Supply Chain Capacity Development and Organizational Strengthening Tender, Cote d'Ivoire - 35166581

Procurement Summary

Country : Cote d'Ivoire

Summary : Supply Chain Capacity Development and Organizational Strengthening

Deadline : 16 Sep 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 35166581

Document Ref. No. : TGF-19-059

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
Abidjan Email : geraldine.mougamadou@theglobalfund.org
Cote d'Ivoire
Email :geraldine.mougamadou@theglobalfund.org
URL :https://www.theglobalfund.org/

Tender Details

Request for proposals are invited for Supply Chain Capacity Development and Organizational Strengthening.

(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/;

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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-19-059” - 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-19-059 - Your name – technical proposal • TGF-19-059 - 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. ATTACHMENT A STATEMENT OF WORK

Supply Chain Capacity development and Organizational strengthening


English Version

Although much progress has been made in controlling HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the burden of these diseases is still considerable and it continues to affect the most vulnerable and marginalized, especially women, children and adolescents. It is therefore imperative to achieve better results in order to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to ensure health for all and the dynamism of communities. To this end, it is essential that the supply chain for health products be strengthened in order to ensure universal access to health care. In September 2018, the Global Fund financed a supply chain diagnosis to initiate innovative and transformative projects with a sustainable and measurable impact on health system strengthening. The findings of the report in relation to human resources management can be summarized as follows: • The human resources involved in supply chain management in Côte d’Ivoire have inadequate strategies and few adequate tools for sustainable capacity development. • The country`s ambitions to strengthen the health product supply chain could be limited by a shortage of skilled and motivated staff. It is therefore necessary to develop an integrated human resources capacity-development strategy to ensure a skilled, recognized and sustained workforce.

Nevertheless, Côte d’Ivoire does have a directory of health care jobs and skills developed in 2016 by the Human Resources Directorate of the Ministry of Public Health (MSHP). The evaluation and revision of this directory will also be proposed, specifically in relation to the supply chain for pharmaceuticals.

Furthermore, some partners have already begun to revise some of the training curricula and consider distance learning through the development of an e-learning platform, in collaboration with the National Institute for Public Health (INSP), the National Pharmaceutical Development Program (PNDAP) and the National Strategic Plan.

During the diagnosis, it was suggested that a four-phase strategy be developed:

1. Engage, 2. Design, 3. Implement and 4. Sustain.

As illustrated in several reports, including Health Employment and Economic Growth: An Evidence Base, published by WHO (2017), logistics management systems are one of the pillars of national health programs. The continued availability of quality health products requires effective organization and effective human resources management, from the central level to the most remote dispensing centers. Human resources are one of the foundations of any health system and remain a key factor in improving the overall health status of a population.

A supply chain requires involved managers and a sufficient number of skilled, responsible,
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motivated and independent staff at all levels of the organizational structure. The Global Fund has committed to support Côte d’Ivoire in strengthening its human resources dedicated to public supply chain management by mobilizing targeted technical assistance, tools and training tailored to the needs identified, at all levels of the health system. The proposal is to strengthen the organizational structures dedicated to supply chain management using the Engage-Design-Implement-Sustain (EDIS) approach: “EntreprendreConcevoir-Mettre en œuvre-Maintenir” in French. This model is guided by a process inspired by the Theory of Change developed by People that Deliver as part of a United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF) initiative implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The model has already been implemented in various Global Fund grant beneficiary countries with promising results.

The model is based on some basic principles:

• engaging with supply chain managers and empowering them to design, implement and guide the change; • managing talent proactively by offering adequate training opportunities for progression to higher hierarchical levels; • supporting countries to manage and benefit from public-private partnerships; • deploying employees where they are most useful, according to their skills; • sustainably investing in human capital at all levels to strengthen key elements of the organization; • motivating employees and creating an organizational culture of continuous improvement (lean organizational structure); • having a systematic and institutionalized workforce development plan instead of fragmented training; • having widely available practical tools and processes; • considering change management as a critical aspect of organization strengthening, taking into account the complexity of any change and the fact that it requires significant sacrifices at the individual level when it comes to adopting new perspectives and new behaviors, and breaking down deeply rooted habits.
At the end of the Engage and Design phases, the Organization Strengthening Specialist will join at the Implement phase, collaborating with various national bodies and all partners involved in supply chain strengthening to:
• reconfirm the backing and support of the national directorates involved and the availability of the resources required for the change; • eliminate obstacles that c

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