UNHCR Lebanon invites highly qualified and experienced vendors to submit offers for the digitization of UNHCR’s individual refugee and asylum-seeker case files in the Mount Lebanon Field Office.
1. Background
In 2017, UNHCR Lebanon has initiated a project for the digitization of individual refugee and asylum-seeker case files into PDFs (Personal Document Format) with a resolution of 300 DPI (dots per inch). Files vary in terms of the total number of pages, but based on initial trials using a multifunctional scanner, most files can be retrieved, scanned, named, and saved in 10 minutes. The files and documents to digitize can be divided into two categories:
- Legacy files (already existing files at the start of the digitization project): 40,544 files in Bekaa Field Office and 219 files in Beirut Office.
- Newly created files (files that were created after the start of the digitization project but were not digitized): 13,807 files in Bekaa Field Office and 3,100 files in South Field Office.
If you are interested in proceeding to finalize a formal, written Agreement under the scope set out above, you are kindly invited to submit your proposals as indicated below:
The proposals should be submitted by email to LEBBETENDERS@unhcr.org.
Please clearly state the following in subject line of the email:
- RFP/2021/015
- Company name
- Type of Offer: Technical or Financial
- Number of e-mails sent (for example: 1/2, 2/2)
Please follow the below instructions for submitting the offers via email:
- Format: PDF files (Preferred);
- Email size must not exceed 10 MB;
- For big attachment over 10MB please split into multiple numbered emails (e.g. 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3);
- No document downloading links are accepted. All documents must be attached with the email;
- If you are uploading number of small files, please move the files into a “ZIP folder” and send a zip file instead of each file individually;
- The Technical offers and financial offers must be submitted in separate emails;
- All files must be free of viruses and not corrupted;
- UNHCR reserves the right to accept or reject any offers that is not following the email submission instructions;
- No other person from UNHCR to be copied on the tender emails otherwise the supplier may be disqualified.