Consultancy for Baseline Survey Job in Kenya

Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology

Expression of Interest

Provision of Consultancy to Undertake a Baseline Survey for the Establishment of a Knowledge Management Information System

The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology has the mandate of spearheading the transformation of Kenya into a knowledge economy. The mandate consists of two main strategic thrusts: the Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) and the human resource development in the higher education mandate.

The mission of the Ministry emphasizes the promotion of higher education and integration of science and technology into the production system of the economy.

To successfully achieve this mission the ministry needs to develop an effective knowledge management system to ensure that the right knowledge related information is available to the key Science, Technology and Innovation Institutions/Organizations at the right time and in the right form. The Ministry intends to develop a Knowledge Information System with a knowledge sharing platform and deductive databases.

The deductive databases system will have capabilities to define rules which can infer additional information from the facts that are stored in the databases through artificial intelligence and data mining.

The Ministry has been relying on the Education Management Information System (EMIS) installed in the Ministry of Education. However the EMIS is very limited in terms of the information and capacity to transform information into knowledge.

The Knowledge Management Information System will break down the information access barrier within the Ministry and the key Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) Institutions.

Objectives

The key objectives of the Knowledge Management Information System Baseline Survey are:

·       To define the users of knowledge and establish their information needs.

·       To establish the capacity of knowledge generators to generate and transfer information that is relevant to knowledge needs of the users.

·       To carry out a survey of the existing methods of knowledge transfer and analyze their efficiency.

·       To establish the capacity of ST&I institutions to package knowledge and to transfer it to users.

·       To carry out a review of cutting edge Knowledge Management Technology with a view to establishing its usefulness for knowledge management in Science and Technology Institutions.

·       To trace the flow of relevant information and knowledge from_ST&I institutions to the identified users of the knowledge.

·       Based on the above, to make recommendations to the Ministry of Higher Education on the establishment of an intelligent Knowledge Management Information System.

The Ministry of Higher Education Science and technology now invites interested consulting firms to express their interest in providing the services.

Interested consultant must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (Description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staffs, etc.)

Those interested in participating may forward their expression of interest documents in plain sealed envelopes marked MOHEST/EOI/2010-2011 Consultancy for baseline survey for the establishment of a knowledge management information system and addressed to

The Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
P. O. Box 9583-00200,
Jogoo House “B”,
Harambee Avenue, Nairobi

Or be deposited in the tender box situated at Jogoo House ‘B’ 9th floor so as to be received on or before 6th May, 2011 at 10.00 am.

Only shortlisted firms will be contacted

The ministry reserves the right to accept or reject any Expression of Interest without giving reasons thereof.

Head, Supply Chain Management
For: Permanent Secretary

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