PUBLISHING SKILLING

CONTENT ALIGNED TO

QUALIFICATION PACK Request for Expression of Intent

10 May 2016

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Contents Publishing Skilling Content: Partnership for Skilling India ....................................................................... 2

Disclaimer: .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Snapshot of the EOI: ........................................................................................................................... 2

Background: ........................................................................................................................................ 3

The Requirement: ............................................................................................................................... 4

Specifications: ..................................................................................................................................... 5

What we look for in You: .................................................................................................................... 5

Submission of EoI ................................................................................................................................ 7

Way Forward ...................................................................................................................................... 8

Annexure1: Sector wise Qualification Packs (Job Roles) summary for Skilling Initiatives ................... 9

Annexure2: Excel format to accompany the EOI Letter Pdf .............................................................. 10

Annexure 3: At a Glance ................................................................................................................... 11

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Publishing Skilling Content: Partnership for Skilling India

Disclaimer: All information contained in this EOI, subsequently provided / clarified are in good interest and faith. This is not an agreement and is not an offer or invitation to enter into an agreement of any kind with any party. Each applicant should conduct its own investigation and analysis & should check the accuracy, reliability and completeness of the information in this EOI. Applicants should make their own independent investigation in relation to any additional information that may be required. National Skill Development Corporation (“NSDC”) reserves the right to cancel this request for EOI and/ or

invite afresh with or without amendments to this request for EOI, without liability or any obligation for

such request for EOI and without assigning any reason. Information provided at this stage is merely

indicative.

Snapshot of the EOI: Project Name : Publishing Skilling Content aligned to

Qualification Pack

Objective for inviting EOI : Engaging Publishers to arrange content and/or publish the content/ books aligned to specific Qualification Packs.

Coordinating Agency: NSDC

Eligibility Criteria for the Applicant Entities having a proven track record/ experience in the publishing of books Details provided later in this EOI.

Selection Criteria for the Applicant EOI will be followed by a presentation to the Review Committee. Common criteria will be arrived at, and publishers will be invited to follow the common criteria.

Last Date and Time for Submission May 31, 2016 up to 23:59 hours IST

Methodology of submitting the EOI Applicant party should submit the EOI in the prescribed format(pdf and excel) as described in the document below

NSDC Contact Information : Preeti Arora

QA@NSDCIndia.org, Ph : 011-47451600

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Background:

62% of India’s population is between 15-59 years of working age, but only 4.69% of the workforce has been through formal skilling training, as against 52% in USA, 68% in UK, 75% in Germany and 80% in Japan.

India would be one of the youngest and the most populous nations by the year 2022, with surplus workforce that, if skilled, may be supplied to the ageing countries of the world. To make the best of this demographic dividend, we need to ensure focused skilling of our workforce, and enablement of international mobility of such workforce. With a target to skill 400 M youth by the year 2022, our Hon’ble Prime Minister launched the National Skill Development Mission on July 15, 2015. To enable the mission, there is need to develop quality skilling content and enable its reach to each of these 400 M prospective trainees.

NSDC is a one of its kind, Public Private Partnership in India, under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship. It aims to promote skill development by catalyzing creation of large, quality, vocational institutions.

NSDC provides funding to build scalable, vocational training initiatives. Its mandate is also to enable support systems such as quality assurance, information systems and train the trainer academies either directly or through partnerships. NSDC acts as a catalyst in skill development by providing funding to enterprises, companies and organizations that provide skill training. It also develops appropriate models to enhance, support and coordinate private sector initiatives.

40 Sector Skill Councils formed by NSDC focus on the skilling ecosystem in the respective economic sectors e.g. Textiles, Construction, IT/ ITES, Telecom, Agriculture, Tourism & Hospitality etc. A complete list of operational QPs is available in Annexure1.

A Sector Skills Council (SSC) is representative of the industry in that sector, for ensuring that they become a resource of skilled manpower for that sector.

To ensure structured training and assessment in the domain, each SSC documents and promulgates a Qualification Pack (QP) which defines the requirements of a job role. A QP is composed of multiple National Occupational Standards (NOS). NOSs are key functions/ competencies that together constitute a Qualification Pack. All government-supported skilling initiatives are taken for QP-focused training.

There are over 1600 QPs in place today, and more are in the making. Annexure 1 details the sector wise QPs and NOSs.

To assure quality and consistency of output across the skill training initiatives for the varied job roles across the country, NSDC coordinates with the respective SSCs for the development of QP-wise:

Model Curriculum

Skilling Content o Participant Handbook

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o Trainer Guide with Session Plan o Lab Guide o Assessment Guide o PowerPoint Slides

SSCs may author/ procure QP-based Skilling content. Thus SSCs interface with Content providers for

various job roles. Content thus may be owned/ co-owned by the SSC.

This EOI is to publish that content in the prescribed format by the publishers approved by the Qualification

Registration Committee (QRC), as per the agreed terms between the SSC and the Publisher.

SSCs present the QP-based Skilling Content Books to the QRC, i.e. the Qualification Registration

Committee, for final approval before release.

QP-based books published by these publishers will be bought by training partners from all over India.

[It would be desirable for Publishers to have availability of QP-wise quality skilling content, so that the SSC

may access the Publishers also as Content Providers.]

The Requirement:

Response requested from Publishing Partners to:

Procure content from SSC, or (desirable) develop skilling content that is aligned to a specific Qualification Pack. If Publisher is developing / or getting skilling content developed, necessary approvals are a must from the concerned SSC.

Subject the content thus procured to relevant inhouse validations, thus ensuring complete and correct coverage, with strong plagiarism-prevention checks

Follow the process and formats released by NSDC, in preparing the books

Establish an Agreement with the respective SSCs for o Final Validation and Acceptance of skilling content book/s by the SSC (on the basis of

QRC approval). o Financial understanding wrt the proceeds from the sale of such content. This could be

differentiated in cases where the content is provide by SSC.

Price books at <= Re 1/- per page.

Sell the Skilling Content books as per the requirement posed by various stakeholders.

Manage inventory and delivery logistics across the country within agreed timelines.

Publishers may establish multiple points of sale, in discussion with the partnering SSC, including, but not limited to eCommerce linkage from the NSDC’s, and the respective SSC’s portals.

Establish systems and processes for transparency of financial dealings

Devise and execute customer feedback capture, continuous improvement systems.

Report (Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly), statistical analysis of geography-wise, sector-wise, job-role-wise, calendar-period-wise, and Training-partner-wise: purchase data.

Royalty to be paid to SSC on a quarterly basis, on agreed terms with them.

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Specifications:

Format of the book-> Demy Quarto(close to A4 size)

Dimensions 280 x 216 mm

Text Paper 70.00 gsm, A-grade paper

Text Colour Four-color

Cover Specifications 300 gsm

Cover Colour Four-color

Cover Treatment Gloss lamination

Packing Shrink packing

Binding Section sewn Table1: Specifications

What we look for in the Publisher:

You:

are a publisher of repute in India.

have been in operations for at least 3 years as on 31 Mar 2016.

have access to skilling content in specific Sectors and Qualification Packs.

can manage the entire cycle of QP-wise Skilling Content generation-> Skilling Content

preparation -> Inventory Management-> Retail-> Financial Management for specific Sector-QPs.

have a wide logistics network in India.

have the missionary zeal to participate in the Skill India Mission.

value the nation-building opportunity underlying the business proposition described.

If you find your interests matching the above, please respond with an Expression of Intent(EOI).

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Eligibility Conditions: Sl.

No. Criteria Unit

Minimum

requirement

1 No. of years of Existence as of 31st March 2016 Years Three Mandatory

2 Skilling Content Development/ Procurement

Facility existing, with a minimum of 5 employees - Yes Mandatory

3 No. of pincodes serviced for procuring order, and

delivering book-shipments

No. of

pincodes - Preference

Table2: Eligibility Conditions

Further to above:-

Availability of quality paper, warehousing will be considered

Overall Publishing background and key achievements will also be considered for eligibility of Publishers.

Evaluation Criteria (to arrive at List ‘A’, List ‘B’):

CATEGORY CRITERIA MARKS

1.No. of years of Existence as of 31st March 2015 3-20 years 5

>20 years 10

2. Skilling Content Development/ Procurement Facility existing, with

specific number of employees 5-10 employees 5

11-15 employees 10

>15 employees 15

3. Number of QP-mapped content published 1-5 QPs 5

6-10 QPs 10

>10 QPs 15

4.Logistics: Number of India pincodes where supplied books 1-1000 pincodes 5

1001-5000 pincodes 10

5001-10000 pincodes 15

>10000 pincodes 20

Max Marks 60

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Table3: Evaluation Criteria

Shortlisting will be done based on the above criteria. List ‘A’ will comprise of those Publishers

who score >= 40 marks above. Those scoring <40 marks will form List ‘B’.

List ‘A’ will be invited to make a presentation in front of the QRC

Post the QRC presentation of List ‘A’, in case of further requirement, then only publishers in

List ‘B’ will be invited for the presentation.

Final selection of the Publishers will be done by the QRC; Final Number of publishers selected

for implementation is the discretion of QRC

The decision of QRC will be final.

QRC would establish the following ratings as mentioned in Table4 (during the presentation), in

addition to the Evaluation criteria mentioned above in Table3:

CATEGORY CRITERIA MARKS

1. Consistency of Paper Supply & Quality: QRC rating Rating 10

2. Inventory management systems and Warehousing : QRC rating Rating 10

3. Skilling Ecosystem connect: Awareness/ Experience wrt Skilling: QRC

rating Rating 10

4. Publishing reputation & achievement: Number of books published,

domains, noteworthy achievements: QRC rating Rating 15

5. Openness to follow standard pricing of books decided by QRC Rating 10

Max Marks 55

Table4: Ratings

Submission of EoI from the Publisher A covering letter signed by the Head /Authorized signatory of the applicant organization on

the official letter head stating :

o Self-declaration of the performance and facts of the organization

Along with the pdf of the signed EoI letter, you are required to furnish details of the identified

sector-QP in the format mentioned in Annexure 2 in an EXCEL file (available on web-site along

with this Request for EoI).

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The necessary documents as per the format have to be sent to the following Email Address :

QA@NSDCIndia.org

carrying the subject line: EOI: Publish Skilling Content

NOTE1: In case of queries, please write to QA@NSDCIndia.org by 18th May, 2016. A doubt-clarification session will be announced based on the received queries, on a day between 19th to 25th May2016.

NOTE: KINDLY SUBMIT YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT BY 31st May, 2016 by 23:59 hours IST as per the document mentioned above.

Way Forward Interested Publishers in India will respond expressing their Intent to participate in the Skilling

Content publishing, mapping to the Qualification Pack.

A list of ELIGIBLE Publishers shall be prepared at NSDC. (List A)

Shortlisted Publishers(List A) will be called to make a technical presentation to the QRC.

Post presentation by List A Publishers, if requirement still remains, List B may be considered by QRC for presentation

Final selection of Publishers will be done by the QRC

(NSDC has the right to release an addendum to this EOI at its discretion)

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Annexure1: Sector wise Qualification Packs (Job Roles) summary for Skilling Initiatives

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Annexure2: Excel format to accompany the EOI Letter Pdf

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Annexure 3: At a Glance

Start

Feedback for

enhancement

received from QRC?

Yes

No

SSC receives approval from QRC; and hands over

the QRC-cleared book to Publisher for production

Publisher taps multiple points of sales (B2B, B2C,

Virtual ). Sells, delivers, inventory, logistics mgmt.

Publisher shares monthly consumption statistics to

SSC, NSDC for QP-wise content sale , delivery

Publisher credits royalty to the SSC

NSDC: Formats, Process and Review Coordination

Stop

SSC authors/ procures content from a Content

Provider

SSC gets book designed

from the Publisher

SSC submits the book for QRC approval

Layout-Designing

inhouse at SSC?

Yes

No

SSC gets the

fixes done