DAI, the implementer of the
“USAID-funded Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (IUWASH)
Project” invites qualified offerors to submit proposals to supply and
deliver “Customer Census Android and Web Application Developer” in
support of program implementation.
The
USAID Indonesia Urban Water Sanitation and Hygiene (USAID IUWASH)
project is a sixty-month program funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) and implemented under the leadership
of DAI. USAID IUWASH works with government, the private sector, NGOs,
community groups and other stakeholders to improve access to safe water
supply and sanitation in Indonesia’s urban areas. The expected results
to be achieved are: (a) Two million people in urban areas gain access to
improved water supply; (b) 250,000 people in urban areas gain access to
improved sanitation facilities; and (c) the per unit water cost paid by
the poor in targeted areas decreases by at least 20%.
To achieve the
above, technical assistance is divided in three main technical
components:
- Mobilizing demand for water supply and sanitation service delivery,
- Improving and expanding capacity for water and sanitation service delivery, and
- Strengthening policy and the financial enabling environment for improved water supply and
ACTIVITY BACKGROUND
As
the government of Indonesia started its 5-Year National Development
Plan for 2015-19, the targets for the water supply and sanitation sector
are significantly ambitious: to achieve universal (basic) access to
safe water supply and sanitation facilities for all citizens by 2019. To
achieve this ambitious target will require an increase in efficiency
and effectiveness in the acceleration of service delivery among all
stakeholders. Related to the sanitation target, the Ministry of Public
works and Housing (PUPR) acknowledged that > 80% of this will come
from individual systems (improved septic tanks combined with improved
septage management). To support this, They developed an OBA (Output
Based Aid) scheme to rapidly increase SNI approved septic tanks combined
with LLTT (Layanan Lumpur Tinja Terjadwal = Regular Desluding) for
regular collection and proper treatment of septage sludge.
Both
these programs require extensive household survey’ s (for OBA) and
census (for LLTT) of existing presence and condition of septic tanks,
emptying history and challenges and willingness for households to
participate in these programs. Until now these surveys are done by
enumerators using printed questionnaires, which are collected by
supervisor and then analyzed by hand (using Excel or SPSS) after which
results are presented using graphs, piecharts, and/or maps inserted by
hand. This is a costly, time consuming method, which is prone to
errors; also each survey is a “stand alone” exercize which later can not
easily be combine with others, to create better understanding of larger
picture accross regions.
However
with the rapid development in Indonesia of smart and open source IT
applications and extensive use of smartphones, tablets, etc, it should
be possible to develop simple survey’s or census convert using a
smartphone / tablet application, which enumerators can use to quickly
fill in the answers and upload the results (including pictures of septic
tanks + GPS location) to a webbased application, which automatically
analyzes the data and present results by graph and maps.
IUWASH
and WSP team search on internet for existing programs, to avoid
duplication efforts, but the software found (like AKVO-FLOW or M-Water)
was either licenced (with substantial fee) or limited in presenting
results, languages, storage outside Indonesia, etc. The team concluded
that rather then trying to improve these or negotiate reduced fees, the
easiest, quickest and cheapest option is to develop a simple STS_App
(Septic Tank Survey Application) in Indonesian language by a local
programmer, using standard questionnaire developed by the IUWASH / WSP
team, 6 existing questionnaires (by IUWASH, WSP, SNV, PU consultant) on
same topic. After STS-App is developed, it will be tested in 1-2 IUWASH
locations, then finalized and accompanied by a manual, describing all
steps (installation, operation, analyzing, results).
OBJECTIVE
Using
septic tank survey questionnaire as a basis, the Application Developer
will design an android based application, combined with online web-based
portal, to enable donor and/or Government sponsored projects to conduct
rapid Septic Tank surveys. The Application Developer will test
application in 1-2 IUWASH locations and provide operations manual (all
in Indonesian language). When the application is successful, then the
Application Developer should continue developing the web-based portal
linkages to the standard existing regular desludging operator customer
database systems.
For
those mentioned subject, IUWASH inviting you to submit proposal, detail
Request For Proposal (RFP) & Scope of Work, please see: HERE
Thank you very much for your kind attention
Sincerely yours,
IUWASH Procurement
