About SELCO Foundation:

SELCO Foundation is an open source, Not for Profit, based out Bangalore, India which works at the intersection of development, clean energy and climate. On one hand it innovates on new solutions which can augment core development sectors like healthcare delivery and improved livelihoods, and on the other hand it builds systems which help the solutions scale successfully. SELCO Foundation has pioneered sustainable energy driven solutions that are inclusive of clean energy systems, energy efficient equipment and green built environments for public health centres. Being a practitioner driven knowledge and technical expert, SELCO Foundation firmly believes that an end-user centric, demand driven approach that focuses on ecosystem building, leads to interventions that are replicable and long term (Read more about SELCO here: http://www.selcofoundation.org/)

Program Overview:

SELCO Foundation for the past two years, has been pilot-testing a GenAI platform in collaboration with Apurva.ai. It is aimed to explore the power of leveraging technology to incubate transformative systems change at scale i.e. building systems of change that provide timely information for complex decision-making for organizations, by reducing the time taken to arrive at those decisions. This initiative aims to prove out the potential of scaling a learning methodology in the development sector, which can balance diverse views and agile decision making.

The Gen AI platform powered by Apurva.ai is an open innovation platform built specifically to help enable social change leaders to amplify the collective wisdom of their networks. This means enabling the organizations to tap into the rich theoretical, and subject-matter knowledge and expertise, and practical, on-ground experiences of the other organizations in their respective networks and learning from their perspectives and narratives regarding addressing complex problems in the development sector. This also serves as a unique platform that triangulates knowledge real-time. In partnership with Bhashini (BHASha INterface for India, an initiative by the Indian government under the Digital India program with the primary goal to break down language barriers in India by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies), it offers processing of 22 languages of India with the aim to include more as the platform progresses.

This Gen AI platform has integrated systems thinking framework and design thinking in its inference engine, enabling a holistic learning mechanism even if the queries come from certain biases.

Eligibility Criteria:

The Agency is responsible for delivering the specified Scope of Work and is expected to develop and present a comprehensive proposal that includes details on the timeline, resources, and budget (to include fixed and variable components). Requesting applicants to send a dedicated HR break up for the scope of work.

The primary criteria for selecting the agency to undertake this project are its expertise and experience in the following areas:

1. Experience in developing products based on the Gen AI Platform, with expertise in Natural LLM’s
2. Experience in tech development in resource constrained settings (financial, literacy, connectivity bandwidth resources)
3. Experience in working in the development sector or some past work relevant to this scope of work would be considered a significant advantage

The agency must submit a minimum of two samples, case studies, or references from previous work through the Google form specified in the Application process section to demonstrate its experience in the aforementioned areas.

To apply

Interested consultants / organisations, with relevant experience (please include samples and/or references of the previous similar work as proof of experience) and based out of India are requested to reach out with a detailed proposal giving a brief on the methodology and the process they will uptake for this project, including budgets (with break-ups and explanation), timelines and milestones and submit the same to google form https://forms.gle/jurxTg3EpypcvmvHA on before 15/07/2025.

Any further queries please write to procurement@selcofoundation.org with a subject line: “SaaS Provider for Apurva.ai for SELCO Foundation” (Name of Project)

To download the full ToR, click here: SaaS Provider for Apurva.ai for SELCO Foundation