Background

HC1 Care Foundation (“Company”) is a Section-8 company registered under Companies Act, 2013. It’s a philanthropic arm of Highways Infrastructure Trust (“HIT”, an Infrastructure Investment Trust registered with SEBI). HC1 Care Foundation invites an eligible agency to implement one of its CSR initiatives, Project Saksham (Short-term Residential Skill Development Project) from May 2025 to March 2026 or as agreed by the Company. The objective of this initiative is to undertake short-term residential courses, skilling interventions, primarily to meet the skilling needs of marginalized & vulnerable groups and those of difficult/remote geographies, hard-to-reach areas and providing the employment opportunity to atleast 75% of total trainees.

Inclusion

• Marginalized or vulnerable groups (to mean hereafter such as Scheduled Castes and Tribes, Persons with Disabilities, Women, economically backward people, any other category which identifies as marginalized/vulnerable and is recognized by Government of India and State Governments.
• Difficult/remote geographies, hard to reach areas (such as, aspirational districts, areas located in rural or remote areas etc.).

Innovation

• Projects with innovative skill training strategies, latest / advanced technical and soft skills.

Key features

The scheme will be implemented in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the qualified agency / successful Applicant.

Process for project

The major steps involved in the selection of the successful Applicant as per this RFP are as below:

•  Each Applicant organization will have to submit their proposals at tenders@highwayconcessions.com on or before the last day of submission.
• After the date of receiving applications is over, all applications will be evaluated as per the evaluation parameters (defined later in this document).
• Post approval by HC1 Care Foundation, the successful Applicant organizations will be intimated.
• Post the allocation of project/award to the successful Applicant, the Applicant can start training at the proposed centers only after submission and verification of all the statutory documents.
• The performance of the Applicant organizations would be monitored for quality aspect of training, placement, and other relevant factors as found appropriate by HC1 Care Foundation on a monthly basis as per the pre-defined key performance indicators (i.e. no. of students trained, no. of placement achieved, and average starting salary post placement).
• Submission of proposal under RFP mode does not guarantee allocation of project/grant under Company’s skill development initiative. This RFP does not encourage the creation of any new training infrastructure specifically for imparting training under the scheme. Any applicant organization that is not qualifying the eligibility criteria shall be disqualified at any stage during evaluation or due diligence. HC1 CARE FOUNDATION shall in no case be responsible or liable for the conduct or outcome of the proposal process.

Invited Proposals

HC1 CARE FOUNDATION invites proposals from the organizations / Applicants which meet the eligibility criteria for implementation of “Skill Development Project” a project to train candidates with short-term residential courses, enhancing candidate’s core employability skills and provide placement opportunities to at-least 70% to 75% of the total candidates.

Further, only those organizations which meet the conditions should respond to the RFP:

• Specialist Organizations: Such organizations could be NGOs, research labs, educational or financial institutions and best-in-class academic institutions, other expert organizations, who are experienced and specialize in working with and skilling of marginalized communities or specialize in working in proposed difficult geographies.
• Government organizations/departments: With the domain support of Government schemes and institutional settings, Ministries, Government departments or organizations or private training institutions on behalf of government departments, can propose for training program.
• Organizations already providing/proposing innovative models of skilling linked to entrepreneurship and those providing placements.

To download the full RFP document, click here: RFP Skill Development Agency

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