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Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consultancy on Enhancing Industry Awareness of the Transport Data Warehouse and its Applications)

AHEAD/RA3/DOR/UOM/ENG/DSC/CON/TOR 03)

 

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

1. Usability testing of the data warehouse GUI
   • All functions will be tested for user-friendliness and a document maintained with recommendations inline with the functional specification provided
   • Material found useful for further awareness will be provided to be incorporated into the website
   • A potential dissemination strategy for the data warehouse, including the development of a short video highlighting the use and functions of the website 

 

2. Developing material to be used for a research documentation with the aim of advancing current research outputs
   • Review relevant technical outputs and draft written descriptions
   • Discussion with Research Team to finalize content
   • Guide Research Team on scouting for new research development opportunities and proposal documentation
   • Assist in developing two specific proposals for RFPs that have been identified by the research team (one each from the CS domain and the transport domain).

 

3.  Preparing documentation for uploading project documentation for dissemination on social media and GitHub.
   • Review technical write ups prepared by the Research team and improve them for public consumption
   • Assist the technical staff to improve the presentation of the web pages and social media pages for maximum impact.

 

 

The main duties and responsibilities of the Consultancy on Enhancing Industry Awareness of the Transport Data Warehouse and its Applications:

Deliverable NO	Action Item	Description
#1	Testing website for user friendliness	Document the testing of functions as per the functional spec provided, test each function for user friendliness and record recommendations for change, if any
#2	Descriptive text for the website	Based on functionality, create material that will be useful to enhance awareness of the data Warehouse on the website
#3	Draft dissemination plan	Draft a dissemination strategy by identifying stakeholders, content and social media outputs that may be used. Oversee the creation of a short video clip that will accompany the dissemination strategy. *
#4	Draft of generic research documentation	Read summaries of existing material (research outputs) and create a draft document with the assistance of the UoM research team
#5	Create a research proposal tracking tool	Create a ‘proposal opportunity tracker’ to aid the research team to identify opportunities and track RFPs that have been sent, it’s value and percentage of successful and unsuccessful RFPs.
#6	Testing GitHub and Social media pages for user friendliness	Document the testing of functions as per the functional spec provided, test each function for user friendliness and record recommendations for change, if any
#7	Drafts for 2 specific proposals	Draft two specific proposals in response to existing RFPs**

 

The duration of the service is for 4 months from the date of signing the contract.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the DataSEARCH, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• The individual involved in this project must possess a BSc (Hons) in Information Technology or an equivalent field.

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• More than 10 years high-level experience in Infrastructure Projects including transport. 

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• Demonstrated report writing skills.

 

Required Professional Competencies:

• Sound communication skills.
• Ability to interact with academic and administrative staff in the university and undergraduates.
• Ability to coordinate and facilitate the implementation of processes and procedures.
• Ability to analyze and resolve implementation issues effectively.

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a

CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 2.00 pm on 31^st January 2023. The phrase “Consultancy on Enhancing Industry Awareness of the Transport Data Warehouse and its Applications - AHEAD/RA3/DOR/UOM/ENG/DSC/CON/ TOR 03” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consultancy on Data Modelling & Validation for passenger demand)

AHEAD/RA3/DOR/UOM/ENG/DSC/CON/TOR 002)

 

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

1.         Household Travel Survey for Colombo District

1.1.      Update Trip Distribution patterns for the present condition

1.2.      Update Trip timing (departure & arrival etc.) of the commuters

1.3.      Update modal split under the present condition

1.4.      Update the model parameter values such as Value of Time, transport expenses, transit-related parameters

 

2.         Modal shift behaviour under the prevailing post-pandemic and economic crises

2.1.      Develop a methodology for collecting modal shifting in the present situation

2.2.      Conduct the Revealed Preference Survey for the Western province

2.3.      Conduct the data cleaning and Initial Analysis

2.4.      Collect the secondary data available in the Sri Lankan Railway

 

3.         Big data Analysis for Travel Pattern Study

3.1.      Design, develop and deploy a mechanism to extract railway, bus and taxi GPS data

3.2.      Conduct data preprocessing including appropriate data integration.

3.3.      Validate the extracted data using suitable techniques

3.4.      Design develop and deploy analytical query engine code to extend the existing transport data analytics platform.

3.5.      Validate the data with suitable ground truth via data triangulation.

3.6.      Support the extraction of processed statistics from the Datawarehousing platform. 

 

4.         Travel pattern assessment for Rail Passengers.

4.1.      Development of survey plan & forms for capturing the travel pattern & socio-economic data of rail passengers

4.2.      Survey selected stations in the Kelani Valley line.

4.3.      Conduct the data cleaning and Initial Analysis

The main duties and responsibilities of the Consultancy on Data Modeling & Validation for passenger demand will be to:

Deliverable NO	Action Item	Description
#1	Inception Report	Data requirements and data collection plan
#2	Interim Report & database	Report on the data collection (Component 1,2 &4)
#3	Presentation 1	Presentation on data collection (Component 1,2 &4)
#4	Draft Final Report	Report of the Data Collection & Initial Analysis
#5	Presentation 2	Presentation on the Data Collection & Initial Analysis – (Components 1,2 &4)
#6	Final Report	Final report with responses to the client’s comments on the draft final report - (Components 1,2 &4)
#7	Presentation 3	Presentation on final Report - (Component 1,2 &4)
#8	Big Data  Extraction	Extraction of bus, railway, and taxi GPS data from the sources (Component 3)
#9	Data Pre-processing and validation	Design and execute appropriate and suitable data preprocessing and validation of the same (Component 3)
#10	Code development	Developing Appachi SPARK or other code to enable analytical queries. (Component 3)
#11	Data Validation	Data validation via suitable data triangulation approaches. (Component 3)
#12	Documentation	Documentation of all the data and code and also preparation of user support content for the use of the analytics enginege to support the GPS-related queries. (Component 3)

 

 

The duration of the service is for 4 months from the date of signing the contract.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the DataSEARCH, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Transport Data Analyst & Team Lead (TM) (1 position) must possess a BSc or higher qualification in Transport Planning & Management / Engineering

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More than 6 years of experience in Transport Data Analysis & Travel Demand Forecasting

• Survey Coordinator (1 position) must possess a BSc or higher qualification in Transport Planning & Management / Engineering

 

• Big Data Analyst (2 positions) must possess a BSc or higher qualification in Computer Science or Information Technology

 

Required Professional Competencies:

• Sound communication skills.
• Ability to interact with academic and administrative staff in the university and undergraduates.
• Ability to coordinate and facilitate the implementation of processes and procedures.
• Ability to analyze and resolve implementation issues effectively.

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a

CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 2.00 pm on 21^st November 2022. The phrase “Consultancy on Data Modeling & Validation  for passenger demand - AHEAD/RA3/DOR/UOM/ENG/DSC/CON/TOR 02” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

 

 

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Attorney Service for Filing a Patent in Vietnam as a National Phase of PCT - AHEAD/RA3/RIC/MRT/ENG/CSE/ISL/OVAA 15/ 01)

 

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for attorney services. The services include;

• Translation of patent document from English to Vietnamese
• Filing the patent application in Vietnam
• Claiming a single priority
• Request for examination of patent
• Publication of patent application

 

The main duties and responsibilities of the attorney service for Filing a Patent in Vietnam as National Phase through PCT will be to:

Key Task	Required Deliverable
Translation of patent document from English to Vietnamese	Translated document (4682 English Words & five diagrams with 380 image text spanning 23 pages)
Filing the application	Receipt of filing for 2 Independent claims
Claiming a single priority	Evidence that the priority date of filing the patent in Vietnam is 8th April 2021, which is the date of filing the patent in Sri Lanka.
Request for formality and substantive examination including search	Receipt of request.
Publication of application	Receipt of publication.

 

The duration of the service is for 01 months from the date of signing the contract.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the IntelliSense Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka now invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services along with a payment schedule clearly distinguishing between official and agency charges.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• License for working as an IP attorney
• Registration with National Patent Office of Vietnam
• A portfolio with at least five years of experience in patent filing

A firm will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested firms may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm SL time.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post including the profile of the firm, in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 2.00 pm SL time on 13^th May 2022. The phrase “Attorney Service for Filing a Patent in Vietnam as National Phase through PCT - AHEAD/RA3/RIC/MRT/ENG/CSE/ISL/OVAA 15/ 01” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

University Business Linkage Cell of University of Moratuwa has a vacancy for a Scientific Officer.

 

Please refer details in the attached notice for further information 

Deadline for submission of CVs - on or before 25th March 2022

 

 

RIC Project – Development of an Intelligent Camera with Real-Time Video Analytics System has vacancies for Research Engineers.

 

Please refer details in the attached notice for further information.

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

The services include;

This non-consultant agrees to provide a dataset accordance with the mentioned key tasks in the following description given by the project on An Analytical Framework for Digital Social Media in Sri Lanka which is under Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) operation.

The main duties and responsibilities of the non-Consultancy service will be to:

Preparation a Dataset from Public Twitter Data.

• Extract Sinhala and singlish Text posts, Image posts, and Video thumbnail posts.
• Provide a number of reactions (Like), number of Retweets, Quote Tweets, and comments for each post.
• Provide the original post ID for each post
• Extract comments (at least 5) of each post and number of comment reactions (Like)
• Extract comment replies and the number of reply reactions (Like).
• Provide timestamps of each post and comment.
• Provide demographic data (age, gender, location, ethnicity (if available)) of the post publisher
• Provide data in JSON format.
• Annotate the data according to their category and severity level of hateful content (definition will be given by the research team)
• Each post must label by at least 3 individuals
• Provide 3,000 posts biweekly.
• Profiles of the annotators should be provided after the selection process (Criteria will be provided by the research team)
• Maximum amount of annotation per person is 3000
• Provide the timestamp of each annotation which is done along with the labeled dataset.
• Annotator ID should be provided with each labelled post
• Assist the screening and training process of the annotators.
• Should be able to provide about 15,000 labelled twitter post items in total as above.
• Encouraged to maintain diversity of annotators
• Package the entire dataset according to the data dissemination standard provided by the research team.

 

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• The service provider should have equipped with necessary tools to collect and annotate the data such as scraping tools.
• The service provider should be able to demonstrate the tools if requested
• The prior experience of preparation such dataset is a mandatory requirement

 

Required Competencies:

• ability to extract Twitter data using software tools
• ability to label the data according to given criteria by the research team
• Save data according to the JSON format

 

A non-consultancy service provider will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested non-consultancy service providers may obtain further information and specifications at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 3.00 pm on 08^th December 2020. The phrase “Non Consultancy  to Prepare Social Media related Data  AHEAD/RA3/DOR/MRT/IT/NCON/03)” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of

 Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

The services include;

This non-consultant agrees to provide a dataset accordance with the mentioned key tasks in the following description given by the project on An Analytical Framework for Digital Social Media in Sri Lanka which is under Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) operation.

The main duties and responsibilities of the non-Consultancy service will be to:

Preparation of a dataset from Public YouTube Data.

• Extract Sinhala and singlish YouTube video thumbnails and relevant captions
• Provide a number of reactions (Like, Dislike), number of views, number of shares and comments for each Video.
• Provide the original Video URL for each video (Unique URL for a particular video)
• Extract comments (at least 5) of each video, number of comment reactions (Like, Dislike), and number of comment replies
• Extract comment replies and number of reply reactions (Like, Dislike).
• Provide timestamps of each video post and comments and replies.
• Provide demographic data (age, gender, location, ethnicity (if available)) of the video publisher
• Provide data in JSON format.
• Annotate the data according to their category and severity level of hateful content (definition will be given by the research team)
• Each video post must label by at least 3 individuals
• Profiles of the annotators should be provided after the selection process (Criteria will be provided by the research team)
• Maximum amount of annotation per person is 3000
• Provide the timestamp of each annotation which is done along with the labeled dataset.
• Provide 3,000 posts with thumbnails and labeled data biweekly.
• Annotator ID should be provided with each labeled post
• Assist the screening and training process of the annotators.
• Should be able to provide about 15,000 labelled video thumbnail post items in total as above.
• Encouraged to maintain diversity of annotators
• Package the entire dataset according to the data dissemination standard provided by the research team.

 

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• The service provider should have equipped with necessary tools to collect and annotate the data such as scraping tools.
• The service provider should be able to demonstrate the tools if requested
• The prior experience of preparation such dataset is a mandatory requirement

 

Required Competencies:

• ability to extract YouTube data using software tools
• ability to label the data according to given criteria by the research team
• Save data according to the JSON format

 

A non-consultancy service provider will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested non-consultancy service providers may obtain further information and specifications at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 3.00 pm on 08^th December 2020. The phrase “Non Consultancy  to Prepare Social Media related Data  AHEAD/RA3/DOR/MRT/IT/NCON/01)” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of

 Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

 

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consultancy on Data Fusion Framework Development for facilitating data usage across multiple applications)

AHEAD/RA3/DOR/UOM/ENG/DSC/CON/TOR 01)

 

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

• Identify the required and appropriate data-sources effectively.
• Pre-process data into an efficient standard format.
• Develop a data warehouse to store data coming from different sources.
• Implement a data extraction and query processing mechanism.
• Implement a data visualization platform.

 

The main duties and responsibilities of the Consultancy on Data Fusion Framework Development for facilitating data usage across multiple applications will be to:

Key Task		Required Deliverable
Data Fusion Framework	DW Tool	Implement Data warehouse management system and select suitable ETL tools.
	Data Lake	Implement a data lake to store raw data from different sources for use of data scientists (Satellite Data, Video Data, Bus Ticketing Data, Accident Data, Traffic Data, Parking Data, Goods Transfer Data, Land use Maps)
	OSRM Map Data	Collect OSRM map data.
	Map-based Data	Collect traffic data, POI, etc. data Frequently collect traffic layer data Collect POI data Process traffic data based on corridors
	CDR Pre-processing	Process CDR data using Spark. Filter user based on their spatial-temporal behavior Identify load sharing effected record
	Mobile App data	Collect CDR, GPS, Survey and Travel purpose data. Process CDR data based on their spatial-temporal behavior Analyze CDR, GPS, Survey and Travel purpose data
	HVS Data	Already collected data will be entered to the data warehouse
	Data processing	Data processing using Apache Spark. Identify user home/work location Analyze user travel behavior
	Data Warehouse	Data integration Data warehouse management Data warehouse optimization
	API Implementation	APIs will be created for 3rd parties to input and extract data
Data Visualization Platform	Query Processor	Simple and intuitive query method will be implemented keep users in mind who have less knowledge in data processing.
	Report Generation	Graph based Report Generation Heatmap based Report Generation
	Website	3rd party data visualization website

 

 

The duration of the service is for 01 year from the date of signing the contract.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the DataSEARCH, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• The individual involved in this project must possess a BSc (Hons) in Engineering or related higher education qualifications.
• Requires working experience in a related field.
• Expertise in Spark based big data analysis.
• Experience in data warehouse implementation and management.
• Prior experience in data mining related projects will be welcomed.

 

Required Professional Competencies:

• Sound communication skills.
• Ability to interact with academic and administrative staff in the university and undergraduates.
• Ability to coordinate and facilitate the implementation of processes and procedures.
• Ability to analyze and resolve implementation issues effectively.

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a

CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 2.00 pm on 15^th October 2020. The phrase “Consultancy on Data Fusion Framework Development for facilitating data usage across multiple applications AHEAD/RA3/DOR/UOM/ENG/DSC/CON/TOR 01” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

 

 

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consultancy on Inter-Faculty Resource Sharing, Faculty of Business AHEAD/RA2/ELTALESE/UNI/FAC/CON/12)

 

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

• Establish an Inter-Faculty Teaching Unit under the FoB with procedures and processes for inter-faculty teaching and learning.
• Propose inter-faculty minor degree programs to improve the employability of undergraduates.
• Propose suitable performance evaluation mechanisms on delivery and assessment of inter-faculty minor degree programs.

 

 

The main duties and responsibilities of the Consultancy on Inter-Faculty Resource Sharing will be to:

Key Task	Required Deliverable
Establishing an Inter-Faculty Teaching Unit under the FoB	Proposing ideal values, mission and goals for Interfaculty Teaching Unit of the FoB
	Developing a measurable and comprehensive framework to promote inter-faculty resource sharing at UoM
	Preparing a manual to communicate procedures and processes on interfaculty resource sharing to the relevant stakeholders of UoM
	Training the academic staff and academic supportive staff on delivery of cross faculty teaching
	Proposal on upgrading staff facilities relevant for inter-faculty teaching
Developing cross-faculty minor degree programs via curriculum development and revision	Identify appropriate discipline minors for major degrees using cross-faculty and industry stakeholder feedback.
	Propose the sets of skills required by the employers to recruit the undergraduates through surveys and interactions with the employers.
	Identify the skills supported the undergraduates to be recruited for employment
	Develop the curriculum and content for each minor using cross-faculty stakeholder feedback.
	Identify relevant experts and guide/ initiate them on Teaching and Learning resources development
Consultancy on implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes of the interfaculty teaching	Facilitate implementation the developed curriculum and content for each minor by providing guidelines the relevant academic staff and academic support staff.
	Develop a mechanism for encouraging undergraduates to get enrolled for minor degrees through awareness programs / workshops and seminars for undergraduates
	Introduce a mechanism to periodical monitoring and evaluation teaching, learning and assessment on the introduced cross-faculty.
	Introduce a mechanism to periodically assess the impact of minor degree programmes on the employability
	Provide a set of guidelines to ensure continuation and effectiveness of the minor programmes.

 

 

The duration of the service is for 02 years from the date of signing the contract. The service provider is expected to conduct 54 sessions (three-hours) during the stipulated period.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the Faculty of Business, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of ten years of relevant experience in serving different types of faculties (e.g. Engineering and Business faculties) and inter-faculty teaching and assessment in the higher education sector.
• Relevant graduate and post graduate qualifications (Preferably a doctoral degree)
• Extensive experience in program curriculum and content development in business allied areas.
• Candidates with prior experience in the similar capacity or in a state university will be given priority.

 

Required Professional Competencies:

• Ability to lead and manage advisory team of academic and academic supportive staff in developing curriculum and course content in a university environment.
• Ability to craft market oriented cross faculty minor degree programmes for the undergraduates of the university.
• Ability to initiate and facilitate implementation of processes and procedures in the inter-faculty teaching unit.
• Ability to analyse and resolve implementation issues effectively.
• Ability to interact with senior academic and administrative staff in the university and undergraduates.
• Ability to guide successfully delivery of the module content to the undergraduates.
• Extensive knowledge on the subject content and the practical applications of the same

 

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a

CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 3.00 pm on 10^th July 2020. The phrase “Consultancy on Inter-Faculty Resource Sharing, Faculty of Business AHEAD/RA2/ELTALESE/UNI/FAC/CON/12)” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

 

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of

 Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

Design & Construction of Lecture Halls & Student Services

Contract/ Bid No. :(AHEAD/MD/RA2/ELTA-ELSE/UOM/WORKS/188/NCB/001)

The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has received a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) towards the cost of AHEAD Project and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payments under the Contract for Design and Construction of Lecture Halls and Student Services at University of Moratuwa.

 

The Chairman, Departmental Procurement Committee (Major) on behalf of the University of Moratuwa now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified firms for Design and Construction of Lecture Halls and Student Services at University of Moratuwa.

Vacancy for Project Assistant at Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (ENTC), the University of Moratuwa for RIC Project - Development of an Intelligent Camera with Real-Time Video Analytics System

Deadline for submission of CVs - on or before - 12th March 2020.

Please email your CV to Coordinator - Dr. Ranga Rodrigo at ranga@uom.lk

 

 

 

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project  University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the Non Consultancy services  to Prepare Social Media Related Data.

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consultancy on English Language Skill Development, Faculty of Business AHEAD/RA2/ELTALESE/UNI/FAC/CON/03)

 

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

• Designing of a module plan for the English Language Skill Development Programme.
• Develop and implement a method to diagnose English language skills of undergraduates.
• Providing consultancy in setting-up the writing, reading, speaking and accent training clinic.
• Delivery of lectures and training to the undergraduates on the set modules.
• Establishment and the delivery of training programmes to enhance student productions and improvisations in English medium to enhance socio-emotional skills.

 

 

The main duties and responsibilities of the Consultancy on English Language Skill Development will be to:

Key Task	Required Deliverable
Design and development of the program plan	Prepare a 2-year work plan for the Business English Communication Skills Development Programme
	Determine the program outline and the expected outcomes
Develop a method to diagnose English language skills of undergraduates	Identify suitable methods to distinguish the language capabilities of the students and categorize.
	Outline language skills development programmes for each category of the students
Set-up a writing, reading, speaking and accent training Clinic	Provide program plans for writing, reading, speaking and accent training clinic
	Successful delivery of content to the students via lectures and training
	Supervision of the training outcomes
	Ascertain the evaluation process of the students
Student productions and improvisations in English medium to enhance socio-economic skills	Identify and implement appropriate training programs for the students to enhance socio economic skills through language

 

 

The duration of the service is for 02 years from the date of signing the contract. The service provider is expected to conduct 72 sessions (three-hours) during the stipulated period.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the Faculty of Business, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of ten years of lecturing experience in the education sector and adult training
• Relevant graduate and post graduate qualifications (Preferably in English Language)
• Extensive experience in language training and development programmes

Candidates with prior experience in the similar capacity or in a state university will be given priority

 

Required Professional Competencies:

• Ability to lead and manage the team of Business English Communication Skills Development programme
• Ability to improvise effective training programmes for the undergraduates
• Ability to coordinate and facilitate implementation of processes and procedures
• Ability to analyse and resolve implementation issues effectively
• Ability to interact with senior academic and administrative staff in the university and undergraduates.
• Ability to successfully deliver the module content to the undergraduates
• Extensive knowledge on the subject content and the practical applications of the same

 

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent through registered post along with a

CV in a sealed envelope to the address below, on or before 3.00 pm on 05^th February 2020. The phrase “Consultancy on English Language Skill Development, Faculty of Business AHEAD/RA2/ELTALESE/UNI/FAC/CON/03)” should be marked on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.

 

 

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of

 Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

 

Invention Disclosure Form (IDF), the form which is used by the University Business Linkage Cell (UBLC), to gather basic information of your invention, and enter into the UBLC database, to provide you the necessary support for commercialization and/or Protect your IP

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consultant for Industrial Training Division of Faculty of Business AHEAD/RA2/ELTALESE/UNI/FAC/CON/02)

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

• Defining and establishing procedures and processes for Industrial Training Division.
• Preparation of relevant documentation and formats for the Industrial Training Division.
• Training the staff of Industrial Training Division.
• Establishing faculty and industry link for employability, internship and projects.
• Providing guidance on Industry Forums/ FICB.
• Consultancy on monitoring and evaluation processes of the Industrial Training Division

The duration of the service is for 2.5 years from the date of signing the contract.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the Faculty of Business, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• At least ten years of managerial experience in the corporate sector in Human Resource and Talent Acquisition Function.
• Suitable graduate and/or post graduate qualifications. (Person with a MBA is preferred.)
• Suitable professional qualification in Human Resource Management is preferred.
• Candidates with prior experience in Training and HRM consultancy will be given priority.

Required Professional Competencies:

• Ability to lead and manage Industry Training Division.
• Ability to coordinate and facilitate implementation of processes and procedures
• Ability to analyze and resolve implementation issues effectively
• Ability to interact with senior academic and administrative staff in the university and industry personnel.
• Ability to function effectively in a team environment inspiring trust and cooperation of other team members.
• Strong communication, negotiating skills and good interpersonal relations.
• High level of proficiency in written and spoken English.

 

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered along with the CV to the address below by 03^rd January 2020.

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of

 Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension 1621 & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

 

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation

University of Moratuwa

 

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Architectural Consultancy of Faculty of Business AHEAD/RA2/ELTALESE/UNI/FAC/CON/01)

 

The Government of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services. The services include;

• Providing advice on architectural activities for refurbishment/setup physical infrastructure of the teaching and learning facilities
• Ensuring lighting, ventilation, safety and sustainability in the designing facilities
• Providing the relevant detailed architectural designs
• Developing & designing all architectural drawings; in 2D and 3D formats

 

The duration of the service is for 01 year from the date of signing the contract.

The Director, Operations Technical Secretariat, AHEAD Project on behalf of the Faculty of Business, University of Moratuwa now invites eligible individuals to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested individuals must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• A bachelors’ degree in Architect from a University recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC)
• Candidates with Chartered qualification
• Post graduate qualifications (Person with MPhil or higher is preferred)
• At least six years’ experience in architectural activities
• Candidates with prior experience in consultancy will be given priority

 

Required Professional Competencies:

• Strong analytical skills with an ability to evaluate and propose strategic architectural solutions
• Expert knowledge of building products, construction details, regulations and quality standards
• Strong imagination and the ability think and create in three dimensions
• Professional qualifications in manual and auto cad draughtsman ship
• Communication and project management skills
• Ability to work independently, within the framework of the project’s requirements

 

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Government of Sri Lanka’s Guidelines on Selection and Employment of Consultants-2007.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 8.30am – 4.00pm.

Expressions of interest must be delivered along with the CV to the address below by 03^rd of January 2020.

Attn:

Deputy Director- Procurement,

Operations Technical Secretariat,

AHEAD Project,

First Floor, FGS Building,

University of

 Moratuwa.

 

Tel: 011-2640051 Extension 1621 & 1892

Fax: 011-2651699

Supply and Delivery of Gaming Type High Performance Desktop Computers

Supply, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of Complete Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) System with Required Accessories

Proposals are called from all faculties seeking financial assistance for the enhancement of student enrollment in (a) Technology, Engineering, IT, Medicine, Architecture, Quantity Surveying etc. and employment oriented innovative new degree programmes in (b) Science, Humanities and Social Sciences including Management.

Financial assistance will be provided to procure equipment, carry out minor renovations (worth less than LKR 20 million) and/or new constructions (less than LKR 150 million). Note that the selection of proposals for the award of financial assistance will be based purely and strongly on the increase in student enrollment numbers and the justifications provided.

Please submit your proposals under the following headings in a report not exceeding 10 pages (12 Times New Roman and 1 1/2 line spacing ) on or before 30th November 2018 in hard copy (to the OMST) and soft copy (email to : management.ahead@gmail.com)