Health Financing Database Specialist Tender, Switzerland - 28814076

Procurement Summary

Country : Switzerland

Summary : Health Financing Database Specialist

Deadline : 10 Dec 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 28814076

Document Ref. No. : TGF-18-115

Competition : ICB

Financier : Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFFATM)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA (“THE GLOBAL FUND”)
Global Health Campus | Chemin du Pommier 40 1218 Grand-Saconnex | Geneva
Switzerland
Email :geraldine.mougamadou@theglobalfund.org
URL :https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/

Tender Details

Request for proposals are invited for Health Financing Database Specialist.

(1) Bidders intending to submit a proposal must be invited to the RFP and thus any request for a Supplier ID should be made at least 48 hours before the RFP closing date.

1. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the “Global Fund”) now invites proposals for the above-captioned Project.

2. The Statement of Work for the Project is attached hereto as Attachment A.

3. The Global Fund will evaluate all proposals received in response to this Request for Proposals (RFP) in accordance with the Evaluation Criteria in Attachment B.

4. The requirements and general information regarding the RFP submission are attached hetero as Attachment C.

5. Terms and Conditions is attached hereto as Attachment D.

6. This RFP is in line with the Global Fund-s Procurement Regulations (2017, as amended from time to time), which may be found at https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/businessopportunities/.

The following are integral parts of this RFP:

a. The Request for Proposal Solicitation Rules (2015, as amended from time to time), which may be found at: https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/business-opportunities/;

b. The Policy on Ethics and Conflict of Interest for Global Fund Institutions (2002, as amended from time to time), which may be found at:https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/policies-guidelines-templates/governancepolicies/;

c. The Code of Conduct for Suppliers (2009, as amended from time to time), which may be found at: https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/policies-guidelines-templates/governancepolicies/;

d. The Sanctions Panel Procedures Relating to the Code of Conduct for Suppliers (2014, as amended from time to time), which may be found at https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/policies-guidelines-templates/governancepolicies/; and

e. The Global Fund Terms and Conditions of Purchase of Services (27 March 2018, as amended from time to time), which will also be an integral part of any contract resulting from this solicitation, and which may be found at https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/business-opportunities/. Submitting an proposal in response to this RFP constitutes an acceptance of the terms indicated herein and of the terms of each of these documents, including the Global Fund Terms and Conditions of Purchase of Goods and Services, and the Global Fund reserves the right to reject the proposal of any entity or individual, as the case may be, that fails or refuses to comply with, or accept, such terms.

7. This RFP shall not be construed as a contract or a commitment of any kind. This RFP in no way obligates the Global Fund to award a contract, nor does it commit the Global Fund to pay any costs or expenses incurred in the preparation or submission of proposals.

TGF Sourcing Application (The platform)

1. For audit and efficiency purposes, this RFP process is being managed electronically, and bidders are required to submit their proposals in the following URL for Sourcing Application: https://access.theglobalfund.org/.

2. Please use the attached Guidance Notes - “Responding to an RFP/RFQ/RFI in the TGF Sourcing Application, SUPPLIER INSTRUCTION.

3. Proposals must be submitted in TGF Sourcing Application, and received by the Global Fund by the RFP Closing Time and at the RFP Closing Date, all as indicated in the above RFP Information Table.

4. In case, you do not have a Supplier Id in TGF Sourcing Application, please send an email with sufficient notice to geraldine.mougamadou@theglobalfund.org with the following title in the subject:

? “TGF-18-115” - Request for login user id creation in TGF Sourcing / iSupplier portal - “Put your organization name”.

5. Unless otherwise indicated, proposals shall be submitted in pdf and should be divided in two separate folders, one containing your cost proposal and one containing your technical proposal.

The subject line of your attachment must be labelled as follows:
? TGF-18-115 - Your name - technical proposal
? TGF-18-115 - Your name - cost proposal

6. All communications with regard to this RFP shall be in writing and sent through the TGF Sourcing Application platform using the online discussion as indicated in the above RFP Information Table.

7. Any communication between a Bidder and the Global Fund regarding this RFP, which is not through the designated channel (https://access.theglobalfund.org/), may invalidate such Bidder-s proposal to this RFP.

Role summary • Working in collaboration with relevant Secretariat teams and external partners, the Health Financing Database Specialist is responsible for taking the lead on finding IT solutions for developing a SQL/relational database for the existing health financing data. Develop and roll-out guidance and tools for countries to collect and report domestic health financing. • Review the Global Fund-s existing, Excel-based database for tracking domestic health financing, as well as the internal Secretariat data system for grant management. Along with Secretariat IT experts and internal end-users, lead the analysis and integration of the domestic health financing database into the internal Secretariat data system for grant management. Manage the IT solutions, as needed.

Key responsibilities The Health Financing Database Specialist will have the following main responsibilities: • Manage the entire business intelligence process from identifying an IT solutions partner, active participation in the design of the database to the final execution of the platform. Engage with relevant teams within and outside the Secretariat, including other partners on harmonizing health expenditures. • Utilizes in-depth professional knowledge and experience to advocate and collaborate with relevant Secretariat teams and external partners, particularly WHO, UNAIDS, USAID, and other disease partners to institutionalize effective and efficient mechanisms to support collection, validation, and management of health financing data. • Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analysis on a variety of internal and external data to support strategic information requirements across the Secretariat; including monitoring of ‘key performance indicators-, corporate reports, strategic papers, briefings and analytic notes • Engage and/or lead cutting edge health financing initiatives with technical partners and countries in light of Global Fund-s Sustainability, Transition, and Cofinancing policy. • Shares knowledge, best practices and lessons learned across countries, articulating ideas verbally and in writing in a clear and compelling way across audiences of varied levels. • Support the participation of Global Fund staff members working on STC, health financing and others as relevant, in global working groups/forums to align the Global Fund-s domestic health financing data with that of other institutions and donors working on transition planning, e.g. the Multi-Donor Trust Fund on Integrating Donor-Financed Programs. • Develops approaches, normative guidance, tools, metrics, and indicators to support implementation of counterpart financing and sustainability policies of the Global Fund, thereby contributing to the capacity building efforts of Secretariat; and develop a streamline process to manage health financing technical assistance requests emerging from country teams. • Collaborate and work with other teams and their existing dashboards. • Collaborate and work with strategic partners on the development and refinement of software tools related to co-financing including resource tracking and health financing.

Qualifications • Required: Advanced University Degree (PhD desirable), with strong quantitative skills in large data management • Required: Specialization in public health, public finance, or health economics. • Required: Prior experience in developing health financing/ costing tools and databases is a plus. • Desirable: Conversational French/Spanish language skills Skills/competencies: • In-depth knowledge of existing databases and costing/financing tools, and demonstrated ability to analyze and draw conclusions from such data bases. • Significant experience analyzing complex datasets; experience in modeling • Knowledge of IT systems in sufficient depth to lead discussions among IT experts in the analysis and database management. • Experience and success with implementing IT solutions for health financing activities including resource tracking and costing. • Strong relationships with strategic partners, including WHO, USAID, UNAIDS, GMGF etc. • Experience with organizational change, including introduction of new processes into a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. • Ability to work with outside stakeholders at a global level to participate in negotiation and planning of systems alignment among tools and processes for tracking domestic health financing data. • Sound judgment with ability to apply strategic thinking and provide high-quality advice and identify based on complex analysis • Superior skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis, strategic thinking, and results orientation. • Extensive knowledge and skills in methodologies for tracking health expenditure, costing and budgeting. • Ability to translate technical and cross-country knowledge into practical applications and solutions • Builds strong, mutually beneficial, partnerships based on trust with internal and external stakeholders • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Computer skills: Visual Basic for Applications programming; SQL database management; Advanced Excel • Programming languages: R; STATA; SAS; and Oracle Crystal Ball

Place of Performance: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Global Health Campus | Chemin du Pommier 40 1218 Grand-Saconnex | Geneva, Switzerland

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