REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)

Pedagogical, Operational, and Program Partnership for Deploying Reading
Assessment and Remediation Tool for the State of Tamil Nadu
Opening date of RFP: 17/10/2025 Closing Date of RFP: 29/10/2025 

Wadhwani AI is the flagship Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative of LEHS, a charitable organization dedicated to building equitable and sustainable systems that bring modern technology to underserved populations in India. Our core mission is to develop, deploy, and rigorously evaluate AI-powered solutions for social impact across domains, including healthcare, agriculture, governance, and education. In alignment with our objective to support projects of national and social significance, Wadhwani AI promotes the integration of cutting-edge technologies like AI into the Indian mainstream systems. We execute this through strategic partnerships with State and National Governments, apex institutions, international agencies, and key ecosystem contributors.This Request for Proposal (RFP) has been issued by Wadhwani AI, under the umbrella of LEHS, to find a dedicated partner to execute a critical project in the field of education in the State of Tamil Nadu. 

A significant number of students in Indian public schools (Grades 1–8) lack foundational reading skills, impacting their academic progress across all subjects. This challenge is compounded by the absence of scalable, data-driven tools for assessing reading in diverse languages and for identifying specific proficiency levels to enable targeted interventions. In response, Wadhwani AI has developed and successfully deployed an AI-powered tool for Reading Assessment and Remediation designed to help teachers achieve universal attainment of foundational reading skills. The tool has three components:

• Assessment: The tool leverages highly contextualized and fine-tuned Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models to analyze word and paragraph reading in different languages.
• Diagnostics: It generates key performance metrics, identifies specific reading miscues, and applies an intelligent layer to categorize students into reading levels. This provides teachers with actionable insights necessary for planning targeted classroom interventions.
• Remediation: We plan to integrate a cutting-edge Generative AI module to produce practice worksheets tailored for each student cohort. This will provide teachers with customizable, context-specific remediation materials for use in the classroom.
  
  

To date, Wadhwani AI has successfully assessed over 7 million students in two major states - Gujarat and Rajasthan, with this tool. Wadhwani AI is now adapting and contextualizing the tool for deployment in the state of Tamil Nadu, covering two essential languages: Tamil and English. We are seeking an organization with a deep understanding of, and active engagement with, the Tamil Nadu state education system to engage in a comprehensive Pedagogical, Operational, and Program Partnership. This collaboration is essential to ensure the solution is academically rigorous, operationally sound, and seamlessly integrated into the state's educational ecosystem. 

The overarching goal of this partnership is to successfully design, deploy, and integrate Wadhwani AI’s Reading Assessment and Remediation Tool (RART) within the Tamil Nadu state education system. This collaboration aims to achieve universal attainment of foundational reading skills among primary and upper primary students. 

The partner organization will be responsible for jointly achieving the following objectives:

• Establish Program Credibility & Reach: Seamlessly onboard Wadhwani AI into the Tamil Nadu school ecosystem, securing the necessary approvals and organizational buy-in for successful large-scale deployment, and parental consent for each student assessed in compliance with DPDP ACT 2023.
• Ensure Pedagogical Rigor: Validate and contextualize the RART’s reading assessment, diagnostic, and remediation modules to align perfectly with the Tamil Nadu State Curriculum and the specific challenges of learning Tamil and English in the state.
• Guarantee Data Quality: Execute a rigorous, large-scale data collection and annotation program to train and fine-tune the AI models, ensuring the tool’s accuracy and diagnostic strength for Tamil and English. 
• Drive Teacher Adoption & Usage: Conduct effective teacher training and provide on-ground support to ensure educators can confidently utilize the RART’s assessment, diagnostics, and Generative AI-powered remediation modules.
• Achieve Sustainable Scale: Successfully pilot and deploy the RART across schools in alignment with the state’s academic cycle, laying the groundwork for integration and long-term program sustainability.
  
  

Language: Tamil & English 

Contract Duration: The initial contract duration will be one year, with potential for renewal based on satisfactory performance and mutual agreement. Submission Details  

• Both Technical and Financial Proposals must be submitted electronically to rfp.lehs@wadhwaniai.org separately. The email's subject line must contain the reference number and title of the RFP: Pedagogical, Operational and Program Partnership for deploying Reading Assessment and Remediation Tool for the State of Tamil Nadu (Name of Agency).
• Financial Proposal must be password protected.
• All documents should be in PDF format.
• Submission Deadline: [October 29, 2025 – 23:59 Hours]
• Any proposals received after the deadline for submission of proposals prescribed in the timeline of this document are liable to be rejected.

For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below. 

Job Email ID:

rfp.lehs(at)wadhwaniai.org

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RFP for Program Partnership for Tamil Nadu state.pdf