eligibility conditions mentioned in this document and based on verification of documents submitted.

 

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, Revised November 2017, August 2018, November 2020 and September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest, eligibility and disqualification.

 

EOI will be evaluated using short listing criteria for each package. The Shortlist shall include number of eligible firms in accordance with the Bank’s Procurement Regulation. The Shortlisted applicants shall be required, at a later stage, to submit a separate Proposal comprising Technical and Financial Proposals. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality-cum- Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method, set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations. Each package will have a maximum shortlist of 8 consultants. In case of more than 8 consultants, the shortlist will be based on turnover. The follow-on RFPs would be issued separately for each Package.

 

The EOI is not an offer and is issued with no commitment. MITRA reserves the right to withdraw REOI and/or vary any part thereof at any stage before EOI submission deadline.

 

Deadline for submission of EOI

 

REOI along with TOR is available at https://mahatenders.gov.in. Corrigendum, if any, shall also be hosted at https://mahatenders.gov.in.

 

In exceptional circumstances and at its discretion, MITRA may extend the deadline for submission of EoI by issuing an amendment to be made available on the aforesaid website, in which case all rights and obligations of MITRA and the applicants previously subject to the original deadline will thereafter be subject to the deadline as extended.

 

“Interested Consultants must submit their EOIs (soft copy only), in its complete form in all respects as specified in the REOI in English language on or before 17:00 hours IST, on 23 August 2024.

 

Expressions of   interest   must   be   submitted   electronically   on the MahaTenders   portal   -

https://mahatenders.gov.in and no other means/modes of application will be accepted.

 

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours (10:00 AM to 06:00 PM):

Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA), Planning Department, GoM,

Nirmal Building, 5th floor,

Nariman Point, Madam Cama Road, Mumbai 400021

Email: joint-ceo@mahamitra.org

 

 

Instructions for interested Applicants:

1. Applicants who   wish   to   participate   in   this   EoI   process   must   register   on

https://mahatenders.gov.in and put their online submissions through the same portal.

1. To participate in online EoI process, Applicants must procure a Digital Signature Certificate (Class - II) as per Information Technology Act-2000 using which they are required to digitally sign and encrypt their electronic EoIs.
2. MITRA will not be responsible for delay in online submission due to any reason. For this, Applicants are requested to upload the complete Application well advance in time to avoid issues like slow speed, heavy traffic on website or any other unforeseen problems.
3. Applicants   are    also    advised    to    refer    “Bidders    Manual    Kit”    available    at

https://mahatenders.gov.in for further details about the e-tendering process.

 

Terms of Reference

 

1. Background

Maharashtra is India's biggest economy, having GSDP of INR 3,527,084 crores (approximately US$425 billion) in FY22-23, and GSDP per capita of INR 242,247 which is higher than India average of INR 115,7464. Only 17.3 percent of the state’s households are classified as Below Poverty Line compared with the India average of 22 percent. The state also has a relatively higher performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) than the country average. On the composite SDG India 2020-21 Index, Maharashtra is in the ‘front-runners’ category of performers with a score of 70 against the all-India score of 66.

 

However, the State’s economic growth has slowed, is marked by significant inter-district disparities, and is threatened by high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. After growing at an average real growth rate of 7.1% FY12-13 and FY16-17, the real economic growth slowed down to 4.5% and 3.9% in FY17/18 and FY18/19 respectively. There is large variation in economic growth across the 36 districts of the State, with per capita GSDP if FY19-20 ranging from US$ 966 in Nandurbar to US$3,720 in Mumbai (at constant prices).

 

To support Maharashtra in realizing its economic growth potential, the government has introduced several flagship programs and schemes. Notable among these are PM Gati Shakti, which focuses on enhancing infrastructure and streamlining logistics, and PM LiFE, which promotes sustainable development practices. These initiatives are designed to address key challenges and drive economic growth by improving connectivity, reducing logistical bottlenecks, and fostering a more sustainable and resilient economy.

 

 

PM Gati Shakti:

It was launched on October 13, 2021, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is a comprehensive initiative aimed at revolutionizing India’s infrastructure landscape. The plan, which translates to “the power of speed,” focuses on accelerating processes across multiple sectors, including roads, energy, water, and digital services. By streamlining government initiatives, prioritizing projects effectively, optimizing logistics, and synchronizing departmental efforts, PM Gati Shakti aims to create a more efficient and transparent infrastructure development process. The integration of advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence into the platform is expected to predict economic trends and infrastructure needs under various scenarios, further enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of development projects. This initiative is designed to ensure dynamic project implementation, ultimately contributing to India’s economic growth and development.

 

The impact of PM Gati Shakti on Maharashtra is expected to be significant across various fronts. In terms of infrastructure development, the initiative aims to address the challenges of congested roads and transportation systems, particularly in Mumbai, by investing in improvements to roads, railways, ports, and airports. This could alleviate traffic congestion, facilitate smoother movement of goods, and stimulate faster business growth, thereby improving the Ease of Doing Business and Ease of Living. Additionally, as a major industrial hub, Maharashtra stands to benefit from

 

enhanced infrastructure that could accelerate the movement of goods, reduce costs, and enhance competitiveness for local industries. This could attract additional investments and generate more job opportunities. Urban development projects, such as new metro systems, improved road networks, and smart city initiatives, are also expected to enhance urban living standards and improve transportation efficiency. Furthermore, PM Gati Shakti aims to bolster Maharashtra’s connectivity with neighboring states and regions through strategic infrastructure projects, fostering economic vitality and growth. Overall, PM Gati Shakti is poised to transform Maharashtra’s infrastructure landscape, driving economic development and improving the quality of life for its residents.

 

PM LiFE:

The LiFE Movement, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aims to promote an environment-conscious lifestyle among individuals and communities. It focuses on raising awareness, encouraging sustainable practices, and driving collective action towards environmental protection and conservation. By leveraging data from initiatives like PM Gati Shakti, which includes pollution control technologies and renewable energy promotion, the LiFE Movement can highlight progress and encourage further adoption of sustainable practices. Improved infrastructure under PM Gati Shakti, such as new metro systems and smart city initiatives, can enhance urban living standards. The LiFE Movement advocates for infrastructure designs that prioritize environmental sustainability, including green buildings, efficient public transport systems, and green spaces.

 

The LiFE Movement can also influence the MahaSTRIDE program by promoting environment- friendly measures while implementing Disbursement Linked Indicators. For example, designing Business Facilitation Centres (BFCs) with environmentally friendly designs. The development of the State Data Catalog and annual analytical reports promotes transparency in governance, allowing the LiFE Movement to hold stakeholders accountable for environmental commitments and track progress towards sustainable development goals. Additionally, District Management Organizations (DMOs) under PM Gati Shakti can collaborate with the LiFE Movement to integrate eco-tourism initiatives, promoting destinations that emphasize environmental conservation and cultural preservation. Analytical statistical reports provide insights into socio-economic trends and challenges, which the LiFE Movement can use to advocate for policies that align with sustainable development goals.

 

 

Economic Advisory Council (EAC):

In December 2022, Government of Maharashtra constituted established the Economic Advisory Council (EAC). This council, comprising experts from government, private sectors, and academia, submitted a report in July 2023 outlining a roadmap for Maharashtra to achieve a $1 Trillion Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) by FY28 and a $30 Trillion target by 2047. Following a Maharashtra Cabinet decision on November 17, 2023, the Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) was tasked with detailing the implementation of the EAC’s recommendations. Key sectors identified for improvement include Agro & Agro-Processing, Tourism, IT & ITeS, Industries (Textiles & Logistics), Skill Development, Energy, and Urban

 

Development. This initiative aligns with the MahaSTRIDE program, which aims to enhance institutional capabilities, services, and the data ecosystem to accelerate economic growth at the district level.

 

To facilitate the implementation of the MahaSTRIDE program, each district will have a District Strategic Unit (DSU) composed of various sector experts viz. from the Industry, Tourism, and experts on Data science/analytics. These units will assist in executing the program’s components and ensure that the EAC’s recommendations converge with the program’s objectives. These implementation resources will work with the concerned departments to align with the result areas defined in section 2 below.

 

In 2018, the Planning Department of the Government of Maharashtra (GoM) published its Vision 2030 document, aimed at promoting sustainable, balanced, and all-inclusive socio-economic growth of the State. This Vision has been further detailed through the ‘Roadmap to Becoming a OTD (One Trillion Dollar) Economy’ and the ‘Manual for Good Governance’. The roadmap identifies policies and investments required to accelerate growth over the next five years and recommends (i) capacitating districts to provide the bottom-up push to growth (ii) improving delivery of government services for providing an enabling environment for catalyzing private investments. The Manual of Good Governance advocates, inter alia, for creating a robust, reliable, and integrated data ecosystem that facilitates evidence-based policy formulation, data driven planning and close to real-time performance monitoring of schemes.

 

The World Bank Group, through the Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (“MahaSTRIDE”) operation aims to support the implementation of the OTD (One Trillion Dollar) vision by addressing three challenges –

1. 1. districts face capability gaps that constrain planning, convergence, and coordination for driving growth,
   2. gaps in data availability hamper evidence-based decision-making, and
   3. the delivery of government services for enabling private capital mobilization needs strengthening.

 

The proposed result areas, while not finalized, provide an indication of the nature of the activities, outputs and outcomes expected from the operation, and hence, are shared below.

 

Results Indicator Framework of MahaSTRIDE Operation

 

(Results Indicators highlighted in blue in below table, viz. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are DLIs, Disbursement-Linked Indicators)

 

 

 

S.N o.	Results Indicator	Baseline	Year 0 (FY 2024-25)	Year 1 (FY 2025-26)	Year 2 (FY 2026-27)	Year 3 (FY 2027-28)	Year 4 (FY 2028-29)	Year 5 (FY 2029-30)
Results Area I: Strengthen district systems for enabling growth
1	Improved	0 (DSPs prepared by			12	18	22	26 districts
	performance of	36 districts for the first			districts	districts	districts	achieve
	districts linked	time, got approved in			achieve	achieve	achieve	target score
	to	March 2024 with a 5-			target	target	target	for
	implementation	year Action Plan and			score for	score for	score for	performance
	of DSPs	first Annual Action			performa	performa	performa	conditions
		Plan for FY 2024-25)			nce	nce	nce
					condition	condition	condition
					s	s	s
2	Improved	Constrained access to	Integratio	Integratio	Launch	Increase	Increase	DSPs
	availability and	consolidated and real-	n of	n of	the	the	the	prepared,
	use of data for	time data on fund	iPAS,	scheme	integrate	number	number	updated and
	DSPs	flows and scheme	MPSIMS	MIS,	d district	of data	of data	monitored
		implementation across	and DSP	BEAMS	data	layers on	layers on	with
		sectors and	M&E	and	portal	the	the	information
		implementing entities	Dashboar	PFMS	with 20	integrate	integrate	from
		in districts	d	with	number	d district	d district	integrated
			(scheme	district	of data	data	data	district data
			MIS)	level	layers	portal by	portal by	portal
				interface		20	20
						number	number
						over Year	over Year
						2	3
3	Strengthened	State Tourism Policy	State	DMOs	Skill gap	Approval	Completi	At least 10%
	policy and	2016 currently	Tourism	operation	assessme	of 6	on of	increase in
	institutional	prevails; No	Policy	alized in	nt in the	Destinati	30% of	foreign
	framework for	destination	approved	6	6	on	skill	tourist
	tourism	management	in 2024	identified	destinatio	Manage	trainings	arrivals in
	development in	organizations (DMOs)		destinatio	ns (Note:	ment	(as	the 6
	districts	exist		ns	Baseline	Plans	detailed	destinations
					on	(DMPs)	in the 6	over Year 2
					destinatio		DMPs)
					n level
					foreign
					tourist
					arrivals
					to be
					establishe
					d)
4	Improved	No district-level socio-			Conduct	Full	Full	Full survey
	availability of	economic survey			a pilot	survey	survey	round
	socio -economic	program exists.			survey in	round	round	completed,
	data at district				6 districts	complete	complete	Report and
	level					d, Report	d, Report	data
						and data	and data	released.
						released.	released.
5	Improved	A prototype Statistical		A	Enhanced	Publicati	Publicati	Publication
	availability and	Business Register is in		Statistical	Statistical	on of	on of	of District
	use of business	development. Business		Business	Business	regular	regular	Domestic
	statistics at	statistics not available		Register	Register	business	annual	Product
	district level	at district level.		based on	(based on	demogra	(absolute	(level and
		District level economic		administr	admin,	phy	) and	change)
		indicators are		ative data	listing	series at	quarterly	using
		estimated through top-		is	and	District	(indices	outcomes
		down approach.		available	survey	level	and	business
				for use at	data) is	based on	growth	statistics
				district	available	maintaine	rates)	work
				level.	for use at	d SBR.	business	program.
					district		statistics
					level		series at
							district
							level.

 

S.N o.	Results Indicator	Baseline	Year 0 (FY 2024-25)	Year 1 (FY 2025-26)	Year 2 (FY 2026-27)	Year 3 (FY 2027-28)	Year 4 (FY 2028-29)	Year 5 (FY 2029-30)
Results Area II: Improve access for businesses to time-bound e-government services
6	Increase in	Inefficiencies in	MAITRI	Aaple	USKs	USKs	USKs	Roll-out of
	delivery	existing portals of	2.0	Sarkar	operation	operation	operation	an additional
	channels for	MAITRI and Aaple	(Phase I)	2.0 rolled	alized in	alized in	alized in	channel of
	providing	Sarkar; Limited	rolled out	out	12	12	12	service
	services to	number of channels for			districts	additiona	additonal	delivery
	businesses	delivery of services			with a	l districts	districts
					desk each	over Year	over Year
					for Aaple	2 with a	3 with a
					Sarkar	desk each	desk each
					and	for Aaple	for Aaple
					women	Sarkar	Sarkar
						and	and
						women	women
7	Increase in the	There are 119 services		All	10 new	10 new	10 new	10 new
	number of	currently available on		tourism	services	services	services	services
	online services	MAITRI portal.		G2B	onboarde	onboarde	onboarde	onboarded
	for businesses			services	d on	d on	d on	on MAITRI
				listed in	MAITRI	MAITRI	MAITRI	and notified
				Tourism	and	and	and	under MRTS
				Policy	notified	notified	notified	Act
				2024	under	under	under
				onboarde	MRTS	MRTS	MRTS
				d on	Act	Act	Act
				MAITRI
				and
				notified
				under
				MRTS
				Act
9	Identified	Need for simplification		10	10	10	10	10 services
	services where	and re-engineering of		services	services	services	services	for which
	Government	processes		for which	for which	for which	for which	GPR is
	Process Re-			GPR is	GPR is	GPR is	GPR is	completed
	engineering			complete	complete	complete	complete
	(GPR) is			d	d	d	d
	completed
9	Identified	In FY 22/23, the					90%	93%
	services	average adherence to
	delivered on	prescribed timelines
	time (%)	for services notified
		under MRTS Act was
		82%
10	Beneficiary	No mechanism exists	Methodol		First	Second	Third	Fourth
	feedback on	at present	ogy for		feedback	feedback	feedback	feedback
	quality of		gathering		report	report	report	report
	'identified'		beneficia		publicly	publicly	publicly	publicly
	services		ry		disclosed	disclosed	disclosed	disclosed
	delivered		feedback		following	following	following	following
			approved		approved	approved	approved	approved
					methodol	methodol	methodol	methodology
					ogy	ogy	ogy
11.	People using	Increase in average			At least 5	At least 5	At least 5	At least 5
1	digitally	annual growth rate for			percentag	percentag	percentag	percentage
	enabled	applications processed			e increase	e increase	e increase	increase in
	services	for Aaple Sarkar is 5%			in	in	in	beneficiaries
	(identified)	(2019-2023)			beneficia	beneficia	beneficia	for identified
					ries for	ries for	ries for	services
					identified	identified	identified	from Year 4
					services	services	services
					from	from	from
					Year 1	Year 2	Year 3

 

S.N o.	Results Indicator	Baseline	Year 0 (FY 2024-25)	Year 1 (FY 2025-26)	Year 2 (FY 2026-27)	Year 3 (FY 2027-28)	Year 4 (FY 2028-29)	Year 5 (FY 2029-30)
11.	Of which,	No baseline at present,		(Baseline	At least 5	At least 5	At least 5	At least 5
2	female	since no gender-		will get	percentag	percentag	percentag	percentage
		tracking field exists on		establishe	e increase	e increase	e increase	increase in
		MAITRI and Aaple		d)	in female	in female	in female	female
		Sarkar portals			beneficia	beneficia	beneficia	beneficiaries
					ries for	ries for	ries for	for identified
					identified	identified	identified	services
					services	services	services	from Year 4
					from	from	from
					Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
Results Area III: Strengthened state institutions for data-driven policy and decision-making
12	Strengthened	The state does not have	Governm	Operatio	Launch	Publicati	Publicati	Publication
	state data	a data policy. There is	ent	nalize the	of a State	on of	on of	of data from
	governance	no official catalogue or	Approval	State	Data	data from	data from	an additional
	architecture	inventory of state	of State	Data	Catalogu	additiona	additiona	4
		government data sets.	Data	Authority	e with	l 4	l 4	departments
		Data science	Policy	[i]	data from	departme	departme	in a machine
		capabilities are			at least 5	nts in a	nts in a	readable
		inadequate.			key	machine	machine	format over
					departme	readable	readable	year 4
					nts in a	format	format
					machine	over year	over year
					readable	2	3
					format
13	Improved use	The state data portal is		Operatio	Launch	Update	Update	Maha Data
	of data for	not updated or used.		nalize a	the Maha	existing	existing	Bank as the
	monitoring			data	Data	indicators	indicators	primary
	economic			managem	Bank	in the	in the	source for
	growth and			ent and	with at	Maha	Maha	State
	development			curation	least 50	Data	Data	Economic
				team for	key	Bank and	Bank and	Survey and/
				Maha	indicators	add 20	add 20	or State
				Data		new key	new key	Indicator
				Bank		indicators	indicators	Framework
						over year	over year
						2	3
14	Increase in	The DES mostly			Release	Release	Release	Release one
	statistical	publishes simple			one new	one new	one new	new
	outputs to	tabulation and PDF			statistical	statistical	statistical	statistical
	address	reports. Capacity to			report in	report in	report in	report in
	priorities of	undertake advanced			relevant	relevant	relevant	relevant
	DSPs (Number)	analytics is limited.			policy	policy	policy	policy area
					area with	area with	area with	with
					underlyin	underlyin	underlyin	underlying
					g data set	g data set	g data set	data set over
						over year	over year	year 4
						2	3
15	Strengthened	Constrained capacity			Approval			Commerciali
	capacity of	in MITRA to			of State			zation of at
	MITRA for	coordinate policy			Policy on			least 10
	policy making,	reforms required for			Asset			MTDC
	coordination	implementing OTD			Monetisa			properties
	and	(ONE TRILLION			tion
	implementation	DOLLAR) Roadmap
16	Natural Capital	Not producing any				1 Natural	1 Natural	1 Natural
	Accounts	Natural Capital				Capital	Capital	Capital
	produced	Accounts.				Account	Account	Account
						produced	produced	produced
							over year	over year 4
							3

 

S.N o.	Results Indicator	Baseline	Year 0 (FY 2024-25)	Year 1 (FY 2025-26)	Year 2 (FY 2026-27)	Year 3 (FY 2027-28)	Year 4 (FY 2028-29)	Year 5 (FY 2029-30)
17	Missing UNSD	Gender disaggregated			50%	40%	30%	20%
	EDGE	data is not readily
	indicators	accessible to policy
	reduced	makers and key data
		gaps exist
18	Statistical /	No systematic	Methodol	Completi	Release	Publicati	Publicati	Publication
	Evidence-base	methodology for	ogy for	on of	of	on of	on of	of report
	for Tourism	collecting & analyzing	collecting	state-	Tourism	report	report	based on
	enhanced	tourism statistics	,	wide	Statistics	based on	based on	updated
		exists; No State-wide	analyzing	survey to	report	updated	updated	tourism
		dashboard exists	&	create a	and	tourism	tourism	statistics
			updating	database	dashboar	statistics	statistics
			tourism	on	d
			statistics	tourism
			develope	statistics
			d &
			approved

 

1. Introduction and Objective(s) of the Assignment

 

Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA), Planning Department of Government of Maharashtra is intending to hire consultancy firm /firms for setting up District Strategic Units (DSUs) for effective implementation of MahaSTRIDE Program for the tenure of five years (5) years. The MahaSTRIDE Program is anchored on GoM’s roadmap to make Maharashtra a OTD Economy and the reforms set out in the Manual of Good Governance. MahaSTRIDE focuses on three results areas: (i) Results Area I (RA I) - building capacity in district administrations to plan, manage and monitor growth promoting policies and programs, (ii) Results Area II (RA II) improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government to business (G2B) services for providing an enabling environment for catalyzing private investments; and (iii) Results Area III (RA-III) - creating a robust, reliable, and integrated data ecosystem that facilitates evidence-based policy formulation, data driven planning and timely performance monitoring of services and schemes.

 

As per MahaSTRIDE program, considering its envisioned size, scale and complexity, MITRA is intending to hire a reputed Consultancy firm for effective project implementation and to augment’ existing implementation capacities of each of the districts in Maharashtra. Aim of this assignment is to strengthen district-level institutional capabilities in evidence-based planning and monitoring for growth. The overall objectives of the programme is ensure implementation of key initiatives related to EAC recommendation driven District Strategic Plan (DSP), PM Gati Shakti, PM Life and evidence-based policy and planning tool across Maharashtra.

 

Results Area I seek to leverage the momentum created by the introduction of DSPs by the State Planning Department in May 2023 and the creation of MITRA in November 2022. The DSPs are five-year rolling plans that are aligned with the State’s OTD Economy Roadmap. The DSPs include annual action plans that inter alia specify additional financing requirements and employment generation potential for interventions to accelerate district economic growth. As part of MahaSTRIDE Operation, districts will be incentivized through fiscal rewards for meeting certain performance conditions that relate to implementation of the annual action plans under DSPs. The use of these fiscal incentives would be governed by a broad set of guidelines providing flexibility

 

to the office of the district collector to leverage these funds to address local priorities including those identified in the DSPs. The proposed set of performance conditions include:

1. Interventions identified in the Annual Action Plans of DSP completed (Note: Completion of intervention to be measured by achievement of 100% of associated physical targets)
2. Increase in mobilisation of private capital for funding Annual Action Plan of DSPs
3. Increase in utilisation of District Annual Plan (General) funds for financing Annual Action Plan of DSPs
4. Public disclosure of approved plans (both 5-year and Annual Action Plans) on respective district portals

 

The selected consultancy firm is expected to support districts in updating, implementing, and monitoring their DSPs for the respective revenue divisions under the Program. MITRA is intending to hire one consultancy firm for each of the revenue division who will set up district strategic unit (having 3 members of selected consultancy firm + 1 GIS expert from MRSAC + 2 members of district Statistical department) for each of the district of that division and shall deploy 4 key resources at the divisional level. The details of key experts to be deployed at divisional level and other experts to be deployed at district level are provided in subsequent sections.

 

1. Objective of ToR

 

The key objective of this TOR is to outline the requirement of District Strategic Unit (DSU) team which is planned to be onboarded for the tenure of two years. The proposed district strategic unit is expected to work towards strengthening of district capabilities in evidence-based planning for growth and implementation of key initiatives related to EAC recommendation driven District Strategy Plan, PM Gati Shakti, PM Life and evidence-based policy and planning tool. For achieving this result area and objective it is essential to:

1. 1. Identify and support for implementation and monitoring of growth initiatives in district
   2. Strengthen district management information system for enabling growth & planning

 

1. High Level Scope of DSU

 

As per MahaSTRIDE program, considering its envisioned size, scale and complexity, it is envisioned to setup support structures of key experts such as Project monitoring, sectoral SMEs, Private Credit Mobilization, GIS Mapping, Information Technology and Data analysis, etc. The District Strategic units (DSU) shall support district administration and MITRA in below mentioned key activities which are in line with the Result Areas proposed in the MahaSTRIDE program:

 

#	Scope Item
1.	Assist in preparation of the road map for implementation of various activities under MahaSTRIDE
2.	Assist districts in building capabilities specific to Monitoring & Evaluation, GIS, Private Capital mobilization and overall program management
3.	Assist district officials in timely submission of annual action plans and implementation and monitoring of district strategic plans
4.	Assist in monitoring rationalization of District Planning Committee Schemes and incorporation of schemes that supporting DPC Interventions
5.	Monitor data centric and data backed implementation of District Strategic Plan
6.	Assist in Monitoring of expenditure outruns of annual action plan and district strategic plans
7.	Coordinate with Industries and financial institutions for private capital mobilization for funding annual action plan

 

#	Scope Item
8.	Assist in preparing requirements of dashboard by leveraging indicators from District Socio- economic Review and SDG District Indicator Framework to consolidated view of fund flow to district and state machinery
9.	Coordinate with MRSAC for drawing relevant geospatial layers for designing of dashboards
10.	Identify integration requirements for existing MIS systems such as MPSIMS, iPAS, BEAMs and GoI’s PFMS system
11.	Assist in development of data capabilities in coordination with district statistical offices to meet district level planning needs through technological innovation
12.	Prepare recommendations for initiatives that can be considered under LiFE (Lifestyle for environment) Initiatives
13.	Assist district officials in implementation monitoring of programs specific to Industry sector namely promoting women entrepreneurship, supporting cluster development in Tehsils, implementation of district export promotion plans and capacity building of field level officers of industry Commissionerate
14.	Assist district officials in implementation monitoring of programs specific to Tourism sector namely revising, establishment of framework for analysing tourism statistics for better planning, operationalizing Destination Management Organisation (DMOs) in selected destinations and preparation of destination management plans
15.	To monitor and/or assist procurements required for implementation of DSPs
16.	To monitor the progress of the program/activities and initiate achievement submission (against respective DLIs) process of disbursement for the completed part
17.	Periodic updates to MITRA and Planning Department on    progress of  activities under the MahaSTRIDE operation.
18.	Support preparation of concrete action plans, deliverables, and budgets for achieving the program results.
19.	To coordinate between implementing divisions and departments and enable knowledge transfer on good practices
20.	Support for implementation and monitoring of growth initiatives in districts esp. on Job creation and economic growth ; analyze suitable data sets and give course correction for various industrial department schemes
21.	GIS mapping of sectoral hotspots, preparation of base maps, spatial attribute, data collection & vetting of maps and updating the dashboard for available services and ease of access to information of these hotspots
22.	Organise half yearly G2B investor conclaves to bring inward investments in targeted shelf of investible projects which can be showcased with stakeholders and MoUs will be encouraged with the investors

 

 

1. High Level Indicative Team Structure:

One of the key objectives of setting up this DSU at district place is to strengthen capacities of district in areas such as M&E, use of GIS, private capital mobilization and overall project management. In addition, Consultants are also expected to provide sector specific experts based on the prioritized subsectors (such as Industries, Tourism, Agriculture & allied services etc.) who will be based at the divisional location and shall continuously collaborate with district to assist in designing and implementation of required initiatives. The MahaSTRIDE program shall require below indicative key professionals for effective implementation of project and ease of monitoring. The divisional team will report to the Divisional Commissioner and the District team will report to the District Collector. The reporting mechanism will include coordination and continuous reporting to PMU-MITRA, which will be monitoring and evaluating the performance of these district and divisional units.

 

 

 

 

Project Manager

 

Tourism Expert

 

Environmental and Social Safeguard Expert

 

Industry cum Private Capital Mobilisation Expert

 

Implementation Unit - Division - Divisional Commissioner

 

 

 

 

Implementation Unit - Districts - District Collector

 

 

 

 

Data Scientist

 

Project Manager cum Monitoring and Evaluation Expert

 

Fiduciary Expert

 

GIS Expert*

 

Research Officer#

 

Assistant Planning Officer#

 

 

 

*to be provided by MRSAC    #to be provided by district administration

 

 

 

 

 

Sl. No.	Experts Type	Quantity
Key Experts / Resource Profiles (at Divisional Level)
DV.1	Project Manager	1
DV.2	Industry cum Private Capital Mobilization Expert	1
DV.3	Tourism Sector Expert	1
DV.4	Environmental and Social Safeguards Expert	1
A	Sub-Total of Key Experts / Resource Profiles (At each division)	4
Other Resources (at each District location)
DS.1	Data Scientist	1
DS.2	Monitoring & Evaluation Expert	1
DS.3	FM Expert	1
DS.4	GIS Expert (To be Provided by MRSAC)	1
DS.5	Research Officer (Expected from Respective District Administration)	1
DS.6	Assistant Planning Officer (Expected from Respective District Administration)	1
B	Sub-Total of Other Resources (At each district)	6

 

Annexures

Format-1: Expression of Interest                                                           

(To be submitted on the letterhead of the Consultant)

 

Place:                                                                                                                           Date:

 

 

To,

 

Chief Executive Officer,

Maharashtra Institute of Transformation 5th Floor, Nirmal Building,

Backbay Reclamation, Nariman Point Mumbai - 400021

Subject: Expression of Interest for District Strategic Unit (DSU) for Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (MahaSTRIDE) program in Maharashtra

Reference: EOI Reference number Dear Sir,

Having examined the EOI, the receipt of which is hereby duly acknowledged, we, the undersigned, offer to provide the professional services as required and outlined in the REOI for for “District Strategic Unit (DSU) for Maharashtra Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in Districts for Enabling Growth (MahaSTRIDE) program in Maharashtra”.

 

{If the Consultant is a joint venture, insert the following: We are submitting our EOI as a joint venture with: {Insert a list with full name and the legal address of each member, and indicate the lead member}.We have attached a copy {insert: “of our letter of intent to form a joint venture” or, if a JV is already formed, “of the JV agreement”} signed by every participating member, which details the likely legal structure of and the confirmation of joint and several liability of the members of the said joint venture.

 

{OR

 

If the Consultant’s EOI includes Sub-consultants, insert the following: We are submitting our EOI with the following firms as Sub-consultants: {Insert a list with full name and address of each Sub- consultant.}.

 

We      are      pleased      to       express       our       interest       for       Single/       multiple packages (Package                                                    /Package                                                 

                  ………..Insert name of all packages for which EoI is to be submitted) and hereby confirm our priority order as below :

 

Package	Priority Order

 

 

We attach hereto our responses to REOI requirements. We confirm that the information contained in these responses or any part thereof, including the exhibits, and other documents and instruments delivered or to be delivered to MITRA, is true, accurate, verifiable, and complete. This response includes all information necessary to ensure that the statements therein do not in whole or in part mislead the MITRA in its short-listing process.

 

 

Our correspondence details with regards to this EOI are as under:

 

 

Sr No	Information	Details
1.	Name of the Applicant
2.	Name of authorized signatory
3.	Designation of authorized signatory
4.	Address of authorized signatory
5.	Office telephone number of authorized signatory
6.	Mobile number of authorized signatory
7.	Official email id of authorized signatory
8.	Corporate website URL
9.	Focus sectors proposed under I-CoE

 

 

Format – 2: Organizational Contact Details of Single Entity/Consortium

 

 

 

Organizational Contact Details of Single Entity and in case of Consortium applicant:

 

Sr. No.	Name of Organization	Mobile No.	Email

 

 

 

 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory (with official seal)

 

                  Format – 3: Financial Strength of the Applicant                 

 

Financial Strength of the organization

 

Sr. No.	Financial Year	Whether Profitable (Y/N)	Annual            Net Profit (in Cr. Rs.)	Overall Annual Turnover (in Cr. Rs.)	Annual Turnover from Consultancy Services Related to India (in Cr. Rs.)
1	2023-24
2	2022-23
3	2021-22
Note: Please enclose auditor’s certificate in support of your claim.

 

 

 

 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory (with official seal)

 

                        Format – 4: Experience of the Applicant                       

 

Experience of the applicant :

 

Overview of the past experience of the applicant
S. No	Items	Number of Assignments during last 5 years	Order Value of each assignment in Lakhs of Rs. (Enclose copy of each order)	Mention the name of Client/ Organization (Enclosed completion certificates)
1	Experience               of assignments              of similar nature
1.1	Experience in carrying     out similar assignments              in Government
1.2	Experience      in carrying out Similar assignments in Public sector.
	Decision of Evaluating Committee in ascertaining “similar nature” and “similar assignment” will be final.       Signature of the applicant Full name of applicant Stamp & Date

 

                            Format – 5: Additional Information                           

 

Additional Information:

1. List of enclosures related to the previous sections.

 

S.NO	Description	No. of pages

 

1. Additional Information to support the eligibility of applicant (Not mor than 2 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory (with official seal)

 

                            Format – 6: Consortium Agreement                           

(To be executed on Rs. 500/- stamp paper)

 

THIS CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT is entered into on this the                                 day of

                   2022

AMONGST

                                                 registered as (The Partnership Act 1932, limited liability partnership (LLP) under LLP Act 2008, private limited company registered under Companies act 1956 or 2013, public limited company registered under Companies act 1956 or 2013, or registered under Societies Registration Act 1860 or Bombay Public Trust Act 1950) and having its (registered office/office) at         (hereinafter referred to as the “First Part” or the “Lead Bidder” which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context include its successors and permitted assigns)

AND

                                                   registered as (The Partnership Act 1932, limited liability partnership (LLP) under LLP Act 2008, private limited company registered under Companies act 1956 or 2013, public limited company registered under Companies act 1956 or 2013, Government- owned Companies) and having its (registered office / office) at   (hereinafter referred to as the “Second Part” or the “Consortium 1” which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context include its successors and permitted assigns)

AND / OR

                                                     registered as (The Partnership Act 1932, limited liability partnership (LLP) under LLP Act 2008, private limited company registered under Companies act 1956 or 2013, public limited company registered under Companies act 1956 or 2013, Government- owned Companies) and having its (registered office / office) at          (hereinafter referred to as the “Third Part” or the “Consortium 2” which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context include its successors and permitted assigns)

 

The abovementioned parties of the FIRST, SECOND, and THIRD PART are collectively referred to as the “Parties” and each is individually referred to as a “Party”.

WHEREAS:

Maharashtra Institute of Transformation, Nirmal building, Backbay Reclamation, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021, (hereinafter referred to as “MITRA” which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, include its administrators, successors and assigns) has invited

 

Expression of Interest vide EOI reference No                                dated                            (hereinafter referred as “EOI”) for “Hiring Implementation Resources in District Strategic Unit Hiring Implementation Resources for realizing of District Strategic Plan, PM Gatishakti, PM LiFE and recommendations of Economic Advisory Council (EAC) across districts by leveraging technology to achieve Maharashtra's US $1 Trillion economic target by FY'28 for MahaSTRIDE”.

 

The Parties are interested in jointly bidding for the EOI as members of a Consortium and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the EOI, and

It is a necessary condition under the Bidding Documents that the members of the Consortium shall enter into a Consortium Agreement (the “Agreement”) and furnish a copy thereof with the bid. NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

1. Definitions and Interpretation: In this Agreement, the capitalized terms shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning ascribed thereto under the Bidding Documents.
2. Consortium: The Parties do hereby irrevocably constitute a consortium (the “Consortium”) for the purposes of jointly participating in the bidding process for the Project. The Parties hereby undertake to participate in the bidding process only through this Consortium and not individually and/ or through any other Consortium constituted for this Contract, either directly or indirectly or through any of their associates.
3. Role of the Parties:
   1. The Parties hereby undertake that Party of the First Part is fulfilling the prequalification criteria as per the requirement of “EOI” in all respects and shall be the “Lead Bidder” of the Consortium and shall have the Power of Attorney from all Parties for conducting all business for and on behalf of the Consortium during the Bidding Process and until the signing of the Contract when all the obligations of the Consortium shall become effective.
   2. The project shall be executed by the “Lead Bidder” as a whole and solely responsible to MITRA for all the activities mentioned in the EOI Document.
   3. The obligations of all parties of the Consortium Agreement are as per Section 4 above.
4. Joint and Several Liability: The Parties do hereby undertake to be jointly and severally responsible for all obligations and liabilities relating to the Project and in accordance with the terms of the EOI Documents and the Contract, during subsistence of the Contract.
5. Representation of the Parties: Each Party represents to the other Parties as on the date of this Agreement that:
   1. Such Party is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of India

 

and has all requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement.

1. 1. The execution, delivery and performance by such Party of this Agreement has been authorized by all necessary and appropriate corporate or governmental action and a copy of the extract of the charter documents and board resolution or any other resolution/ Power of Attorney in favour of the person executing this Agreement for the delegation of power and authority to execute this Agreement on behalf of the Consortium Member is annexed to this Agreement, and will not require any consent or approval not already obtained, violate any Applicable Law presently in effect and having applicability to it;
   2. violate the memorandum and articles of association, bye-laws or other applicable organizational documents thereof;
   3. violate any clearance, permit, concession, grant, license or other Governmental authorization, approval, judgment, order or decree or any mortgage agreement, indenture or any other instrument to which such Party is a party or by which such Party or any of its properties or assets are bound or that is otherwise applicable to such Party; or create or impose any liens, mortgages, pledges, claims, security interests, charges or encumbrances or obligations to create a lien, charge, pledge, security interest, encumbrances or mortgage in or on the property of such Party, except for encumbrances that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or prospects or business of such Party so as to prevent such Party from fulfilling its obligations under this Agreement;
   4. this Agreement is the legal and binding obligation of such Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms against it; and
   5. there is no litigation pending or, to the best of such Party's knowledge, threatened to which it or any of its Affiliates is a party that presently affects, or which would have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or prospects or business of such Party in the fulfillment of its obligations under this Agreement.
2. Conflict of Interest: The Parties herein undertake to take all necessary measures in order to avoid any conflict of interest during the performance of the project or the contract for “Hiring Implementation Resources in District Strategic Unit Hiring Implementation Resources for realizing of District Strategic Plan, PM Gatishakti, PM LiFE and recommendations of Economic Advisory Council (EAC) across districts by leveraging technology to achieve Maharashtra's US $1 Trillion economic target by FY'28 for MahaSTRIDE” and also to identify any conflict of interest so that MITRA can consult with the Lead Partner and other Parties to sort out such conflicts.

 

1. Post Contract Liabilities: For any loss or damage on account of any breach of this Agreement or the contract for “Hiring Implementation Resources in District Strategic Unit Hiring Implementation Resources for realizing of District Strategic Plan, PM Gatishakti, PM LiFE and recommendations of Economic Advisory Council (EAC) across districts by leveraging technology to achieve Maharashtra's US $1 Trillion economic target by FY'28 for MahaSTRIDE” or any shortfall in the execution of the Project, meeting the guaranteed performance / parameters as per technical specifications / documents relating to the EOI, “Lead Bidder” undertake to promptly make good such loss or damage on MITRA’s demand without any demur. MITRA shall have the right to proceed against any one of the Parties herein in this regard without establishing the individual liability of such party and it shall neither be necessary nor obligatory on the part of MITRA to proceed against the “Lead Bidder” before proceeding against the other Parties herein.
2. Assignment: The rights and obligations of the parties under this Agreement shall not be outsourced or subcontracted without the prior written consent of MITRA.
3. Employers’ responsibility: Each Party will be responsible according to the applicable laws and rules for their own personnel and property.
4. Insurance: The Parties herein shall at their own expense take out and maintain insurance cover as may be necessary to cover their liabilities.
5. Applicable Law: This Consortium Agreement shall be governed, construed, and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India and the Courts in Mumbai shall have the exclusive jurisdiction in all matters arising hereunder.
6. Termination: This Agreement shall be effective from the date hereof and shall continue till the expiry of the Defect Liability period under the Agreement. However, in case the Consortium is either not pre-qualified or does not get selected for award of the Contract, the Agreement will stand terminated in case the Consortium is not pre-qualified.
7. Indemnification: All consortium members of this agreement shall fully indemnify, hold harmless and defend MITRA and its officers etc., from and against all claims, liabilities, suits, damages including any criminal liability due to false declaration by the consortium members with regard to this Agreement (or) Tender transaction (or) Project (or) contract etc., caused due to negligence / commission / omission of the any of the consortium members (or) its employees and agents including representatives (or) sub-contractors (or) any other person claiming (or) any other person claiming under this tender (or) under the applicable laws of India.

 

The Parties acknowledge and accept that this Agreement shall not be amended by the Parties without the prior approval of MITRA.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF THE PARTIES ABOVE NAMED HAVE EXECUTED AND DELIVERED THIS AGREEMENT AS OF THE DATE FIRST ABOVE WRITTEN.

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED
For and on behalf of 1st Party: Signature: Name of authorized signatory: Designation: Name of Company: Address of Company:
For and on behalf of 2nd Party: Signature: Name of authorized signatory: Designation: Name of Company: Address of Company:
For and on behalf of 3rd Party: Signature: Name of authorized signatory: Designation: Name of Company: Address of Company:
IN WITNESSS WHEREOF
1. Witness no. 1: Signature: Name of signatory: Designation: Name of Company: Address of Company:	2. Witness no. 2: Signature: Name of signatory: Designation: Name of Company: Address of Company:

 

Note:

1. The mode of the execution of the Consortium Agreement should be in accordance with the applicable laws.

 

1. Each Consortium Agreement should attach a copy of the extract of the charter documents and documents such as resolution / Power of Attorney in favour of the person executing this Agreement for the delegation of power and authority to execute this Agreement on behalf of the Consortium Member.