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Information Village

Information Village
Partners and subcontracting

You won the work. We can build it.

Consultancies, agencies and bid teams come to us for the same reason: they can win the contract, and they need someone who will actually deliver the software. We have run Government and NGO systems in Uganda since 2017, and we are comfortable being the engineering half of somebody else's contract.

2017

delivering software in Uganda

25+

production systems on go.ug and NGO domains

394

security incidents handled autonomously in one 24-hour window

Kampala

registered, resident and tax-compliant

Three ways this usually works

Find the one that matches your situation. If none of them quite fit, the call is still worth having.

01

You won the contract and need an executor

You signed with a donor, a ministry or a client, the deliverable is a platform, and your team does not build software. The clock has already started.

What we do

  • →Take the technical scope off the contract and turn it into a working system
  • →Work under your name or ours, whichever the client expects
  • →Deliver in your reporting rhythm, so your progress reports write themselves
  • →Hand over the code, the servers and the runbook at the end

What you keep

You keep the client relationship, the contract and the margin you negotiated. We invoice you, not them, unless you want it the other way round.

02

You can win it but need delivery on the proposal

You have the sector credibility and the relationships to win, and the evaluator wants to see who will build the thing before they will score you.

What we do

  • →Supply named CVs, past-performance evidence and referees for the technical team
  • →Write the technical approach, architecture and delivery plan sections
  • →Price the build honestly so the bid does not win on a number we cannot hold
  • →Commit in writing, so the commitment survives evaluation

What you keep

You lead the bid and own the client. We are the delivery partner named in it, and we only bill if you win.

03

You need a Uganda-registered partner

The terms of reference require a locally registered firm, local content, or a resident team, and you are based somewhere else.

What we do

  • →Meet the local registration and tax requirements in our own name
  • →Provide registration, tax and compliance documents for the bid pack
  • →Hold the local presence the terms of reference ask for
  • →Run the delivery on the ground, in the client's time zone

What you keep

You bring the sector expertise the terms of reference score first. We bring the registration and the build. Which of us leads depends on what the evaluation actually rewards, and we will tell you honestly which way round gives the bid a better chance.

How it usually runs

01

A call, before anything is written

Thirty minutes on what the contract actually requires. If the fit is wrong we will say so on that call rather than three weeks into a proposal.

02

A written scope and a fixed price

What we will build, what it costs, how long it takes, and what we need from you. One page, not twenty.

03

Delivery you can see

A staging environment from week one, so you and your client watch it get built instead of waiting for a demo.

04

Handover that means handover

Code, servers, documentation and a working knowledge of how to run it. We stay on for support if you want it, and it still works if you do not.

Compliance documents for your bid pack

We are registered in Uganda, tax-registered and tax-compliant, with a resident team and a registered office in Kampala. We do not publish the numbers themselves, because four of them are enough for someone to put our name on a bid we never saw. Request them and the certificates come back the same working day, by email, to whoever is assembling the submission.

  • →Certificate of incorporation and company registration
  • →Tax identification and a current tax clearance position
  • →Registered office and postal address for the bid forms
  • →Named CVs, referees and past-performance evidence for the technical team

What we will not do

Worth saying up front, because it saves both of us a proposal cycle.

  • We will not put our name to a proposal whose technical team we cannot actually field. If the terms of reference need four specialists we do not have, saying so early is worth more to you than an unconvincing submission.

  • We will not lead a bid purely as a registration flag of convenience. If we carry the contract we carry the delivery risk, so we want to be doing the work, not lending a certificate.

  • We do not take work we cannot start. If our next window is eight weeks out, you will hear that before you plan around us.

Questions partners ask

Will you work under our brand?

Yes. White-label delivery is normal for us. The client sees your team; we are in the background. We will ask for a reference we can use privately with future partners, not publicly.

Can you provide CVs and past performance for a bid pack?

Yes, with real named people and systems that are live and can be opened in a browser. We would rather you submit something a procurement officer can verify than a polished document they cannot.

What happens if we do not win?

On proposal support you owe us nothing. We take that risk with you, because a partner who charges for losing bids is not a partner.

Do you take equity or revenue share instead of fees?

Rarely, and only where we are involved from the start and believe in the thing. The default is a fixed price for a defined scope.

How quickly can you answer a bid deadline?

For technical sections and CVs, a few days. For a full delivery plan and pricing, about a week. If you are inside seven days of submission and starting from nothing, we will usually tell you to sit this one out.

Tell us what you are bidding on

Send the terms of reference and the deadline. We will read them and tell you honestly whether we can help and whether the bid is worth your time. If the answer is no, you will get that in a sentence, not a meeting.

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